Nanjing University Business School

Yicheng Gao

Financial research, data analysis & entrepreneurship

I am Yicheng Gao, an undergraduate in Financial Engineering at Nanjing University Business School. Admitted to its academic master’s program in Finance, I expect to enroll in September 2027. Alongside financial research, I contribute to interdisciplinary empirical projects and entrepreneurship in technology and education.

Fixed income / Investment funds / Risk management / Banking

Explore below

01 / Research

Start with a question. Understand the risk.

From money markets to the yield curve: how risk is measured, and where the conclusions apply.

Research / 02

Sparse rebalancing and estimation uncertainty in yield-curve hedging

Research question & scope

Using China’s government bond yield curve, I compare fixed, rolling, monthly, and uncertainty-triggered risk-weight updates to study the trade-offs between residual risk, adjustment magnitude, and curve-shape exposure.

Approach

Curve-risk experiments · Rolling estimation · Rebalancing rules

Research boundaries

A standardized risk experiment; it does not establish trading returns or actual transaction-cost savings.

Repo-rate spreads, month-end patterns, and government bond yields

Research question & scope

An empirical study of the R007–DR007 spread, examining central and upper-tail characteristics, month-end differences, and contemporaneous associations with short- and long-maturity government bond yield changes.

Approach

Distribution analysis · Conditional quantiles · Contemporaneous associations

Research boundaries

Descriptive historical research; statistical associations are not policy causation or trading signals.

Abstract illustrations · Research summaries

02 / Experience

Where research meets practice.

Turning data into understanding, and bringing ideas into real work.

Research assistant

Feb 2026 — Present

ShanghaiTech University

I support Professor 陈佳 in empirical analyses of healthcare data, surveys, and behavioral experiments. Using Python, R, and Stata, I work on data integration, variable construction, statistical modeling, and complex-survey analysis, and support replication, literature review, and research visualizations.

Entrepreneurship in technology & education

2024

北京知临高科科技有限公司

I began entrepreneurial work in 2024 and participated in founding the company with friends in 2025. My contributions include product development, communications, operations, mathematics competition education, book development, MWORKS outreach, and exploratory work in photonics and chips.

Entrepreneurial work began in 2024; the company was founded in 2025.

03 / Honors

Keep learning. Keep questioning.

Education

91.8/100Average score
3/27Rank (degree-course average)

Nanjing University Business School

Undergraduate program in Financial Engineering

Sep 2023 — Expected Jun 2027

Undergraduate · currently enrolled

Nanjing University Business School

Academic master’s program in Finance

Expected Sep 2027 — Expected Jun 2030

Admitted · not yet enrolled

Competitions & certificates

16th National Undergraduate Mathematics Competition — final

Non-mathematics category A · First prize

4th “外教社·词达人杯” National Undergraduate English Vocabulary Competition

National final · Undergraduate non-English majors · First prize

5th Nanjing University Business School Undergraduate Management Case Analysis Competition

Merit award (优胜奖)

BDA Junior Data Analyst

Certificate

Research tools & skills

Python

Data preparation, statistical analysis, financial models, and research visualization

R

Experimental statistics, replication, and research code organization

Stata

Complex surveys, weighted statistics, and regression analysis

SQL / Excel

Data queries, preparation, and research tables

Choice / Wind

Financial data retrieval and extraction

CET-4 / CET-6

Scores: 661 / 587

04 / Books

Knowledge, bound for a new journey.

Contributing to mathematics competition books and educational content.

Cover: 全国大学生数学竞赛(非数学类)备考攻略
Editorial committee memberPublished

《全国大学生数学竞赛(非数学类)备考攻略》

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press

A preparation guide for the national undergraduate mathematics competition, non-mathematics category. Descriptive translation; the official Chinese title is retained.

40,000copies sold · entire book

Cover: 全国大学生数学竞赛(非数学类)通关之路
Editorial committee memberAvailable for pre-order

《全国大学生数学竞赛(非数学类)通关之路》

Peking University Press

A mathematics competition preparation book, currently available for pre-order. The official Chinese title is retained.

05 / Contact

A conversation can be a beginning.

Every conversation begins somewhere.

I welcome conversations about financial research, data analysis, and technology and education.

Yicheng Gao