About me
Dr. James Zhang is the Managing Director of AI Forecasting and Strategy Platform of Ant Group. Dr. Zhang obtained his Ph.D. degree from Univ. of Ottawa, Canada in Electrical Engineering, and both his Master's and Bachelor degrees from Zhejiang Univ., China. Before he joined Ant Financial, Dr. Zhang worked on finance-related AI at Bloomberg, helped setting up the AI branch of Bloomberg Labs and initiating the GPU computation farm of Bloomberg. Dr. Zhang worked in various areas including image processing, natural language processing, pattern recognition, high-speed hardware development, optical networks, operations research, biometrics, and financial systems.