Dr. Zhang was formerly a Senior Vice President, Director of Research and Fund Manager at American Century Investments with more than 15 years of experience and public investment records.

Besides directly managing various billion dollar funds and supervising portfolio managers, Dr. Zhang also directed the equity research group responsible for investment strategies, stock selection models, and quantitative systems for global stocks. Prior to October 1995, he was a Research Fellow with Ilya Prigogine Centre for Statistical Mechanicsand Complex Systems at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Zhang has a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Texas at Austin under Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine. Dr. Zhang has publications in financial economics and co-authored a book on finance and investing in 2000. Dr. Zhang is President-Elect  and a Board Director of the Chinese Finance Association (TCFA).