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Anushka Pathak
incoming sales & trading @ jefferies
built bystudents in quantitative finance, computer science, mathematics, computer engineering, artificial intelligence, mechanical engineering.
A student-run quantitative investment fund combining rigorous research, advanced technology, and real-world market experience.
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Full-time and internship placements, from Stevens SMIF to careers across quantitative finance, banking, technology, and beyond.
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Portfolio risk, exposure analysis, and the tools behind investment decisions.
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Risk API
A service for calculating risk-screen results and supporting portfolio analysis.
Risk Analytics Engine
A pipeline that assembles formatted risk and optimizer analysis reports.
Risk & Performance Calculations
Calculation workflows for portfolio risk and performance analysis.
The data platforms, research tools, and infrastructure behind the team's work.
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Starline
Web app and API where analysts review factor lists and kick off model runs.
Model Pipeline
Model execution, backtesting, scheduling, and dispatch workflows connect research models to repeatable runs.
Portfolio Optimizer
Convex optimization that turns model output into portfolio weights.
Factor research and modeling focused on fixed income securities.
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Fixed Income Research Hub
A shared workspace of notebooks, models, and scripts supporting fixed income research.
Fall 2026 Research
Current semester workspaces for fixed income research and contributor experiments.
Spring 2026 Research
A research collection covering yield-curve data, forecasts, and model comparisons.
Research into macroeconomic signals and their role in systematic strategies.
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Factor Finder
Correlation and regression analysis of relationships between macroeconomic data and financial sectors.
Global Government Yields & S&P 500 Returns
Research into the relationship between international government yields and monthly index returns.
MacroFundamentals
A workspace for investigating macroeconomic fundamentals and potential investment signals.
Security-level signals and factor models for systematic investment research.
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Security-Specific Factor Finder
Reusable research code and notebooks for creating security-specific factors.
The Model
A modeling workspace for developing and exploring security-specific investment signals.
Congressional Trades Feature
A research feature exploring congressional trading disclosures as a potential signal.
Project planning, cross-team coordination, and research handoffs across the fund.
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collective output.
Commits to the fund’s code, research, and models, one semester at a time.
Fall 2026
Aug 31 to Oct 29, 2026
Contributions
- Total commits
- 276
- Aug 31 to Oct 29
- Best day
- 19
- Oct 2
Average: 4.60 commits / day
Streaks
- Longest streak
- 8 days
- Oct 15 to Oct 22
- Current streak
- 1 day
- Oct 29
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leadership.
Head of Project Management
Sohan Sunkari
prev. modeling @ fannie mae
Head of Development
Kevin Lui
prev. software engineer @ panasonic
Head of Macro
Connor Byhre
prev. data @ spica capital
Head of Security-Specific
Connor Spencer
prev. data @ con edison
Head of Fixed Income
Yuvan Anthony
incoming global markets @ société générale
Head of Risk
Sharath Venkat
prev. investment intern @ fortitude re
faculty supervisors.
Faculty guidance for the fund’s research and investment process.
George Calhoun
Ph.D. in Social Systems Sciences
Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
Jacopo Saccheri
Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonathan Kaufman
Ph.D. in Economics
University of Chicago