Vanessa Feng
Incoming Analyst at J.P. Morgan in New York.
Works on credit and portfolio risk and builds her own models and tools. Data Science and Economics at UC San Diego, 2027.
30–35%fewer false positives on Lima One Capital’s loan watchlist, from a filter she built on its probability‑of‑default model.
Probability of default model
300 to 10
candidate variables cut to the final model
A logistic-regression model of credit card default. Vintage curves set a 6‑month performance window; roll-rate analysis tracked accounts within it.
- Narrowed the candidate variables with break-and-heal binning, weight of evidence and information value, stepwise regression and cluster analysis.
- Set warning and breach thresholds for ongoing monitoring.
- KS
- 55%
- PSI
- 13%
- MAPE
- 10%
Lima One Capital
30–35%
fewer false positives on the loan watchlist
Piped the probability‑of‑default model into the watchlist as a loan filter, saving about 10 hours of manual review a month.
- Tested 8 model thresholds against recall, precision, accuracy and ROC‑AUC; chose the one that kept recall above 0.90 with the other metrics at or above firm benchmarks.
- Built Datarails dashboards that segment about 300 flagged loans a month by product, geography, vintage and sponsor.
- Restructured the credit approval memo to quantify risk assessments; approval meetings ran about 50% faster.
Morgan Stanley
6 portfolios
for new clients
Rebalanced asset class, sector and market-cap allocations to each client’s risk profile, liquidity needs and existing exposure; tested long-term goals with Monte Carlo simulation.
- Designed duration- and credit-appropriate fixed income strategies for 10+ client portfolio reviews with the financial planning team.
- Screened and modelled 10+ US large- and mid-cap stocks; built the Excel forecasts through 2028 that the team used for tactical positioning of $100MM+ in client assets.
- Assessed 5 private market funds in infrastructure, real estate and private credit for risk and client suitability, supporting asset allocation across 50+ client portfolios.
Education and experience
- Education
UC San Diego
B.S. Data Science and B.A. Economics, 2023–2027. GPA 3.75.
Econometrics, Financial Accounting, Financial Statement Modeling, Data Modeling, Machine Learning & Application, Data Management
- Earlier experience
Rappo
VC Analyst Intern, Tech networking and vendor platform, Jun–Sep 2024, San Francisco
Designed the 10+ slide pitch deck Rappo used with 200+ investors to raise its first round.
- Built a database of 500+ target investors with Python and web scraping, with a risk-appetite scorecard for fit that improved targeting accuracy 50%+.
- Refined go-to-market from investor feedback; a new one-pager lifted the cold-email success rate 10%+ as Rappo won 100+ clients and $6,000+ in revenue in two months.
- Certifications
- Securities Industry Essentials (SIE)FINRA, 2026
- Analyzing Financial ReportsWall Street Prep, 2025
- Excel Skills for BusinessGoldman Sachs, 2024
- Bloomberg Finance FundamentalsBloomberg
- Award
The President’s Volunteer Service Award
AmeriCorps, 2021
- Languages
English (native), Chinese (native), French (elementary)
- Tools
Python, SQL, Java, Snowflake, Tableau, Datarails, Excel, PowerPoint
