Xiang Yu
PhD (Brunel University, London)
Chief Business Development Officer
Dr Yu joined OptiRisk in 2014 after completing her PhD in Mathematics at Brunel University. Her research interests are in sentiment analysis, predictive analytics and market microstructure and their applications in financial analytics. She conducts client facing applied research; she is also in charge of all aspects of acquiring market data and news metadata. Xiang and Professor Mitra are co-editors of the forthcoming “Handbook of Sentiment Analysis in Finance”. She is fluent in Chinese Mandarin (her native language) and English.