Biqing Wei earned her bachelor’s degree in Economics from Tongji University in China. During her undergraduate study, her outstanding performance provided her with a solid foundation in statistics, financial market and programming.
Biqing's work on a project focused on ‘How Banks Can Leverage Stress Testing as a Competitive Differentiator’ during her data analysis internship as a member of the market risk team at China Life Insurance Company Limited, excited and elevated her interest in data analysis and risk management. This experience made her want to get higher level quantitative training in financial analyses. So, in 2015, Biqing Wei joined the Financial Statistics and Risk Management master's degree program.
"By providing courses and research projects in areas such as data mining, regression, time series, algorithmic trading and quantitative risk management, the FSRM program equips me to hit the ground running in an entry level position in financial risk management or financial data analysis and to launch my career as a professional quantitative financial analyst.”