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Finding signal in the noise.Sibo Zhu 朱思博

Quantitative Trading · Alpha Research · Innoam

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Sibo Zhu / 朱思博

Sibo Zhu 朱思博

I'm Sibo (/ˈsiːboʊ/), an alpha strategy researcher at Innoam Asset Management in Shanghai. I work on quantitative trading, with a focus on equity signals, reproducible research, and the path from model development to live execution. I care about whether an idea remains useful across market regimes and under real operating constraints.

Before finance, I worked on machine perception at MIT and the University of Toronto, led perception for MIT Driverless, and co-founded an AI hardware company as CTO. Across research and product development, the common thread has been turning technical ideas into systems people can use.

Outside work, I snowboard as an AASI Level-II certified instructor, take photographs, and maintain an unusually detailed meal prep system. I welcome conversations about research, engineering, and building products.

Journey

Research, engineering, a startup, and now markets

Jan 2026 — Present

Alpha Strategy Research

Innoam Asset Management (因诺资产)

Researching daily equity alpha strategies — took a strategy from initial research to live deployment within six months, backed by reproducible training workflows and strict point-in-time (T-1) data audits.

Details

Shanghai, China

  • Crossed over into quantitative finance from zero domain background and took a daily equity alpha strategy from initial R&D to live production deployment within six months, while continuing to drive signal blending and dynamic weighting enhancements in matched historical backtests with standalone execution packages
  • Built reproducible rolling-training and strategy execution workflows, enforcing strict model versioning, point-in-time (T-1) data audits, and deterministic cold-start, state-recovery, and output-consistency verification
  • Engineered an end-to-end automated factor research and governance pipeline, linking large-scale candidate generation, redundancy filtering, feature standardization, and paired model validation to evaluate cross-period stability and marginal portfolio contribution
  • Developed novel features capturing multi-scale price dynamics and cross-sectional relationships, delivering standardized, model-ready factor libraries and evaluating their conditional incremental value against baseline factor pools

Oct 2023 — May 2025

Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

Cyber Partner AI Inc (上海魂伴科技)

Co-founded the company and led product and engineering: the AI JiFeiFei companion device built with Kaishu Story, and a humanoid exhibition robot for Volcano Engine. Operations wound down in mid-2025.

Details

Shanghai, China & Palo Alto, U.S

  • Co-founded the company and led product & engineering: shipped our first AI hardware product to 10,000+ units in month one and 100,000+ within six months
  • Architected the AI JiFeiFei companion device in partnership with leading children's content platform "Kaishu Story", squeezing 0.9s end-to-end latency onto an ESP32-S3
  • Delivered an enterprise-grade 2-meter humanoid interactive robot (Agibot A2 + custom multimodal stack) for Volcano Engine's flagship exhibition
  • Built and led cross-functional R&D across embedded firmware, multimodal LLM orchestration, and hardware mass production while securing strategic funding
  • Wound down operations in mid-2025 and spent the transition period retooling for quantitative finance

Sep 2021 — Aug 2023

Ph.D. Researcher

Toronto Robotics and AI Laboratory

Ph.D. research on event-camera perception for high-speed autonomous driving under extreme lighting and motion, including sparse Vision Transformers for asynchronous event streams.

Dec 2019 — Aug 2021

Graduate Research Assistant

MIT HAN Lab

Worked with Prof. Song Han on efficient machine perception: self-supervised sensor calibration, end-to-end LiDAR navigation and neural network compression for edge devices.

Details

Cambridge, MA

  • Co-developed SemAlign (IROS 2021), a self-supervised sensor calibration framework cutting camera-LiDAR calibration from 3+ hours to under a second (10,000x speedup)
  • Built an efficient end-to-end LiDAR navigation system (ICRA 2021) deployed on a full-scale autonomous vehicle
  • Collaborated with Prof. Song Han on edge neural network compression (PatchNet) adopted across industry

Jan 2019 — Aug 2021

Perception Lead

MIT Driverless

Led a team of more than 20 engineers developing autonomous racing perception, from detection and sensor integration to track testing and open-source infrastructure.

Details

Cambridge, MA

  • Led a 20+ engineer perception team and co-pitched $200K+ in sponsorships from Google, Waymo, and Oracle
  • Pushed perception mAP from 66.97% to 89.35% within a 200ms full-stack latency budget, enabling championship-winning track performance
  • Open-sourced the perception and training infrastructure, adopted by 100+ Formula Student teams globally

Education

  • 2021 - 2023

    University of TorontoPh.D. Studies, Aerospace Science and Engineering (left to co-found Cyber Partner AI)

  • 2018 - 2020

    Brandeis UniversityM.S in Computer Science (AI/ML Specialization)

  • 2014 - 2018

    Boston UniversityB.A in Computer Science + Pure & Applied Mathematics (Double Major)

Selected Work

Research and engineering in AI, robotics and autonomous driving

AI JiFeiFei: AI Companionship with Lasting Memory

Apr 2025Embedded AI / ESP32-S3 / Model Compression

AI JiFeiFei: AI Companionship with Lasting Memory

Built with Kaishu Story, JiFeiFei brings responsive conversation and long-term memory to a consumer AI companion. Model compression and hardware–software co-design around an ESP32-S3 platform deliver 0.9-second end-to-end response. Led from product architecture through mass production, it reached 10,000+ units sold in its first month and 100,000+ within six months.

Team: Sibo Zhu (Co-founder & CTO), Cyber Partner AI Team

Press (GeekPark)
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Bumblebee: Multimodal AI, Embodied

Dec 2024Humanoid Robotics / Conversational AI / Multimodal (Vision/Voice/NLP)

Bumblebee: Multimodal AI, Embodied

A two-meter humanoid that brings vision, voice and bilingual dialogue into one coherent interaction experience. Built on Agibot A2 with our own conversational AI stack, Bumblebee combines multimodal understanding with consistent character expression. We led AI orchestration, robot integration and on-site deployment for Volcano Engine’s flagship exhibition hall.

Team: Sibo Zhu (Co-founder & CTO), Cyber Partner AI Team

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SemAlign: Sensor Calibration in Under a Second

Oct 2021Sensor Calibration / Self-supervised / Camera-LiDAR

SemAlign: Sensor Calibration in Under a Second

A co-first-authored camera–LiDAR calibration framework published at IROS 2021. Self-supervised semantic alignment removes the need for manual labels and reduces calibration from more than three hours to under one second.

Collaborators: Zhijian Liu, Haotian Tang, Sibo Zhu, Song Han

Paper (IROS 2021) Video
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MIT Driverless: Autonomous Race Car & Open-Source Ecosystem

Aug 2021Autonomous Racing / System Integration / Team Leadership

MIT Driverless: Autonomous Race Car & Open-Source Ecosystem

Led perception for MIT’s autonomous Formula Student race car, improving detection mAP from 66.97% to 89.35%. The team released its dataset, labeling pipeline and training infrastructure as an open-source foundation used by more than 100 student racing teams.

Collaborators: Sibo Zhu (Perception Lead), MIT Driverless Team

Open Source Code
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LiDAR End-to-End Navigation: Full-Scale Vehicle Deployment

May 2021End-to-End Learning / Sparse Convolution / LiDAR

LiDAR End-to-End Navigation: Full-Scale Vehicle Deployment

An end-to-end LiDAR navigation framework published at ICRA 2021. Sparse convolution and hardware-aware architecture design connect raw point clouds to steering commands, with deployment on a full-scale autonomous vehicle.

Collaborators: Zhijian Liu, Alexander Amini, Sibo Zhu, Sertac Karaman, Song Han, Daniela Rus

Paper (ICRA 2021) Video
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PatchNet: Ultra-Compact CNN for Edge Computing

Mar 2021Model Compression / Temporal Redundancy / 58M FLOPs

PatchNet: Ultra-Compact CNN for Edge Computing

An ultra-compact CNN that reuses temporal information in video to reduce computation to 58M FLOPs. It achieves 5× fewer operations and 4.3× faster inference on edge devices at the same accuracy. The research and implementation are publicly available.

Collaborators: Huizi Mao, Sibo Zhu, Song Han, William J Dally

arXiv Paper Open Source Code
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High-Speed Autonomous Racing: 200ms Full-Stack Vision

Jul 2020Computer Vision / YOLOv3 / 200ms Full-stack Latency

High-Speed Autonomous Racing: 200ms Full-Stack Vision

A vision pipeline for autonomous racing, published at IROS 2020. Optimized YOLOv3 detection, keypoint pose estimation and sub-microsecond stereo synchronization operate within a 200ms full-stack latency budget.

Collaborators: Kieran Strobel, Sibo Zhu, Raphael Chang, Skanda Koppula

Paper (IROS 2020) Open Source Code Video Tutorial
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Earlier Work

Nov 2020

Faster LiDAR: Real-Time Point Cloud Processing Framework

Attention-based transformer framework for predicting missing LiDAR frames in real-time autonomous driving. 40% throughput improvement with detection accuracy (mAP) unchanged.

Slides
Aug 2020

PointPainting: Sensor Fusion Framework Implementation

Implemented nuTonomy's camera-LiDAR fusion model PointPainting, then used it as the evaluation testbed for our 3D point-cloud prediction and sensor calibration research.

Original Paper Slides Video
Mar 2019

Grad-CAM: CNN Interpretability Framework

A Grad-CAM implementation for visualizing CNN decisions and diagnosing object-detection errors in the autonomous race car’s perception system.

Open Source Code
May 2018

Motion Blur Detection: CNN-Based Computer Vision

A CNN for detecting motion blur in high-speed camera systems, achieving 92% accuracy. The open-source implementation has received more than 100 GitHub stars.

Open Source Code

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