Carnegie Mellon University

Futian Zhong

Futian Freyr Zhong

Class of 2025

Bio

Having graduated from Peking University with 'Honorable Scholarship' awards, Futian (Freyr) Zhong has studied and practiced asset pricing and financial data analysis, such as APT and PCA. During his undergraduate years, he was a quantitative research intern in CICC-Asset Management and Lingjun Investment, two top buy-side financial companies in China, where he mined and optimized pricing factors with a high Sharpe Ratio and ICIR. In 2023, Freyr joined MSCF to further study stochastic calculus, machine learning, and other financial theories. Sensitive to market trends, Freyr enjoys a fast-paced working environment so he intends to intern and work as a quantitative trader or researcher.