Aakriti Mittal
Quant researcher at Bloomberg LP
Quant researcher at Bloomberg LP
Bloomberg LP
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New York, New York
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Quant researcher
Graham Capital Management, L.P.
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•	Created a R Shiny app for mean-variance portfolio optimization with long-short positions and liquidity constraints
•	Worked on enhancing the performance of optimizer by using robust covariance matrix and portfolio rebalancing
•	Assessed the relevance and non-linearity of Philips Curve in the light of technological developments and globalization
Rowayton
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Risk Management Intern
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
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• Applied econometric and analytical skills to examine the problem of rising anti-microbial resistance in India
• Investigated causal relationship between prescriptions by untrained physicians and usage of antibiotics
• Trained Fixed effect multivariate regression model on 1M prescription data points using Stata script
Bangalore
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Research Intern, Health Economics
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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• Analyzed returns and volatilities of BSE Sensex and CNX Nifty stock indices by using ARCH and GARCH time series models 
• Studied impact of the Global financial crisis on the Indian financial markets for pre-crisis (2000-06), crisis (2007-10) and post-crisis (2011-14) periods
• Publication: Kulshreshtha, P., and Mittal, A. (2015), “Volatility in the Indian Financial Market Before, During and After the Global Financial Crisis”, Journal of Accounting and Finance, Vol. 15 (5)
IIT Kanpur
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Summer Intern, Financial Economics
Master’s Degree
Financial Engineering
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Columbia University in the City of New York
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Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Economics with Minor in Computer Science & Engineering
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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• Coordinated with a team of 15 students, 4 counsellors, 2 psychiatrists and faculty to envision and organise sessions for the welfare of the campus community
• Envisioned and organised sessions such as Orientation Programme for freshers (2014), Wellness Week and World Suicide Prevention Day
• Conceived the idea of Anonymous Feedback and Referral System to help distressed campus students
• Collaboratively achieved a Zero-termination term by extending help to academically weak students
• Personally tutored 4 academically deficient students and guided them out of Academic Probation
Counselling Service, IIT Kanpur
Core Team Member (Assistant Coordinator, Link Student & Student Guide)
• Worked in a team of 50 people; produced videos of diversified genres like Quit Smoking and Women Empowerment
• Initiated a video-journalism series Insight360 for unbiased representation of the campus news
Films & Media Council, IIT Kanpur
Secretary, Films Club
• Mentored students in intra IITK technical competition and participated in inter-college technical festivals Techkriti’14 and Techfest'14 
• Worked on a Hardware-in-loop simulation project under AARAV Unmanned Systems Pvt. Ltd. in 2013
Science & Technology Council, IIT Kanpur
Secretary, Robotics Club
• Led a 20 member team of Executives responsible for publicity and media coverage of the inter-    college sports festival Udghosh'14
• Contacted print and electronic media partners and managed to achieve two fold increase in the events’ publicity
• Successfully documented all the events of the festival via media coverage
Udghosh, IIT Kanpur
Senior Executive, Media and Publicity Cell
• Estimated short run and long run relationship between exchange rate and exports demand of India
• Employed Vector Error Correction Model and Johansen’s Test for Cointegration using STATA and fore- casted exports demand for India
• Results implied the presence of short run causality from exchange rate to exports demand and long run causality from GDP to exports demand of India
Effect of Exchange Rate on Export Demand of India
ICAEF 2015, The Indian Econometric Society (TIES)
• Employed time series models to estimate volatility in 8 stock indices of India including BSE 100, 200, 500, Sensex and CNX 100, 200, 500, Nifty during 2000-14
• Studied the impact of the Global financial crisis on the returns and volatility of BSE Sensex and CNX Nifty stock indices by splitting the time series into: pre-crisis period(2000-06), crisis period(2007-10) and post crisis period(2011-14)
Volatility in the Indian Financial Market Before, During and After the Global Financial Crisis
Journal of Accounting and Finance, Vol. 15 (5)
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IEOR Department Ambassador
Awarded for the best academic performance among graduating students in Economics Department, IIT Kanpur.
DOAA, IIT-Kanpur
General Proficiency Medal
DORA, IIT-Kanpur
Summer Undergraduate Research Grant for Excellence (SURGE)
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) scholarship
NCERT, Government of India
National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) scholarship
Awarded Academic Excellence Award thrice for outstanding performance in academics for the years 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15
DOSA, IIT-Kanpur
Academic Excellence Award
Applications Programming for Financial Engineering
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Continuous Time Asset Pricing
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Foundations of Financial Engineering
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Machine Learning for OR and FE
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Monte Carlo Simulation
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Optimization Models and Methods for Financial Engineering
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Stochastic Models for Financial Engineering
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Time Series Analysis
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Artificial Intelligence
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Bayesian Data Analysis
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Data Structure and Algorithms
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Econometrics
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Empirical methods in applied microeconomics
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Game Theory
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Industrial Economics
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International Economics and Finance
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Linear Algebra
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Machine Learning Techniques
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Macroeconomics
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Microeconomics
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Probability and Statistics
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Productivity and Efficiency analysis
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Real Analysis
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• Pursued Bayesian methods analysis to analyze influence of demographic factors on crime rate in US
• Created a MATLAB program to estimate Bayesian Quantile Regression model using Gibbs sampling
Bayesian Data Analysis Project
• Modelled SCP paradigm to examine dynamic relationships among industrial parameters for Indian industries
• Identified relevant parameters for 45 manufacturing industries, implemented simultaneous equations framework using two stage least squares (2SLS) estimation techniques in Excel and Stata environment
Industrial Economics Project
• Performed object classification in video data, applied semi-supervised learning approach
• Employed convoluted neural networks and Kalman filter for features extraction, k-nearest neighbour algorithm for classification
Machine Learning Project
• Studied collaboration decisions among students during examinations using Game Theoretic approach
• Modelled and conducted a three stage experiment on a class of 80 multi-disciplinary students
• Formulated the game and designed payoff functions under different circumstances of collaboration
• Results highlighted that more than 50% of students selected partners on the basis of friendship
Collaborate or Compete: A Study on College Students
• Aimed to derive a measure for bilateral trade costs between India and ASEAN countries by extending the work of Novy’s Gravity Redux Model (2011)
• Calculated growth of trade in goods and services as a function of income of the countries, trade barriers, tariff equivalents and income equality
• Worked on simulating regression models to establish relationship between Trade Cost and its parameters as specified in Gravity literature
Trade cost and Trade growth accounting between India and ASEAN nations
Children
National Service Scheme
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Taught school children, conducted surveys and workshops for the upliftment of underprivileged children living in villages around IIT-Kanpur campus.
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Volunteer
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New York, NY
Amine Khanjar
Quantitative Researcher at Bloomberg LP
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New York, NY
Achintya Gopal
Machine Learning Quant Researcher at Bloomberg LP
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New York, NY
Kelby Cheatham
Quantitative Trader, ETF's, Equities, Stat Arb, PM-HFT, FX Arb
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Singapore
Kumar Gautam
APAC Quantitative Equity Strategist  at Bloomberg LP
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New York, NY
KAI LIU
Director at SMBC Capital Markets, Inc.
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New York, NY
Sam Pringle
Team Lead at Bloomberg LP
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New York, NY
Alan Shen
Rates and FX Vol Trader
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New York, NY
Alexander Newman
Quantitative Analyst at North Island Ventures
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Xiao Tang
Trading Assistant (Interest Rate/FX Derivatives) at SMBC Capital Markets, Inc.
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New York, NY
Frances Shi, CFA
Team Lead Liquidity Content Management at Bloomberg LP
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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Octavia Federica Ghelfi
Economist at Amazon
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Mumbai
Jay Gupta
iRageCapital | Trading | Quant Research | IIT Kanpur
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Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Brett Patelsky
Managing Director at Twin Capital Management LLC
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New Windsor, NY
Emmanuel Davis
Finance, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics Major at New York University
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New York, NY
Adam Simon
Analyst
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Brooklyn, NY
Daniel Ryan
Data Scientist at Confluence Global Capital LLC
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San Francisco, CA
Curtis Spencer
Partner and Co-Founder at Electric Capital
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Ithaca, NY
Zhenghong Li
Quant Researcher at Squarepoint Capital
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Greater Chicago Area
Jin Cao
Quantitative Researcher at Citadel LLC
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Kolkata
Aakriti Mittal
Associate at PwC India
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Chandigarh
Aakriti Mittal
SDE @TCS - Digital Cadre || Machine Learning
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North Delhi
Aakriti Mittal
SEP Analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Delhi, India
Aakriti Mittal
MBA’23 at SBM NMIMS, Mumbai, Finance
Columbia IEOR Networking Group
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Quantitative Analytics
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