VINAY ARUN BHARATH
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EDUCATION
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Brooklyn, NY Master of Science in Financial Engineering Expected 05/21 GPA: 3.8/4.0
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KARNATAKA Surathkal, India Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering
GPA: 8.5/10.0
05/15
TECHNICAL SKILLS / CERTIFICATIONS
• Skills: R, Python, Excel VBA, SQL, SAS
• Certifications: FRM, WorldQuant University Data Science Modules (Scientific Computing & Python for Data Science, Machine Learning & Statistical Analysis), Executive Program in Algorthmic Trading (QuantInsti). COURSEWORK HIGHLIGHTS
• Mathematics & Statistics: Probability Theory, Quantitative Methods, Time Series Analysis
• Finance & Economics: Intro to Derivatives, Risk Management in Finance, Fixed Income Trading, Event-Driven Finance
• Programming: Machine Learning for Finance, Applied Machine Learning EXPERIENCE
ACADIAN ASSET MANAGEMENT, Boston, MA 06/20 - 08/20 Investment Research Intern, Managed Volatility
• Explore fundamental security characteristics that affect its interest rate sensitivity.
• Analyze the performance of risk model by looking at ex ante vs realized beta during crisis periods for different industry groups. WILLIAM O'NEIL INDIA, Bangalore, India
04/16 - 05/19
Quant Analyst, Algo Trading
• Created allocation strategy for stocks picked by in-house analysts by incorporating IBES data into Black-Litterman model. Resulting portfolio outperformed its equal weighted counterpart by more than 15 percentage points.
• Developed market timing strategy for Nasdaq Composite and Nifty 50 indices in line with the firm's flagship CAN SLIM model of investing.
• Built low volatility portfolio of value stocks for Indian equity markets using the Markowitz framework in R. Risk reward characteristics were enhanced by incorporating Kelly criteria.
• Deployed all strategies in Python with $25 Million in AUM at time of departure. EXL SERVICE, Gurgaon, India 07/15 - 12/15
Business Analyst, Corporate Legal Services
• Produced aggregate revenue reports consolidating sales from various businesses and geographies along with KPIs to senior managers using SAS and Excel.
• Gathered and analyzed data on company’s growth drivers and efficacy of new initiatives. WORLDQUANT RESEARCH, Remote Work 10/14 - 03/16
Part-time Research Consultant
• Backtested statistical arbitrage strategies for US equity markets with price-volume, fundamental and analyst data using Websim
(Proprietary web based financial markets simulation tool) and Python.
• Generated technical and fundamental trading signals by applying academic papers in statistical arbitrage and mean reversion. ACADEMIC PROJECTS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 10/19 - 12/19 Enhancing time series momentum using LSTM
• Incorporated a custom loss function to directly optimize for portfolio Sharpe within Keras framework.
• Optimized and backtested the time series momentum strategy for US sector ETFs. AWARDS & COMPETITIONS
• IAQF paper competition 2020 winning team captain. (Team Bobcat)
• UBS Quant Hackathon 2019 finalists.
• Ranked 8th globally in WorldQuant Websim Contest 2014.
• National top 1%, National Standard Examination in Physics 2011.