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About
Mengyuan Lin is a Portfolio Manager at EMPIRICAL FINANCE, LLC, based in Philadelphia, PA. In this capacity, Lin is responsible for overseeing portfolio construction and management, focusing on quantitative investment strategies and systematic asset allocation. Her work specifically targets public equities, with an emphasis on factor-based and data-driven investment approaches.
Previously, Lin served as a Portfolio Manager at Alpha Architect, where she specialized in developing and managing quantitative equity portfolios. She also gained experience as a Digital Marketing Analyst at Strong America Ltd and as an Analytics Consultant on PECO's staffing optimization project through Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. These roles reflect her strong analytical background and expertise in leveraging statistical techniques for investment decision-making in the financial and business services sectors.
Lin holds a Master’s degree in Business Statistics and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in Accounting and Finance from Drexel University. Her academic training underpins her proficiency in quantitative analytics, risk modeling, and investment strategy design, contributing to her achievements in managing systematic strategies in the equities asset class.
Career History
| Organization | Role | Date Range | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Architect | Portfolio Manager | Aug 2021 to Present | — |
| Strong America Ltd | Digital Marketing Analyst | May 2021 to Present | • Develop new concepts and ideas to drive online sales across core advertising network such as Instagram, Wechat, and Facebook as well as email marketing. Design email campaign, perform A/B testing, a... |
| Drexel University's LeBow College of Business | Analytics Consultant for PECO Staffing Optimization Consulting Project | Sep 2019 to Dec 2019 | Built multiple time series models, including ARIMA and Exponential Smoothing, in R to predict future daily work load at call center. Developed optimized staffing schedule based on the future work load... |
| Drexel University's LeBow College of Business | Analytics Consultant for Pfizer NLP Classification Model Evaluation Project | Jun 2019 to Aug 2019 | Built tradition models such as SVM, Naïve Bayes, Decision Tree and K-NN using Python to detect prescription drug abuse from Twitter Compared traditional model performances on Nature Language Processin... |
| Strong America Ltd | Executive Assistant | Feb 2018 to Aug 2018 | — |
| Strong America Ltd | Treasurer | Aug 2017 to Feb 2018 | — |
| Chengtun Mining Group Co., Ltd. | Business Intern | Jan 2017 to Mar 2017 | — |
| Brite Star Mfg Co | E-Commerce Business Intern | Sep 2015 to Mar 2016 | -Performed account management for up to 12 major dot com retailers, such as amazon, to generate major sales portions for the company. -Created invoices for more than 200 clients a day during the Chris... |
| China Securities Co., Ltd. | Customer Service Assistant | Jul 2014 to Aug 2014 | -Assisted average 5 customers with opening stock trading accounts a day and taught them how to utilize the app to keep track on their stocks. -Filed over 100 customer account information per week in o... |
| Xiamen Quanxin TV Shopping Company | Backstage Staff | Aug 2012 to Sep 2012 | -Arranged live TV shopping program background scene setting which make the show more appealing to audiences and checked the condition for the items being displayed on the show. -Updated the inventory ... |
| Xiamen Police Office(Huli Department) | Records Assistant | Jul 2012 to Aug 2012 | -Photographed and recorded over 5 robbery scenes to help with the investigation processes and filed up to 50 crime reports a day. -Analyzed fingerprints left at the crime scenes and compared those fin... |
Education
Drexel University
Master's degree, Business Statistics
2018 — 2020
Drexel University - LeBow College of Business
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Accounting and Finance
2013 — 2017
Skills & Expertise
Others at Empirical Finance, LLC (3)
| Name | Role | Location |
|---|---|---|
R Richard Shaner | Portfolio Manager | PA , United States |
W Wen Gao | ETF Trading Analyst | Philadelphia, PA , United States |
| Portfolio Manager | Philadelphia, PA , United States |
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