Chao Ku

Chao Ku is listed on LinkedIn as an algorithm-and-data-science-focused founder and investor based in Short Hills, New Jersey. The LinkedIn-derived index associates him with Nine Chapters Capital Management, LLC, a Short Hills, New Jersey alternative investment manager and registered investment adviser (CRD #165807 / SEC# 802-107871), and with prior investment roles at Two Sigma Advisors and Two Sigma Investments. His listed education is an undergraduate mathematics course of study at Peking University and a PhD at the California Institute of Technology. These biographical details rest primarily on index/aggregator sources and are labeled as such.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. Employment evidence rests on index/aggregator and a single social-media post, not on primary company or regulatory confirmation of Chao Ku's specific role, and the identity link to the IMO 1990 participant is not independently established. Index-only claims: the LinkedIn-derived index lists Founder/CEO/CIO of Nine Chapters Capital Management (2012-) and Chief Investment Officer / Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Management and Analytics at Two Sigma Advisors/Investments (2003-2011), plus a Senior Software Engineer role at Oracle; a Preqin aggregator snippet states Nine Chapters was 'founded in 2012 by Chao Ku, formerly of Two Sigma Investments'; a Peking University Facebook post states he was 'a managing director and Head of Portfolio Management and Analytics at Two Sigma Investments LLC' prior to Nine Chapters; a Radient Analytics aggregator claims a Form ADV lists him as a control person. These are aggregators/secondary, not independent primary confirmation. Employer classification: Two Sigma Investments/Advisors is a quantitative, systematic hedge-fund/investment manager (quantitative finance = yes); Nine Chapters Capital Management, LLC is a Short Hills, NJ alternative investment manager and hedge-fund adviser (CRD #165807 / SEC# 802-107871, Form ADV filer and 13F filer; registered investment adviser = yes, though no source here confirms its strategy is systematic/algorithmic). Two Sigma and Nine Chapters are classified as quantitative-finance/hedge-fund employers; Oracle is a technology company, not a quantitative-finance employer. No student program or incoming offer is cited as employment. Identity support: the LinkedIn profile (Peking University undergraduate mathematics, Caltech PhD) is consistent with, but does not prove, the same person as the China IMO 1990 silver medalist, so identity remains only partially supported. Grade therefore UNRESOLVED: the roles are plausible but not established by a supported identity plus primary-source confirmation.
• Won a silver medal (33 points, 24th overall) for the People's Republic of China at IMO 1990, scoring 7,7,6,7,5,1.Jul 1990
• Nine Chapters Capital Management LLC is a Short Hills, NJ alternative investment manager; a Form ADV filing lists Chao Ku as a control person through intermediate entities (aggregator index, not primary-source confirmation).
• LinkedIn headline is 'Innovator Using Algorithms and Data Science'; based in Short Hills, New Jersey.
• A Peking University School of Economics Facebook post states 'prior to Nine Chapters, Chao Ku was a managing director and Head of Portfolio Management and Analytics at Two Sigma Investments LLC'.