How I Became a Quant
Description
A panel of financial professionals give a personal view of their careers in Quantitative Finance. Following the panel discussion and questions, attendees will have the opportunity for further interaction with panelists.
Chair:
Dan Rosen, CEO, d1g1t Inc.
Panelists:
Jason Dong, Associate, Equity&Credit Arbitrage and Systematic Risk Management, Balyasny Asset Management
Jason graduated from the MMF program at the UofT in 2018. He started his career as an interest rate derivatives quant at sell side companies for 2 years, after which he joined Polar Asset Management and worked as a Data Scientist. Currently he is working at the Balyasny Asset Management focusing on the Equity and Credit Arbitrage strategies’ Risk Management.
Jeanine Kwong, Head of Enterprise Investment Risk, Global Wealth and Asset Management, Manulife Investment Management
Ancheng Luo, Partner, Quantitative Advisory, MNP
Nick Murphy, Associate, Equity Finance Trading, BMO Capital Markets
Please register here.
Schedule
| 16:00 to 18:00 |
Registered Participants
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Nicholas Adegbe | University of Toronto |
| David Agbeko | University of Toronto |
| Paul Agbekpornu | University of Toronto |
| Sami Ahmed | University of Toronto |
| Anshu Anshu | The Fields Institute |
| Nicholas Anto-Sztrikacs | University of Toronto |
| Sashi Ayyalasomayajula | UT Austin |
| Kevin Bhatla | University of Toronto |
| Florina Burdet | |
| Kay Cheng | University of Toronto |
| Yifan Cheng | University of Toronto |
| Jiarun Chen | University of Toronto |
| Mengyuan Chen | University of Waterloo |
| Winfield Chen | Canoe Financial |
| Bolun Cui | University of Toronto |
| Yahan Cui | University of Toronto |
| Stuti Dave | University of Toronto |
| Chris Defrancesco | McMaster University |
| Arash Dehghan | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| Matthew Dempsey | Royal Bank of Canada |
| Muge Deng | University of Toronto |
| Shuqi Deng | University of Toronto |
| Connor Drew | McMaster University |
| Lijie Fan | University of Toronto |
| Tyler Flake | McMaster University |
| Wenkai Fu | University of Toronto |
| Shuo Gao | McMaster University |
| Madhu Gunasingam | University of Toronto |
| Bochen Guo | McMaster University |
| Lucy Guo | University of Toronto |
| Maarouf Hatab | University of Toronto |
| Vivian Hathaway | RGA |
| Kamyar Hazaveh | University of Toronto |
| Feiyang He | University of Toronto |
| Hanjun He | University of Toronto |
| Ronnie Ho | University of Toronto |
| Zhaowei Huang | McMaster University |
| Reaz Huq | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| Ajjan Inthiran | McMaster University |
| Jialin Jiang | McMaster University |
| Tahir Kanji | |
| Shari Kurgatnikov | University of Toronto |
| Eugene Kwok | University of Toronto |
| Chunyi Lan | York University |
| Parth Laturia | Morgan Stanley |
| S J Lewis | |
| Aojie Li | University of Toronto |
| Lidan Liao | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| Ce Li | McMaster University |
| Jinen Li | McMaster University |
| Kelly Li | University of Toronto |
| Hokiat Lim | University of Toronto |
| Wei Zhe (Nicholas) Lin | University of Toronto |
| Yukai Lin | U Michigan |
| Sebastian Li | |
| Cong Liu | University of Toronto |
| Nicola Liu | University of Toronto |
| Yanda Li | McMaster University |
| Zhiye Luan | University of Toronto |
| Keyi Luo | University of Toronto |
| Saksham Malik | University of Toronto |
| Irvin Martinez | |
| Parsa Mirdehghan | University of Toronto |
| Azel Mulagulova | University of Toronto |
| Prafful Navalagunda | |
| John Ndolo | University of Toronto |
| Son Nguyen | University of Toronto |
| Xiaomai Ni | McMaster University |
| Godfrey Ntherful | Northampton Middle School |
| Harsh M Pareek | University of Toronto |
| Cindy Pei | University of Toronto |
| Yu Peng | University of Toronto |
| Jerry Qi | University of Toronto |
| Marjan Rajabi | SOM |
| Navpreet Randhawa | University of Toronto |
| ktv rao | NICMAR UNIVERSITY PUNE |
| Omar Salaheldin Shahata | University of Toronto |
| Alex S | |
| David Saunders | University of Waterloo |
| Kaiwen Shen | University of Toronto |
| Samarth Sheth | University of California Berkeley |
| Mingwei （Grace） Shi | University |
| Praveen Sivakrishna | Queen's University |
| Nijash Sooriya | McMaster University |
| Chris Stavnitzky | McMaster University |
| Carlos Su | University of Toronto |
| Theo Sun | Scotiabank |
| Ronne Tamayo | OPS |
| Raphael Tang | University of Toronto |
| Tian Tang | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Jay Thye | University of Toronto |
| Olivia Tong | Masters of Financial Insurance |
| Fernanda Vazquez | University of Toronto |
| Bin Wang | University of Toronto |
| Dawei Wang | University of Toronto |
| Lingyu Wang | McMaster University |
| Shuyun Wang | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Ting Wang | University of Toronto |
| FuTe Wong | University of Toronto |
| Kai Wu | University of Toronto |
| Jingyu Xu | University of Toronto |
| Althea Yang | University of Toronto |
| Hanqi Yao | University of Michigan |
| Yuming Yao | Fordham University |
| Ziyang Ye | University of Toronto |
| Anuar Yunes | |
| Linrui Zhang | McMaster University |
| Weizheng Zhang | University of Toronto |
| Xue Ji Zhao | University of Toronto |
| Steven Zhou | University of Toronto |
| Farshid Zoghalchi | University of Toronto |
