Aayush Kashyap Email & Phone Number

Durham, Nc, Us

Treasurer of Lambda Nu chapter. Oversee budgeting, financial records, and fundraising to support community service in Durham.

Assist the treasurer in ensuring the financial well-being of the Engineering Student Government.

Support residents by organizing monthly community-building events and mediating any conflicts.Collaborate with university staff to ensure all policies are followed and any emergencies are managed.

Selected for Catalyst, a highly selective pre-professional tech society, known for its commitment to developing technical skills and fostering industry connections among undergraduate students.Engage in student-led workshops, collaborative projects, and professional development activities to advance programming skills and develop connections with alumni.

Used Python and Javascript to build a visualization tool for other quantitative researchers to observe signal changes, market data, and trade/order information for high-frequency trading.Used C++ to improve the objective function by incorporating optimization of factors such as Sharpe ratio.Implemented machine learning methods such as bootstrapping to improve the firm’s trading performance on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).Monitored and evaluated performance metrics such as profit & loss, trade count, maximum drawdown, and simulation reconciliation for various securities being traded.Researched machine learning methods such as k-fold cross-validation, support vector machines, and regularization techniques to improve predictive performance of signals.

Supervisor: Dr. Jenna McHenry, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University.Work in the Computational Team to compile training data for deep neural nets to classify social behaviors in mice.

Supervisor: Dr. Ashutosh Kotwal, Department of Physics, Duke University.Work in a small research team to encode AI algorithms in transistor-level design of integrated circuits.

Sergeant-at-Arms of Lambda Nu chapter. Planned and organized meetings, managed disciplinary actions, and provided detailed reports to the Chapter Secretary.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Conducted machine learning research on optimal model selection for forecasting cryptocurrency price movements under Dr. Haizhi Wang in the Stuart School of Business.