Back in September, Quantbot’s CEO Paul White participated in a panel at BattleFin’s conference in London. The panel topic was “How AI is Changing the Quantitative Trading World”, where Paul briefly described how the industry has changed since the financial crisis to today, and how people nowadays are focusing more and more on AI and Machine Learning technologies and using more Alternative Data sources. He then discussed how we value the Alternative Data at Quantbot, and how AI and ML can help us process the data quickly so we can shorten the time preparing the data and spend more time on research and finding alpha.
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"How AI is Chaning the Quantitative Trading World"
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Recruitment continues apace with a visit to Boston for MIT Sloan’s Master of Finance Networking Night. As a premium sponsor on the night we had a great time meeting the graduating class and the incoming class of the MFin program. Joining Katharina Botlo, Quantbot’s Intern Program Coordinator, were Shrinath Viswanathan, a former Quantbot intern and current Quant Researcher, and Rui Xiong, a fellow Quant Researcher, former Quantbot intern and herself an alumni of MIT’s MFin program. We had a great time fielding questions from enthusiastic students who wanted to learn more about opportunities at Quantbot.
Rui, Shrinath, and Katharina ready to meet everyoneTalking to prospective interns!
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It’s officially intern hunting season. After a bumper summer of interns at Quantbot, our office is looking a little empty now and needs to be filled by..more interns! We started our Fall recruitment with our good friends at CMU’s MSCF program. First, at the end of August, we participated for the first time in their annual NYC Trek, where small groups visited various financial companies throughout the city. After hearing a company presentation, the students then had a chance to speak one-on-one with senior quant researchers at Quantbot in smaller breakout rooms. It was a great chance for a section of the incoming MSCF class to visit our new office, ask questions to actual quants about the job, and finish off with some pizza.
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However, we didn’t want to leave the rest of the class without an impression of Quantbot, so we traveled down to their campus on Broad Street to give a company presentation to the whole incoming class. Ashar Maboob, our CIO, started with a run down of the company and what it takes to be a successful quant at Quantbot. Our second speaker, Ricky Der, Director of Quantitative Research, gave a deft overview of the quant research process from alpha generation to trade execution, and the pitfalls along the way. Katharina Botlo, our Intern Program Coordinator finished off the presentation by highlighting Quantbot’s intern program and the opportunities for them to apply for summer 2024. We always enjoy starting off our intern recruitment at CMU and this year was no different!
Ashar, our CIO, giving the introduction to QuantbotRicky, Director of Quantitative ResearchKatharina, our Intern Program Coordinator, speaking about our intern program and the opportunities for 2024.
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On Wednesday, September 13 Quantbot had the pleasure of hosting the NYC Quantum Computing group in our office for their monthly meeting.
Vinod Menon, this month's presenter, gave a presentation on "Half-light half-matter quasiparticles (polaritons) as a platform for Hamiltonian simulators and quantum optical nonlinearity".
Tom Crimi, Quantbot's CTO, giving the opening talk about Quantbot.
It was a great night of discussion with great minds. We look forward to hosting future events in our space as we continue to grow in our space.
Vinod Menon is a Professor of Physics at the City College of New York and doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America (now Optica) and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in Photonics (2018-2020). More details about his group can be found at: https://lanmp.org/
And for those curious as to the content of the presentation: Abstract: Strong light-matter interaction results in the formation of half-light half-matter quasiparticles called polaritons that take on the properties of both its constituents. In this talk I will first introduce the concept of polariton formation in low-dimensional semiconductors. Following this, I will discuss the formation of Bose Einstein like condensates at room temperature using polaritons formed in organic molecules. Approaches to create condensate lattices in such systems and their potential application as Hamiltonian simulators will also be presented. In the second part of the talk, I will present our recent work on polaritons in atomically thin (2D) materials and their potential to reach quantum nonlinearity. Finally, I will discuss our quantum education efforts at the City College of New York (CCNY) including the development of undergraduate level quantum optics lab and the potential for outreach efforts at the high school level using these systems.
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That’s right, Quantbot has moved to a new office space! When just a short time ago we were playing musical desks in an office that couldn’t grow in tandem with our hiring rate, now we have a bright new space that can not only fit all of us (including our many summer interns), but provides plenty of room for future joiners. Overlooking the NYPL and Bryant Park in the heart of Midtown, the new Quantbot headquarters are spacious and comfortable. We even have an outdoor patio for sipping post-work drinks on sunny summer afternoons!
An NYC miracle: outdoor space!Our stunning view of the New York Public Library!The new kitchen; bring on the snacks!
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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 groupAshar 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 competitionThe winning team: CWIQ Sim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkNf04Pz4mk
A big thank you to the team at CodeWilling for making this highlight video!
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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:
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:
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! :D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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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 tonightOur advanced squash team member getting ready for his game with our CIOQuantbot CIO vs. InternPing pong matches were available and quite intenseThe onlookers watching a very intense gameCIO is unstoppable, playing an advanced squash member of QuantbotCIO back at it again, this time vs. the squash instructorQuantbot team members catching a break and chattingThatz a wraaaap everyone~ Look forward to the rest of our summer events! #welit
