Curtis Chen

Background and experience

Curriculum vitae

Chutian Chen (Curtis) · Hong Kong

I’m CEO of Quanta Edge, focused on agents and research, and a Ph.D. candidate at HKUST researching AI for finance.

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Education

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ph.D. candidate · 2022–present · Hong Kong

Research: AI for finance.

Columbia University

M.S. in Computer Science · 2019–2021 · New York, USA

Peking University

B.S. in Economics (double major) · 2016–2019 · Beijing, China

Tsinghua University

B.Eng. in Engineering Physics · 2015–2019 · Beijing, China

Experience

Quanta Edge

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer · 07/2026–present

  • Leading the firm’s work on agents and research: parallel strategy discovery, shared research infrastructure and self-improving research systems.

Futuristic Group Ltd

Founder & Chief Executive Officer · 03/2025–06/2026

  • Founded a systematic proprietary trading business and led its strategy research.
  • Built research and trading systems for systematic and prediction-market strategies.

Alibaba Group

Machine Learning Product Manager · 08/2020–12/2021

Recommendation algorithms for live-streaming e-commerce.

Graphen, Inc.

Deep Learning Researcher · 01/2020–08/2020

Reinforcement learning for FX trading.

Megvii

Deep Learning Researcher · 09/2018–06/2019

Out-of-distribution robustness for computer-vision models.

Publication

EvoQuantLab: Training-Free Dual-Loop Evolution for Auditable Quantitative Research

Haolin Yang, Zhiqiang Qian, Chutian Chen, Jipeng Zhang, Zhenghao Zhu, Tangjia Deng, Jian Xie, Shuaishuai Gong, Yike Guo and Sirui Han. arXiv, 2026.

Automated quantitative research combining genetic-programming factor search with an outer loop that diagnoses results and improves research methods.

Research interests

Parallel AI agents, self-improving research systems, market microstructure and learning across markets. More on my research

Honors