Matthew Wang
Cofounder & CEO of OpenGradient
Location: New York City, NY, USA
Expertise: Quantitative Trading, Artificial Intelligence, ML Research, High-Performance Computing
Interests: Behavioral Game Theory, Breakdancing, Calisthenics, Classical Piano
Experience
OpenGradient (2024–Present)
Cofounder & CEO
Research Lab building at the frontier of AI and blockchain computing.
Raised $10M from a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel and more.
Two Sigma (2020–2024)
Quantitative Research & Engineering
Research and modeling engineering for equity options market-making (OMM).
Meta (2018)
Software Engineering Intern
Messenger and Instagram core messaging heuristic infrastructure.
Featured Research
Risk Prediction Dynamic Fee Systems for Mitigating Loss in Automated Market Making (2024)
A novel approach to setting Automated Market Making (AMM) liquidity pool fees dynamically using machine learning to predict market volatility, designed to mitigate impermanent loss risk for liquidity providers and optimize their returns.
A Mathematical Approach to Algorithmic Stablecoin Issuance and Liquidity Optimization (2022)
Research proposal for a protocol that mints a fully collateralized algorithmic stablecoin and provides liquidity-as-a-service using mathematically optimized incentive structures to address key stability and liquidity challenges in DeFi.
Regime-Switching Factor Investing with Hidden Markov Models - Journal of Risk and Financial Management (2020)
Explores the use of Hidden Markov Models (HMM) for market regime classification to dynamically adjust factor exposures based on market conditions. Published in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management.
Featured Writing
Education
Northwestern University (2020)
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering