Research Associate

TIANYU (EDWIN) ZHENG

New York, NY ***** 717-***-**** ********@*******.*** www.linkedin.com/in/tianyuzheng1997 EDUCATION

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS New York, NY

• MS, Quantitative Finance May 2021

• Relevant Coursework: Advanced Modeling, Fixed Income Securities, C++ for Finance, Risk Management NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York, NY

• BS, Economics and Mathematics May 2019

• Minor in Computer Science

• Relevant Coursework: Microeconomic Analysis, Money and Banking, Urban Economics, Data Structures EXPERIENCE

GREENPOINT FINANCIAL New York, NY

Associate November 2020–Present

• Project manager of the development of GreenCap. GreenCap offered a method for financial institutions to adjust for the impact of environmental changes that will inevitably occur due to the emission of greenhouse gasses in the future by taking how green the collaterals and the target project of the loans are into consideration for the calculation of the capital requirement. GreenCap competed in the Finastra “Hack to the Future” hackathon under the “Social Impact” category and reached the finalist stage

• A vital member of a team responsible for creating LIBOR360, a website intended to serve as an internet hub for LIBOR sunset and SOFR transition related information; collected data on LIBOR related data and visualized the information

• Analyzed LIBOR related news and academic publications and evaluated research papers ALLIED MILLENNIAL PARTNERS New York, NY

Analyst June 2018–September 2018

• Evaluated companies via various valuation multiples/ratio analysis and DCF with Excel and R software; wrote detailed analysis reports to present findings and made recommendations based on results

• Conducted thorough industrial research to identify proper investment focus and collaborated with brokers to construct investment portfolios

• Slashed the time cost significantly for other interns and analysts by writing a web crawler program with Python to pull contact information of individuals from yellow page sites and storing that information into an Excel file for employees to use for cold calling

• Saved cost through implementing the program by eliminating the need to buy contact information cards from third party companies and improved efficiency by being able to quickly gather new sets of contacts once old ones were used up

CHINA NATURE ASSET MANAGEMENT CO. LTD. Shanghai, China Analyst June 2017–September 2017

• Led a group of three interns in constructing evaluation models to evaluate various companies and creating client-facing presentations explaining concepts and performance statistics of products to support client operations

• Supported the investment banking team in market analysis and portfolio building and assisted the department supervisor in administrative functions and ad-hoc projects

• Collected vital market information to support the operations of other analysts and analyzed firms’ performance across different industries

• Drafted investment memorandums and prepared presentations for portfolio choices PROJECTS

MEASURE INCOME INEQUALITY FROM 1990 TO 2017 Fall 2018

• Aggregated labor data from 1990 to 2017 from the American Community Survey and summarized income statistics at each percentile level to see how income equality between percentiles has changed during data’s time range

• Conducted regression analysis to formulate a model to predict the underlying effects of various variables such as age, education level, and immigration status on income inequality

• Implemented machine learning methods such as Lasso regression analysis to enhance the created model by eliminating multicollinearity among independent variables ADDITIONAL

• Languages: Native Mandarin; Native English; Beginner German

• Technical Skills: Python, Java, C++, R, MATLAB

• Interests: Tennis, Table Tennis, Badminton, Soccer, Liverpool FC Supporter's Club of NYC

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