Guolong Li

Guolong Li is a quantitative finance professional in Hong Kong with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His career spans bank quantitative analysis (RBS, JPMorgan model review), quant research at the trading-technology firm Shell Street Labs, and crypto quant trading (Antalpha, Galaxy Digital); his LinkedIn currently lists him as portfolio manager at Edwance International. As a school student he represented Belgium at the IMO three times, winning silver (2005), an honourable mention (2006) and bronze (2007).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity is supported: the LinkedIn profile carrying the RBS/JPMorgan/Galaxy quant roles also lists the three IMO medals (2005 silver, 2006 HM, 2007 bronze) matching the official Belgium IMO records and lists Dutch/French/Chinese languages consistent with Belgium. Employment: sustained actual quantitative roles - Quantitative Analyst at Royal Bank of Scotland (bank quant, London, 2015-2017), VP in Model Review at JPMorgan Chase (bank model validation, London, 2017-2019), Senior Scientist at Shell Street Labs (complex-trading-strategy software/data, HK, 2019-2022), Quant & trader at Antalpha (crypto fintech, 2022-2024), Quantitative Trader at Galaxy Digital (crypto trading, HK, 2023-2024), and Consultant at WorldQuant (systematic quant asset manager, 2015). Employer classification: RBS and JPMorgan are banks with quantitative-finance functions; WorldQuant is a systematic quant asset manager; Galaxy Digital and Antalpha are crypto trading firms; Shell Street Labs builds trading-strategy software/data. These are employment roles, not student programs, insight days, camps or scholarships. Caveat: every employment role traces to the person's LinkedIn and its aggregator mirrors (me.sh, RocketReach) - no company ATS or primary company page independently confirms them - and the current Edwance International role is unclassified. The 2015 WorldQuant 'Consultant' title overlaps with WorldQuant's remote research-consultant program.Sep 17, 2026
• LinkedIn shows a Cambridge education (University of Cambridge, ~2007-2010) plus a PhD there 2011-2015, and a continuous quantitative-finance career from 2015; the LinkedIn profile also lists IMO medal achievements, so the professional profile and the Olympiad identity are the same person, not a namesake.Sep 17, 2026
• Career timeline from LinkedIn: PhD, University of Cambridge (2011-2015); Consultant, WorldQuant LLC (2015); Quantitative Analyst, Royal Bank of Scotland, London (2015-2017); VP Model Review, JPMorgan Chase & Co., London (2017-2019); Senior Scientist, Shell Street Labs, Hong Kong (2019-2022); Quant & trader, Antalpha (2022-2024); Quantitative Trader, Galaxy Digital Holdings, Hong Kong (2023-2024); Portfolio Manager, Edwance International (2024-). All from a single LinkedIn-derived index, not yet primary-source confirmed.Sep 17, 2026
• Employer classification (company records read this run): WorldQuant LLC is a systematic quantitative asset-management firm ('global quantitative asset management firm with over $7 billion in AUM', founded 2007 by Igor Tulchinsky) - the 2015 'Consultant' role is a genuine quant-investment affiliation, though WorldQuant also uses 'Consultant' for its distributed research program.Sep 17, 2026
• Galaxy Digital is a publicly listed crypto financial-services firm (digital-asset trading, OTC and electronic crypto markets) - the 2023-2024 'Quantitative Trader' role is crypto-market trading. Enrichment attached an incorrect domain (galaxydigital.vn); Galaxy's real site is galaxy.com.Sep 17, 2026
• Edwance International, the current (2024-) employer listed as 'Portfolio manager', returns no record in the company index and its homepage carries almost no content, so whether Edwance actually operates in quantitative finance is unverified; the current role is LinkedIn-claimed only and is not counted as quant-confirmed.Sep 17, 2026
• The role history (RBS Quantitative Analyst 2015-2017, JPMorgan VP Model Review 2017-2019, Galaxy Quantitative Trader 2023-2024, etc.) appears identically on the LinkedIn-derived enrichment and on the aggregator mirrors me.sh and RocketReach, which reproduce the same LinkedIn data rather than adding an independent source; the claims are self-reported profile data, not company-confirmed.Sep 17, 2026
• Represented Belgium at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2005 (Silver, 93 pts / 82.1%), 2006 (Honourable Mention) and 2007 (Bronze), per the official IMO results archive.Jul 1, 2007
• Shell Street Labs (Hong Kong) 'provides software and data solutions to an array of problems that arise in complex trading strategies' - a trading-technology/quant research firm rather than a generic lab; the 2019-2022 Senior Scientist role sits inside trading-strategy R&D.Sep 17, 2026
• Antalpha is a crypto-focused fintech ('providing financing, technology and risk management solutions to institutions', HQ Singapore) - the 2022-2024 'Quant & trader' role is crypto trading/financing rather than bank quant.Sep 17, 2026
• Guolong Li is not identifiable on GitHub or as author of the RBS/Cambridge quant-model papers found in search; the several 'Guolong Li' academics (Bohai University, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, a quantum-metrology author) are namesakes. No personal website, X/Twitter handle, or blog surfaced.Sep 17, 2026
• LinkedIn languages are English, French, Dutch and Chinese - Dutch and French are the two main Belgian national languages, corroborating the Belgium IMO representation listed on the same profile.Sep 17, 2026