Ken Zhang

Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY) · New York, NY

• Resolved 10,000+ student inquiries across financial aid, bursar, registrar, and admissions under FERPA; built AI-assisted documentation workflows that cut case-logging time 50–60%.

The Ticker, Baruch College

• Published markets and economics articles translating technical finance topics into accessible, source-driven analysis.

Wealth Mill

• Produced weekly five-page equity research reports on 5+ newly listed U.S. companies from primary filings, company fundamentals, comparable-company valuation, and Fed policy and macro context.
• Issued Buy / Neutral / Sell recommendations backed by catalysts, institutional demand, relative valuation, and key risks; owned each report end-to-end, from data gathering and valuation cross-checks to sourcing and final QA.

Founder & Research Author · ken-capital.com

• Publish independent investment research from primary and academic sources — econometric tests, valuation, technical analysis — with stated assumptions, limitations, robustness checks, and explicit invalidation criteria for each thesis.
• Rejected a spurious fed funds–mortgage rate regression by re-testing 300 monthly observations with Newey–West errors, cointegration and Chow tests, and 180 chronological out-of-sample predictions against a no-change benchmark; published the workbooks, and exhibits regenerate from source data in Python with automated checks against the printed figures.

Founder · kenkenphoto.com

• Founded an NYC photography business and converted early outreach into 2 paying clients and first revenue; own pricing, client communication, shoots, editing, and delivery end-to-end.
• Built its operating systems: a trilingual (English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese) site and inquiry workflow, plus a booking pipeline with scheduling, Stripe Checkout payment infrastructure, e-signed agreements, and automated confirmations.