Dr. Kun Gao has extensive investment management experience at leading Wall Street hedge funds and investment banks, including Tudor Investment Corporation, Balyasny Asset Management and Morgan Stanley. As Senior Portfolio Manager, he leads, manages and grows all aspects of his trading business operation with a focus on global equity market. He runs one of the largest quantitative books at these leading hedge funds for many years.
Kun received a B.S. in Statistics from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Yale University. He contributed a book chapter about quantitative equity trading for Financial Engineering (Wiley, 2011). He won Excellent Debater Prize in the International Collegiate Debate Contest representing the Yale Chinese Debate Team.