Yiman Ren

I am currently an AI Researcher at DRW, based in Palo Alto, California. I received my PhD degree in the Joint Business Economics and Scientific Computing program at the Univesity of Michigan, Ross School of Business, and College of Engineering in 2025, advised by prof. Sarah Miller, prof. Maggie Makar, prof. Francine Lafontaine and prof. Zach Brown. I received my bachelor's degree in Financial Engineering from East China Normal University in Shanghai.  

My academic research focuses on financial economics and causal machine learning. 

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