Bin Li currently is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Westport Financial LLC. Bin is an internationally well-known researcher and practitioner in the finance industry. Prior to co-founding Westport Financial LLC in October 1998, Bin was Executive Director, Head of Quantitative Trading Strategies at Warburg Dillon Read, the investment banking division of the United Bank of Switzerland. From 1993 to 1997, Bin was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, headed the Quantitative Analysis Group. Bin has been an invited speaker at many conferences/workshops on Quantitative Finance. Bin received his PhD in Physics from New York University in 1992.