Xige Zhang

Xige (Nicole) Zhang currently serves as Vice President in Rates Structuring and Solutions Trading at Citi, a position held since March 2018, following a promotion from Assistant Vice President. Key responsibilities include rates derivative modeling and pricing, creating bespoke corporate hedging solutions, executing and rebalancing rates indices, and the primary issuance of structured notes with customized payoffs, alongside developing new products tied to SOFR. Prior experience includes a role as a Research Analyst focused on Equity Quant Strategy and CMBS research, and a Summer Analyst position at Citi. Xige also has research experience as an Assistant in the Reinforcement Learning Lab at the University of Michigan, where duties encompassed algorithm analysis, machine learning, simulation, modeling, and optimization. Educational qualifications include a Master’s Degree in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University and dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Financial Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Michigan.