Chengyue Zhang

About

Sophmore at UChicago interested in Mathematics and the finance field

Experience

• Art Technologies student Staff(Wood and Metal Shops) at Reva and David Logan Center For the Arts
  Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Advised students, staff, and faculty on creative project planning, troubleshooting, and technical workflows across media production, fabrication, and design tools. • Managed resources, facilities, and digital systems (WebCheckout, Canvas, scheduling tools) while supporting programs and fostering an inclusive, collaborative studio environment.

• Board Member at UChicago Derivative Group Quant Trading Group
  Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Participated in Algorithmic Trading Cohort and learn to implement and backtest trading strategies. • Led workshops on the mathematical foundations of financial derivatives, including probability theory, forwards and futures, the time series analysis

• Research Assistant with prof. Shaoda Wang(Becker Friedman Institute) at Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
  May 2025 - Sep 2025 · 5 mos

  • Helped with research on the relationship between U.S. newspaper sentiment toward foreign countries and news media companies’ funding sources • Used ChatGPT-assisted annotation to label 10,000+ samples for BIO-tagging and classification • Fine-tuned BERT-based classification and entity extraction models on annotated samples

• Math REU at University of Chicago
  Jun 2025 - Jul 2025 · 2 mos

  • Studied braid group under the guidance of PhD student Zhong Zhang • Authored an expository paper on Artin representation of braid group as automorphisms of free group for a general mathematical audience

• Data Science Intern at Finance Lobby
  Feb 2025 - Jun 2025 · 5 mos

  • Analyzed company performance evaluation though lender retention rates and other key KPIs. • Conduct market research on emerging commercial real estate (CRE) trends. • Build automated dashboards through Power BI for external-facing industry insights