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Education

  • 2021
    MS in Data Science (GPA 4.0)
    Harvard University
  • 2017
    BS in Computer Science & Mathematics – Class Valedictorian
    The University of Edinburgh

Work Experience

  • 2021–Present
    Senior AI Researcher, Investment AI Group
    BlackRock, New York, NY
    • ML & NLP research for alpha generation, price discovery and transaction-cost models.
    • Deployed real-time corporate-bond pricing model using Gradient Boosting Machines (24 % error reduction).
    • Built enterprise NLP pipelines for extraction of thematic and sentiment signals from unstructured sources (news, SEC filings etc.)
    • Developed multi-agent GenAI framework aiding traders and portfolio managers to perform data analysis and research.
  • 2020–2021
    Data Scientist
    Intelligencia AI, Cambridge, MA
    • Developed NLP/ML models to surface innovation trends in clinical research.
  • 2017–2019
    Analyst, Aladdin Business
    BlackRock, Edinburgh, UK
    • Advised portfolio managers on risk modelling, optimisation and analytics workflows.

Research Experience

  • 2020–2021
    Research Assistant
    Harvard Data-to-Actionable Knowledge Lab
    • Investigated scalable uncertainty-estimation methods for deep learning in safety-critical domains.

Teaching

  • 2020
    Teaching Fellow
    Harvard University
    • Taught the graduate class on Advanced Scientific Computing - Stochastic Methods for Data Analysis,Inference and Optimization.
  • 2024
    Teaching Fellow
    Columbia University
    • Delivered lectures on practical ML/NLP applications for financial markets.

Prizes

  • 2017
    Class Medal — BS CS & Math
    University of Edinburgh
    • Awarded to top overall student across the four-year programme.
  • 2017
    Kevin Clarke Memorial Prize
    University of Edinburgh
    • Highest academic performance in final year of degree.
  • 2016
    Google Prize — Best System Design Project
    University of Edinburgh
    • Our team was selected among 30 other teams for developing an autonomous robot which achieved the greatest performance in the Robocup Competition.