Founding members

Our Team

Meet the elite students building CQLLM Club and shoot for the stars. Click the headshot to see their on linkedin.

Executive Board

Brilliant, passionate, and deeply curious.

YOU

Crystal ZHANG

Founder

The founder of CQLLM Club. Columbia Computer Science undergraduate class of 26, Graduate student at Columbia Financial Engineering class of 28.

Founder/President AI × Quant Quant Research
EDU

Tony Huang

Head of Education

Incoming D. E. Shaw proprietary trading intern. Columbia Graduate at Columbia Mathematics Finance class of 27.

D. E. Shaw Education Quant Trading
RES

Junxiao CHEN

Head of Research

Incoming Citadel Securities quantitative research summer intern. Columbia Graduate at Columbia Business School class of 27.

Citadel Securities Research Quant Research
ENG

Michael CHEN

Head of Engineering

Incoming OpenAI fall intern. Computer Science major Columbia undergraduate. Rising seniorm, class of 27.

OpenAI Engineering LLM Systems
CEO

Yihan ZHU

Head of Startup

Columbia SESE club founding member and CEO of OpenEd. Computer Science major Columbia Undergraduate. Rising junior, class of 27.

Entrepreneur Startup LLM Systems
ANA

Aidan HAYA

Analyst

Applied Mathematics and Computer Science major Columbia Undergraduate. Rising sophomore, class of 31.

Quant Trading LLM Systems Research
ANA

Renjie ZHONG

Analyst

Columbia Business School Economics Phd Candidate, research interest game theory and mechanism design, class of 30.

Game Theory Econ Industry Research
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Future Members

Researchers, engineers, and quant builders

We are looking for students who are serious about learning, generous with peers, and excited to work at the frontier of LLMs, quantitative research, and applied AI.

LLM Research Quant Engineering