Kai Feng

Kai Feng

Operations Research and Information Engineering
Financial Engineering
MEng
Fall
2015

Biography

MEng Concentration: Financial Engineering
Anticipated Graduation Date: December 2015
Areas of Interest: Quantitative Research, Modeling and Risk Management

Kai Feng received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in both Finance and Applied Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin. During his time there, he was listed on the Dean’s list five times. While working on a project in asset portfolio horse racing in UMW, Kai Feng found his passion for quantitative finance.

While interning at Citigroup during the summer of 2015, Kai worked as a modeling specialist and researching analyst in the Cross Asset Portfolio Risk Management group. Besides constructing the deposit balance and customer rate system model in stress testing and normal period forecasting, he also assisted in deposit product outliers detection and logistic share model buildup.

During his full time internship experience at Shopcube in New York City, Kai successfully applied his researching and modeling abilities by helping the company build a fraud user detection program. In addition, he was able to utilize his finance and investment knowledge to prepare the company’s pro forma for investment fundraising.

Upon graduation, with his strong research and modeling skills, Kai is eager to pursue a career in risk management and quantitative finance.