Kevin Zhang

Research Associate at Harris | Oakmark

Chicago, Illinois, United States

About

Experience

  • Research Associate at Harris | Oakmark
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    Harris | Oakmark is a Chicago-based investment company with ~$100B AUM, focused on value investing.

  • CIS 1200 Teaching Assistant at University of Pennsylvania
    Jan 2022 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs

    Selected as a freshman to TA CIS 1200: Programming Languages and Techniques.

  • Restructuring & Special Situations Summer Analyst at PJT Partners
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    Restructuring & Special Situations Group (RSSG).

  • Summer Investment Analyst at Harris | Oakmark
    Jun 2023 - Aug 2023 · 3 mos

    Harris | Oakmark is a Chicago-based investment company with ~$100B AUM, focused on value investing.

  • Summer Analyst at GAO Capital
    May 2022 - Aug 2022 · 4 mos

    Programmed alone from scratch truESG, an NLP-based ESG controversy tracker for equities selected by the Monetary Authority of Singapore for its highly selective Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (AIDA) grant, reducing risk monitoring time by 98% Led truESG to become a direct collaboration with RavenPack, the world’s largest unstructured data provider Worked directly with Chief Risk Officer to devise portfolio hedging options structures now used in main equities fund Conducted research under portfolio manager into M&A activities of select oil and gas equities to find event-driven mispricings Worked directly with a publicly listed ASEAN entity on its acquisition of a prop-tech startup with seed valuation exceeding $10 million USD, and worked with legal team to devise appropriate acquisition strategy and restructuring procedure Participated in Goldman Sachs’ fund calls to evaluate other hedge fund strategies for GAO’s fund-of funds investments