Chia-Chun Chung
🇹🇼Taiwan· Hsinchu
Taiwan's bronze finisher at IQC 2025 — name in WorldQuant's release, the rest of the story still to be written.
Chia-Chun Chung tied for third at the 2025 International Quant Championship — the second podium finish for a Taiwanese university in two years, following National Tsing Hua University's outright win in 2024. He represents National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), the merged research institution in Hsinchu formed in 2021. The 2025 IQC was the first edition WorldQuant ran as an individual competition, with twelve finalists chosen from the top 0.02% of nearly 80,000 contestants who submitted 263,000 alphas on the BRAIN platform between March and August.
Profile is presently thin. Beyond the WorldQuant press release confirming his name, university and placement, no English-language press feature, university announcement, LinkedIn profile, GitHub, or social media presence was located in this research pass. A targeted Mandarin / Traditional-Chinese search (Taiwanese university news sites, NYCU institutional press) is required before this draft can move from stub to publishable. We are deliberately not padding the bio.
The IQC's pattern across 2023-2025 — Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Kenya, Korea on the podium — points to a global recruiting funnel that is no longer dominated by the top-ten Anglo-American institutions. Chia-Chun Chung is part of that pattern; whether the editorial story is "the NYCU quant scene" or "the personal arc that led to Singapore" depends entirely on what surfaces in a follow-up research pass.