About

I was born in Shenzhen in 2006, in a city younger than my parents. My grandparents raised me until I started elementary school, and even after that, most weeks still ended at their table. I’m an only child, but it never felt that way: my aunt and uncle treated me as their own, my older cousin was the brother I didn’t have, and the two families traveled together whenever we could. If you ask what I value most, the honest answer is still that table.

My father works in finance, and so did almost everyone he brought me along to meet. Dinner conversations were about deals, rates, who was buying what and why. He and my uncle taught me how a business makes money before I could explain long division. I didn’t decide to go into finance so much as notice, at some point, that I had been studying it my whole life.

In the fall of 2021 my family sent me to Tilton School in New Hampshire for ninth grade. I had wanted to go. I also had no friends, almost no English, and had never seen snow. That first winter was the hardest stretch of my life: the days were short, the cold was new, and I couldn’t say most of what I was thinking. What got me through was that people were kind — patiently, repeatedly — until I could be kind back. I’ve tried to carry that forward.

I spent the next three years at Trinity-Pawling School in New York, where my English caught up and the rest of me did too. In 2025 I came to Rutgers to study economics. The plan is investment banking — partly because it’s the language I grew up in, partly because my parents gave me a great deal and I would like to give some of it back. Along the way I’ve started writing: notes on companies I find interesting, and, when a class like Ethics of AI gets under my skin, essays on questions that don’t have a price.

Off the desk I play a lot of video games, read slowly (Gide and Hesse lately), and listen to jazz and to people arguing about markets on Odd Lots. I used to fly drones, until the world ran out of places to fly them. Back home in Shenzhen there is a beige cocker spaniel named Pluto who does not care about any of this.