Carnegie Mellon University

Chengkai Men

Chengkai Kai Men

Class of 2025

Bio

Kai graduated from the University of Cambridge with a B.A. in Economics. He has worked as a research assistant on several significant projects, including an inflation study utilizing network and items-level data with the Complexity Economics department at Oxford University, and non-parametric options market modelling with the Econometrics department at Cambridge. Furthermore, he completed an individual dissertation on modelling financial network and simulating bank failures. Throughout his academic and professional journey, Kai has honed his technical skills in independent research, Python development, machine learning, and statistics. He is deeply passionate about understanding complex financial markets and applying his quantitative skills in quantitative research/trading.