Education
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
August, 2022 - December, 2023Master of Science in Computational Finance
- Awarded Academic Excellence in Mathematics Award
- Teaching Assistant: Data Analytics in Finance, Financial Computing, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning 1, MSCF Investments -
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
July, 2016 - July, 2020Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, Minor Area in Economics
- Secured all India rank of 97 in JEE Advanced, 2016
- Awarded Semester Merit scholarship twice
- Leadership: Spearheaded team of 18 to manage and publicize quiz club activities; conducted inter and intra-college quizzes
- Teaching Assistant: Instructed tutorials for 400 students in the Linear Algebra and Differential Equations course
Experience
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Chicago Trading Company, Chicago
June, 2023 - August, 2023Quantitative Trading Analyst, Global Risk Management
- Finite Difference Pricer: Researched and implemented alternating direction explicit method to price options and compared results with other methods like Crank-Nicholson, implicit and Black-Scholes; presented results to the head of quant modeling
- Quantitative Min-Vol Setting: Researched vol regimes for all the portfolios traded by the firm and developed an automated system to detect a low vol regime; drove the model into production to apply appropriate limits on trading options on these -
Quadeye Securities LLP, Gurugram
July, 2020 - May, 2022Quantitative Strategist, High Frequency Options
- Trading Alpha Research: Researched price difference between future and synthetic of stocks on NSE and generated new alpha to increase PnL of strategy by 15% at same sharpe; increased scale by 1.5x to capture market based on alpha
- High Frequnce Trading Strategy: Conceived and drove production of intraday synthetic futures trading strategy
- System Latency: Implemented FPGA strategy to reduce system and order latency by 60% by simulating possible events
- Post-Trade Analysis: Streamlined automated systems to generate daily insights on fill volume and ratio of trading strategies
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Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore
May, 2019 - July, 2019Summer Analyst, FX Options Team and Credit Solutions Team
- Monte Carlo Simulation: Revamped pricing model for Vanilla VKO for G10 currency pairs using Monte Carlo simulations employed globally, and improved performance by 10 times against previous model by leveraging parallel computing
- Credit Analysis: Reviewed automobile securitization in India to prepare investor pitch for products with different risks -
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
May, 2018 - June, 2018Visiting Student Assistant, Professor Costas Courcoubetis
- Algorithm Design: Formulated heuristic version of Sweep Algorithm to find solution for electric truck routing problem
- Data Visualization: Designed code in p5 Processing to visualise route taken by each electric truck in optimized solution
- Sensitivity Analysis: Conducted simulation of model under vital constraints like battery charge, truck capacity and working hours to derive that density of charging stations should at least be 10% of density of customers for smooth functioning
Coursework
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- Mathematics: Stochastic Calculus, Risk Management, Option Pricing, Numerical Methods, Optimization, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations
- Computing: Data Structures, Design of Algorithms, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Parallel Computing
- Finance: Fixed Income, Asset Management, Market Microstructure, Options, Investments
- Statistics: Econometrics, Game Theory, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, Stochastic Processes, Simulations
- Economics: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Economics, Mechanism Design and Auctions
- Programming: C++, Python, R, Java, UNIX, C, Q, HTML
Additional Information
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- Interests: Quizzing - Winner of National CBSE Heritage India Quiz, Trivia, Backpacking, Cricket, Reading
- Languagess: Englist, Hindi, Spanish (Learning)
- Scholarships: NTSE - National Talemt Search Examination, KVPY - Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana, SIA - Singapore Airlines