Biography
Winfield Chen is a data scientist at Canoe Financial. He applies advances in artificial intelligence to business problems relevant to the investment management industry. His past work has been in statistical methods, statistical genetics, and bioinformatics.
Interests
- Reinforcement Learning
- Causal Inference
- Investment Management
Education
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MSc in Statistics, 2022
Simon Fraser University
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BSc in Computing Science, 2020
Simon Fraser University
Experience
Data Scientist
Statistician
Research Assistant
Awards
Dean’s Academic Excellence Entrance Scholarship – Applied Sciences
Publications
(2021).
Compression for population genetic data through finite-state entropy.
Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
(2021).
An expanded set of genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank.
Nature Neuroscience.