Dr. Wang is currently a senior portfolio manager at Thrivent’s Systematic Alpha Group managing over $10 billion of active quantitative equity portfolios and passive index funds that cover US, International and Emerging Markets. Prior to joining Thrivent, Dr Wang was a Managing Director on Quantitative Research at Pine River Capital Management, where his responsibility included quantitative modeling, strategy research and risk management covering equity and equity derivatives, credit and credit derivatives, currencies, commodities and fixed income etc. Dr. Wang earned his PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Minnesota. He is also a CFA charter holder.