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PhD Datathon Co-hosted by Quantbot Technologies

Back on April 14, Quantbot Technologies, along with Schonfeld Strategic Advisors and Code Willing, had the pleasure of hosting a PhD-focused Datathon, featuring participating students from across the United States. The event started with presentations from the three data vendors that freely provided their data for the Datathon: Estimize, Wall Street Horizon, and RedGraphs. Each team was then given 3 hours to run backtests, using the data provided by the vendors, to generate alpha and develop an out-of-sample strategy.

Paul White, Quantbot Technologies CEO, gives opening remarks to the group
Ashar Mahboob, Quantbot Technologies CIO, watches as Schonfeld Strategic Advisors CEO, Ryan Tolkin, starts the competition portion of the event.

Each team was provided with a senior mentor. Two of Quantbot’s researchers, Keywan and Zihao, each mentored a team where they dispensed expert advice on how the students should build and tweak their strategies. The most successful strategy across several parameters was deemed the winner. Congratulations to CWIQ team Sim for your win!

Keywan, Quantbot researcher, mentors his team during the competition.
Zihao, the other Quantbot mentor and researcher, advises his team during the competition
The winning team: CWIQ Sim
A big thank you to the team at CodeWilling for making this highlight video!
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Neudata Data Insights & Scouting Summit Speaker

Last week, Quantbot’s CEO and co-founder, Paul White, had the opportunity to speak at Neudata’s biggest quarterly event yet: Data Insights & Scouting Summit-Autumn Edition. From September 20-23, over 1000 people attended the panels, presentations, and discussions from the biggest names within the alternative data industry. Chosen as one of 40 speakers, Paul presented “Data About Data: Measuring ROI” where he discussed how we can use metrics to better understand data sets and their respective ROI.

Paul enjoyed getting the opportunity to speak at and attend the Neudata Summit.

If you’d like to view Paul’s presentation, you can do so below:

Data About Data: Measuring ROI
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Neudata Summer Online Summit 2021 Speaker, Paul White

Quantbot CEO and Co-founder, Paul White, was one of the presenters at the Neudata Summer Alt Data Summit. Paul’s talk ‘Data is Everything’ discussed how Quantbot manages its ever growing data science demands using tools from CodeWilling and Options IT for smart task routing in the private and public clouds.

 

For more information regarding the presentation, please see Presentation link below:

Presentation_Neudata Alt Data Summit_Paul White June 15 2021

 

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Another Year, Another Night of Sake

It’s June, and as per Quantbot tradition, we found ourselves at the annual Joy of Sake event last week! Along with excellent food from local NYC restaurants, there was the usual overwhelming choice of sakes to try. We had a great turnout from our office this year and had a blast trying out the food samples and sakes on offer. Needless to say we’re already looking forward to next year!

こんにちは~ Hello ~ The event that brings the widest smiles all around

:+1:

   

See you next time! 😀

ありがとうございます~

 

Bonus:

Top: Sakagura East Village Bouchee (Summer Truffle Chicken Pate 2nd row left: Takashi Yooke Gunkan (Hand-sliced Korean-style Kobe Tartare sushi gunkan) 2nd row right: Morimoto NYC Hamachi + Koji Ponzu (Hamachi Tartare with koji, jalapeno, pickled jalapeno and kyuri.) Third row: Left to Rogjuma Bond St Copper River Salmon Trifle (tosazu, soy milk pudding, fresh wasabi cucumber salsa) Zuma Spicy Tuna Handroll with pickled cucumber and tenkasu SakaMai Foie Gras Monaka (Foie gras mousse, miso duck, fig, mochi wafer) Nikutei Futago Wagyu and Summer Vegetable (Papaya wrapped with wagyu, corn gelee and eggplant miso) Momofuku Ssäm Bar Hot Fried Chicken (Double-fried Chicken, cucumbers, jalapeno, vinegar, Thai chili oil)

 

 

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Quantbot and the Squash

Last Wednesday the company (interns included!) rolled into the Princeton Club in NYC for spirited games of squash and ping pong. Bouncing between racket, paddle and plates of food we had fun learning how to play squash, and watching the more competitive of us challenge each other to games. After a brief intro lesson to squash, we got into the swing of things and played games with gusto. Our interns took this chance to play and chat with others in the company, and even got some points against our more experienced players! All of us had a ball and we’re ready to have another whack at it soon!

CIO warming up and getting ready for the intense matches he’ll be facing tonight

Our advanced squash team member getting ready for his game with our CIO

Who do you think won?
Quantbot CIO vs. Intern

Ping pong matches were available and quite intense

The onlookers watching a very intense game

CIO is unstoppable, playing an advanced squash member of Quantbot

CIO back at it again, this time vs. the squash instructor

Quantbot team members catching a break and chatting

Thatz a wraaaap everyone~ Look forward to the rest of our summer events! #welit

 

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Quantbot Celebrates A Decade!

On March 27th, Quantbot Technologies turned 10!! The US Team celebrated with a presentation by our President Paul White with flashbacks from the past, drinks (lots) , and an amazing team dinner at Zuma NYC. Everyone was full of smiles and laughter all night long !

The US Quantbot Family~ (missing a few) #issalit

Ops (s)quad~

Our Quantbot Partners looking extra happy 🙂 (missing one)

Cheers to many more years to come! 😀 #issavibe

Bonus Zuma Dessert Platter : Trying out different ranges of dessert, from Yuzu cheesecake to Banana Bread to Molten Lava Cake to many many more ranges of delicious fruits !

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Seminar at University of Bonn in Germany

Our CEO gave a seminar in February 2019 about the linkage between physics and quantitative finance to students at the University of Bonn in Germany. The lecture was followed by lively Question and Answer session since many in the audience realized for the first time the close connection between, for example, black-sholes and the heat equation.