About me

Shen Xu is a Portfolio Manager | Head of NLP at Balyasny Asset Management with a focus on global cash equities and commoditity futures. Prior to that, he was a Portfolio Manager from TradeLink for 9 years. He has a focus on learning unstructured data by NLP and bringing them into market by investment strategies.

He loves open source and has been contributing to a variety of open source projects, including a Tensorflow based deep learning package deuNetTF(https://github.com/shenxudeu/deuNetTF), Gaussian Process package gp_theano(https://github.com/shenxudeu/gp_theano), and high performance implementation of other usage machine learning algorithms such as K-means and K-medoids(https://github.com/shenxudeu/K_Medoids).

He also likes to write articles on techniques and markets, try to explaining complex concepts by plain words, and most importantly, codes.