Yan Gu is a Managing Director in Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing (BXMA).

Before joining Blackstone in 2019, Yan was head of quant research and member of the management committee of Stone Ridge Asset Management. Prior to joining Stone Ridge, Yan was head of research of quant equity at Magnetar Capital. Yan also worked as a quant researcher at Citadel and Lehman Brothers.

Yan received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from UPenn, an M.S. from Stanford and B.S. from Fudan University in China.