Don Huang is a mathematician, quantitative finance practitioner, and Co-founder and Chief Scientist of AQUMON. He received his PhD in Mathematics from HKUST, and his work lies at the intersection of mathematical modeling, artificial intelligence, quantitative investment, portfolio construction, risk management, and institutional financial technology.
Before founding AQUMON, Dr. Huang taught financial engineering courses in the Department of Mathematics at HKUST and undertook academic visits to Imperial College London and City University of Hong Kong. As first author, he has published multiple papers in leading international academic journals in financial engineering. He has more than twenty years of experience in AI-driven quantitative investment research and has trained more than one hundred quantitative researchers and scientists.
Dr. Huang’s academic and industrial work has consistently focused on translating mathematical and statistical ideas into investment models, research platforms, automated advisory systems, and production-level FinTech solutions. This combination of academic training, teaching experience, quantitative research, and direct involvement in building a regulated financial technology company provides the practical foundation for the proposed course.
AQUMON applies artificial intelligence, machine learning, and mathematical modeling to identify investment opportunities across global financial markets. The company develops quantitative strategies, intelligent research platforms, and algorithmic solutions for asset allocation, risk management, automated trading, and digital wealth management. By combining structured market and financial data with unstructured text, news, and sentiment information, AQUMON generates more comprehensive investment signals and research insights.
AQUMON’s quantitative strategies and technology solutions have been adopted by multiple Hong Kong MPF retirement fund managers, quantitative hedge funds, securities firms, banks, insurers, and other financial institutions. The company has built a team of more than 50 scientists with expertise in artificial intelligence, quantitative modeling, big data, stochastic optimization, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. AQUMON has also been recognized by Forbes Asia 100 to Watch and has been named among the KPMG FinTech 50 and the Greater Bay Area FinTech Flying Fish Top 20 for multiple years.