Why Escape the Matrix When
You Can Create Your Own?

A journey through time series analysis, from climate to quant trading.

Quantitative Trading
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Software Development
Time Series Analysis
Ocean and Atmospheric Science
Wireless Communications
Data Engineering
Mathematics
Intro

Hello! I'm Anuj Jain, current UC Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering merit scholar.
I recently graduated from UC San Diego majoring in
Computer Science and Ocean-Atmospheric Sciences with a Math minor. I won highest Jacobs School of Engineering Award - Excellence in CSE given to 1 out of all 350+ graduating students. Previously, I was awarded the highest civilian award for an Indian citizen under 18yrs - India's Prime Minister Balshakti Award in Scholastic Category in 2021.

Quantitative Trading

Derivatives Trading Probability Time-Series Modeling Market Making Cryptocurrency Statistical Arbitrage

Neuberger Berman Built tax-aware portfolio rebalancing strategies while accounting for drift constraints from the model portfolio

• Founded Triton Quantitative Trading club at UC San Diego with 100+ members

• US national top 8 finalist in WorldQuant Championship

• 2nd Place in Algorithmic Trading Competition by NU Fintech Club at Chicago

• Designed and Instructed 1st student-run course on Quantitative Finance at UCSD including topics of options, market making, alpha creation, black scholes model

• IMC Trading Prosperity Challenge Top 7% and Akuna Virtual Trading Competition

• Trained in implementing straddle, iron condor and box spread strategies in real time and optimizing risk-reward profiles at C.R Kothari and Sons Broking

Brevan Howard MFE Industry Project on investigating alternative cryptocurrency on-chain and indicators data from glassnode and Cryptoquant to create alphas

Hivemind Capital MFE Industry Project on high frequency and intraday crypto trading based on volume clock and market microstructure

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning

Regression Classification Clustering Long-Short Term Memory NLP Deep Learning Computer Vision Recommender Systems

• Interned at Qualcomm Technologies as AI Intern on IoT Cloud team

• Integrated a 95% accurate density based spatiotemporal ML clustering algorithm into the Cloud server

• Created a data pipeline to deploy algorithm to the kubernetes using gRPC and REST API calls

• Won AGI House hackathon 2nd prize by Fetch.ai for creating AI Agent for quantitative researchers

Artificial Intelligence

Large Language Models Generative AI AI Agents Natural Language Processing LangChain AI Evaluation Frameworks

• Interned at Neuberger Berman Developed an AI agent evaluation framework using LLM-as-a-Judge and LangChain for a multi-asset AI orchestrator platform

• Designed architecture for integration, smoke, and individual-step evaluations, enabling users to modify evaluation metrics

• AI cleaning and ETL deployment of internal zoom meetings transcripts held daily with portfolio companies

• Interned at Moshi Space Building a Super Quant AI analyst that generates actionable insights for energy traders and portfolio managers

• Extracted and streamed insights from podcasts, with confidence validation through feature engineering

• Deploying audio data fetching pipeline from Listen Notes followed by transcription using Eleven Labs API

Blackrock MFE Industry Project on Syntactical LLMs for earning call transcripts

• Built Semantic Role Labeling(SRL) pipeline that transforms raw financial statements into structured (subject, verb, object, time, magnitude) tuples combining spaCy dependency parsing, rule-based heuristics and transformers

• Created a reusable tree-pattern library that auto-generates extraction mappers with OpenAI GPT-4o

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence
software

Software Development

Python TypeScript Java SQL C++ React Full-Stack Development

• Interned at Art of Problem Solving Inc. as Software Eng. Intern on Platform team

•Created a centralized identity-based access control system for all 1000 AoPS graders and instructors

• Deployed tool into production which reduced need of 4 overhead portals and 50% SQL queries to database

• Hackathon at Stanford, Princeton, UCLA, Qualcomm

Won Ethics and Society impact CSE poster session award

Ocean and Atmospheric Science

Fluid Dynamics Physical Oceanography Data Analysis Numerical Methods Weather Charts Ocean Acoustics

• Won Gold Medal in International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO), 2019 held at South Korea

Spotlighted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography as top performing undergrad

• Selected for Univeristy of Washington's Summer Research Program

• Built 3D CNN and LSTM models to predict El-Niño, an unusual warming of the Pacific Ocean that impacts global rainfall patterns.

• Achieved within 1 std. dev of Oceanic Niño Index predictability

Ocean and Atmospheric Science
wire

Wireless Communications Sensing and Networking Group

Data Analysis Signal Processing MATLAB Remote Sensing IoT

• Assisted in testing novel spoofing mechanism called mmSpoof that does not require synchronization and is resilient to various security features and countermeasures of the victim FMCW radar.

•Contributing in evaluating LoRa IoT Testbed for FSMA algorithm which addresses issue of packet collisions and loss in ALOHA.

• Analyzed testing data to propose improvements.

Data Engineering

SQL Data Pipeline Visualization Database Management Docker

• Created webapp which can analyze user's stocks data and generate technical signals

• Contributed to features engineering for Tesla stock and prediction using ML models

• Wrote SQL queries during internship at AoPS to reduce 50% queries to database and need of 4 overhead portals

Data Engineering
Mathematics

Mathematics

Probability and Statistics Vector Calculus Complex Analysis Partial Differential Equations Graph Theory Numerical Analysis

• 99.77 Percentile in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), India

• IIT Madras Data Science Online Foundational Diploma in Probability and Statistics

• Organized Integration and Probability Competitions at Society of Mathematics Students(SUMS), UCSD

• AMC 12A and RMO Qualifier

• Silver Medalist at International Young Mathematics Contest(IYMC) 2017, Lucknow

• Youngest UCMAS(Mental Arithmetic) qualify for 17th International UCMAS Competition, Malaysia

• Nicknamed "Calculator"

I'm thankful to my Guru, mother, family and friends for supporting me in above journey.