Yu Zhang received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics at Changsha University of Science and Technology in 2011 and then received his master's degree in Economics and Business Administration at Aalborg University and another master’s degree from Managemen Science and Engineering at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. He had experience in banks as a data analyst and in an IT company as a machine learning engineer. Now, his research mainly focuses on modeling blockchain-based transaction networks, developing efficient arbitrage algorithms and optimizing the arbitrage paths, and Stock-Flow-Consistency macroeconomics.