Kumar Yashaswi

Kumar Yashaswi

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Seeking quant trading, research and data science roles in UK & US | UC Berkeley MFE | Millburn Ridgefield (Hedge Fund) | IIT Kharagpur Mathematics & Computing | Interested in Quantitative Research

  • Education

    • Firayalal Public School

      2013 - 2015
      CBSE-12th Board Science
    • University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

      2023 - 2024
      Master's of Financial Engineering Financial Mathematics
    • Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

      2015 - 2020
      Mathematics and Computing
    • Bombay Scottish School

      2004 - 2013
      High School
  • Experience

    • Cyber Help India

      May 2016 - Jul 2016
      Summer Intern
    • Business Club, IIT Kharagpur

      Jun 2016 - May 2017
      Sub-Head

      B-Club, IIT Kharagpur, is a non-profit organization aiming to familiarize its members, with the technicalities of analytics,finance and consultancy. We strive to enhance our knowledge through in-house workshop, presentation, debates, group discussions. Matters deliberated vary from practical problems to hypothetical ones. The club serves as an excellent interface among students, professionals, faculty and alumni and develops the members into creative thinkers and strategists much before they step into the big world of business. Show less

    • The KGPian Game Theory Society

      Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
      Core Team Member

      Tasks/ Positions of Responsibility:Contributed in the half yearly newsletter- 'The Strategist'.Organizing member in various national events of the society like War of Wits 3.0 and 4.0, IIT Kharagpur; Stratezenith in DTU, Delhi; Battle of Brains, Kshitij , IIT Kharagpur.Worked on publicity and sponsorship for the KGPian Game Theory Society

    • Prayagad Private Limited

      May 2018 - Jul 2018
      Machine Learning Intern

      1) Created an OCR pipeline for ICU monitors leveraging OpenCV, YOLO, and VGG net, obtained a 95% accuracy2) Implemented Apriori and clustering algorithm for generating drug suggestions for client hospitals

    • HSBC

      May 2019 - Jul 2019
      Global Banking and Markets Intern

      Fixed Income E-Trading Team1) Analyzed market microstructure of US Treasury Futures on CME exchange data and estimated latency patterns.2) Created a dashboard using Dash python to measure rates algo performance.

    • HSBC

      Aug 2020 - Jan 2023

      a) Credit Algo Trading- Managed extensive projects for four credit algo-trading desks, analyzed trade and market data through Kdb+.b) Supervised the working of a global framework to measure the performance of algo-trading systems and determine system issues in algo response.c) Worked on projects on flow-metric & algo-trading tools Credit Algo Trading Credit and Rates E-Trading

      • Senior Associate

        Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
      • Associate

        Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
      • Global Banking and Market Analyst

        Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
    • Millburn

      Oct 2023 - Jan 2024
      Quantitative Researcher Intern

      Worked on alpha research, machine learning and econometric models for Systematic Global Macro~10 USD Billion AUM Systematic Hedge Fund

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Neural Networks and Deep Learning

      Coursera
      Oct 2017
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    • Machine Learning

      Coursera
      May 2022
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    • Math Foundations for Financial Engineers Course

      University of California, Berkeley
      Feb 2023
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    • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

      Coursera
      Dec 2017
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    • Python Programming Course

      University of California, Berkeley
      Feb 2023
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    • Statistics for Financial Engineers

      University of California, Berkeley
      Feb 2023
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  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Kumar Yashaswi
      Goldman Sachs Quantify 2017 6th in Machine Learning section across India
    • Awarded to Kumar Yashaswi
      Indian Statistical Institute . Among 120 people in India to clear examination
    • Awarded to Kumar Yashaswi
      Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (Inspire) Scholar -