Alumni Kaleidoscope: Don Huang - PhD(MATH), MSc(MATH-FMS)
What's better than to turn your interests into a career? Don is a former lecturer in Financial Engineering at HKUST. "Nature is written in mathematics, so should investments." Believing investments should be scientific and data-driven, Don and his friend Kelvin Lei co-founded an algorithm-based wealth management financial technology company, AQUMON, under HKUST's entrepreneurial program.
They first started in HKUST's library in 2016 with a vision to make investing smarter, simpler, affordable and transparent for institutional and individual investors in Hong Kong and beyond.
Fast forward to today, their robo advisor has successfully expanded from a 2-person startup to a team of over 90 talents with multiple offices in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Singapore. Keeping the HKUST to-do spirit in mind, they have gained the trust and partnered with 60+ large financial institutions such as Bank of China International and CMB Wing Lung Bank. Their AQUMON app is also helping everyday people in Hong Kong build their wealth in a more convienient, affordable yet intelligent way.
"Keep rolling, keep improving." That's the DNA of AQUMON.
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About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (www.ust.hk) is a world-class research university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. HKUST attained the highest proportion of internationally excellent research work in the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee, and is ranked as the world’s best young university in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2019. Its graduates were ranked 16th worldwide and top in Greater China in Global University Employability Survey 2018.
