Chao Sun is a quantitative investment analyst in the Fixed Income Division.

Chao’s investment experience began in 2009 performing quantitative trading, asset management, and data science-driven investment research, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2025, beginning in the Fixed Income Division. Prior to this, Chao led data science and analytics at Northern Trust Asset Management. He previously served as senior lead quantitative analyst at Nuveen Asset Management, designing machine learning-driven factor models and environmental, social, and governance platforms that won multiple innovation awards. In his early career, Chao was the principal quantitative trader at a Chicago-based trading firm trading fixed income derivatives.

Chao earned an M.S. in financial engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a B.S. in information and computer science from Nanjing Normal University. He also ranked in the top 1% of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Professional Education Applied Data Science program. Chao also has earned the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation for alternative investment.