Citadel has appointed Zheng Wang, a former Senior Software Engineer at San Francisco-based self-driving vehicle technology specialist Cruise, as a software Engineer based in the multi-strategy major's New York headquarters.

Wang is Citadel's second recent software engineer recruit with an automotive industry background, following the appointment of Daniel Babin, who formerly worked for Sber Automotive Technologies, in London in March.

At Cruise, Wang, who is skilled in mathematical modelling, Python and Fortran, according to his LinkedIn Profile, and is a PhD in Applied Mathematics, "designed and implemented proprietary computing solutions for in-house machine learning training infrastructure."

Prior to Cruise, that, he worked on cloud tech as a Senior Software Engineer at Google.