Damon is a portfolio manager for the Portfolio Solutions Group at MSIM, heading the team's Quantitative Research. Damon focuses on asset allocation, portfolio optimization and rebalancing and has helped develop and refine the proprietary quant models utilized by the team. He has 17 years of industry experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Damon was an associate at Merrill Lynch, responsible for portfolio construction and quantitative research in the hedge fund development and management team. Damon received a B.S. in Engineering from National Taiwan University and an M.B.A. and M.S. joint degree from Case Western Reserve University. He also holds an M.S. in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon University.