Hi, I'm Zitong Cheng

I am a senior undergraduate at Sun Yat-sen University (Lingnan College), pursuing a B.Econ in Finance with a minor in Statistics (GPA: 3.8/4.0, expected June 2026).

My research lies at the intersection of quantitative finance and machine learning. I am particularly interested in representation learning for financial assets, deep generative models for factor modeling, and NLP techniques applied to financial data.

I have interned at Huatai Securities and Shenwan Hongyuan Group, where I applied deep learning methods to asset pricing and cross-sectional return prediction. I also contributed to the MindDFT framework migration project under the national Science and Technology Innovation 2030 – New Generation AI program.