1. Sirui Zhang (631) 885-5318 | sirui.zhang.frank@gmail.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/SiruiZhang
Objective
Entry-level analytical full time job in economic or business analysis industry
Education
M.A. in Economics Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, New York GPA:3.53 MAY/2015
B.A. in Public Finance Hunan University | China JUN/2013
Skills
MATLAB/ R/ Maple/ Fortran/ LATEX/ Excel/ Word/ PowerPoint/ Outlook
Economic Analysis/ Economic Forecast/ Economic Modeling/ Investment Strategy/ Leadership
CourseWork: Microeconomics/ Macroeconomics/ Econometrics/ Computational Macroeconomics/ Demographic Economics/
Stochastic Calculus/ Probability and MathematicalStatistics/ Computational Finance
Languages: Fluent in written and spoken English, native in Mandarin
Academic Projects
Comparison of Different Methods in Forecasting Stocks’ Returns orPrices Fall 2014
 Used Auto Regression Model to forecast stocks’ prices
 Used Pair Trading Model to pick top ten mean-reverting pairs and calculate the expected returns
 Used Principal Component Analysis to form 5 risk factors, then used Vector Auto Regression to forecast next period risk
factors, at last calculated next period prices
 Used Market Neutral Model to form market neutral portfolio and calculate the expected returns
 Calculated the correlation between real data and forecast data
 Compared with Auto Regression and Vector Auto Regression, Pair Trading and Market Neutral models have much better
forecast ability
What's the Role of Demographic Dividend in China's Economic Development Fall 2014
 Set up the model on basis of Cobb-Douglas production function
 Collected the time series data from 1978 to 2013 from National Bureau of Statistics of China and the World Bank
 Used MATLAB to plot various graphs, e.g. population growth, population structure
 Used R to regress China’s economic growth on factors as agestructure, labor force participation, education
 Extended the model with some other elements such as international trade, urbanization, legalprogress, openness
 Showed that China has a demographic dividend but urbanization, legalprogress and openness played a more important
role
 Picked up the best regression model to forecast China’s economic development from 2014 to 2050
 Used LATEX to write the paper
RelatedExperience
Bank of East Asia Shanghai, China
Financial Advisor Intern OCT/2012 – NOV/2012
 Assisted the Financial Advisors in arranging daily files
 Learned about various bank's financial products and helped the Financial Advisors to communicate with customers
 Performed data entry, data auditing, PowerPoint design
Additional Experience
Computer Lab Consultant Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, New York OCT/2014 – MAY/2015
Librarian Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, New York SEP/2013 – DEC/2013
Leadership
Economic Knowledge Association Changsha, China
Vice Chairman JUN/2010 – JUN/2011
 Managed the overall arrangement of various activities, including Welcoming Freshmen, Recruiting New Members,
Organizing Marketing Competition
 Collected sponsorship for activities and learned to interact with business people and form a positive situation for
everyone