Nishil Kulkarni

Hey there! I am Nishil —an ECE graduate from BITS Pilani. I have spent four wonderful years at BITS making friends, chasing deadlines, exploring new ideas, and creating memories that will last a lifetime! I am now joining the quantitative hedge fund Trexquant as a full-time Quantitative Researcher this August!

I'm passionate about machine learning and financial markets. I am an engineer at heart and I love to solve practical problems. My love for mathematics and this amazing course by the amazing MIT Sloan Professor Andrew Lo is the reason I have been so much interested in this field. I spent my undergrad years dabbling around with several ML applications (Healthcare, Language Understanding, etc.). These days, I enjoy reading more on signal processing and reinforcement learning, and I make it a point to keep up with the daily Wall Street Journal. Aside from work, I am a professional badminton player and an athlete, and yes- I love to teach! I also enjoy outdoor activitites- hiking, and mountain biking, and I wish to find more peaceful time to pursue these :)

So, take a look around! If you want to talk shop, or if you feel like you need a jogging buddy :P or you just want to say hi - I am only a text away!

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Experience

Below are a few details about my past internships and research experience.

Research on Graph Representation Learning. Developed a novel Graph Convolutional Layer and made it open source! Find out more about my work here.

Learnt a ton about financial securities and their modelling (Fixed Income, Options, Swaps, Structured Products, Exotic Derivatives, etc.). Also performed some research on improving existing proprietary risk models for multiple asset classes.

My first stint at developing "alpha" trading algorithms! Learnt so much about systematic strategies, backtesting, etc.

Thanks for the website template offered by Jon Barron.