Yi Tang Author & Editor

Yi Tang is currently with Goldman, Sachs & Co., Inc. as the head of a Strategies Group in FICC. Previously, he was with Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. as a Managing Director / Principal in the F.A.S.T Department and the head of a Quant group responsible for part of the interest rate derivatives modeling and part of the IR/Credit hybrid derivatives modeling. Prior to that, he was a Vice Present in a Quant group at Goldman, Sachs & Co, Inc. He also worked as a Quantitative Financial Analyst at Cambix and Rubicon Financial Systems, Inc. Before switching to the field of Quantitative Finance, he worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics and a Postdoc researcher at UCLA, and as a Senior Scientist and a Project Manager at Princeton Electronic Systems, Inc. with extensive collaborations with Sarnoff Corporation, formerly RCA. Yi has been an invited speaker at several conferences/seminars on Quantitative Finance. He received his PhD in Physics from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1992. Bin Li currently is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Westport Financial LLC. Bin is an internationally well-known researcher and practitioner in the finance industry. Prior to co-founding Westport Financial LLC in October 1998, Bin was Executive Director, Head of Quantitative Trading Strategies at Warburg Dillon Read, the investment banking division of the United Bank of Switzerland. From 1993 to 1997, Bin was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, headed the Quantitative Analysis Group. Bin has been an invited speaker at many conferences/workshops on Quantitative Finance. Bin received his PhD in Physics from New York University in 1992.