Jerry Zhang

Jerry Zhang is an experienced professional specializing in portfolio management and quantitative research, currently employed at Teza Technologies since June 2021. Prior roles include data scientist at KPMG, focusing on machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing for financial services, where involvement as a KPMG Lighthouse member was noted. Jerry held the position of research assistant at Columbia University, contributing to projects in robot learning and machine learning for robotic manipulation. Earlier expertise was gained as a spacecraft robotics engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on the Mars Perseverance Rover, and as a research engineer at Johnson & Johnson in advanced pharmaceutical product development. Jerry began an academic background with a Master of Science in Robotics from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California.