Li Chang, PhD

In 2015, Li founded Recursion Co. in New York, a Fintech company integrating technology, finance, and big data. Li is frequently invited to speak on the panels of leading conferences., Prior to founding Recursion, Li was a senior trader managing ABS portfolio for hedge fund Altum Capital Management. Before joining Altum, she traded CMBS for Paulson and Co. Li gained her extensive cross-product understanding of both business and analytics/technology from her earlier experience through working at the proprietary trading desk at Bear Stearns, running the financial engineering team of the mortgage desk at Citadel, and conducting quantitative research at Morningstar. Li holds a PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a B.Arch. from Tsinghua University.