Nikhil Boddu Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, New York, United States

• Corporate Equity Derivatives
• Structured buybacks, accelerated share repurchases, enhanced open market repurchases, call spread overlays, collar financing, margin lending

New York, New York, United States

• Institutional Equity Derivatives Trading & Structuring
• Rotations in exotic & corporate derivatives trading, single-name options, structuring/financial engineering, and automated market-making

New York, New York, United States

• Quantitative Strategies Group
• Rotations in fixed-income proprietary trading and international ETF market-making

Stanford, California, United States

• Organized and taught a 12-week long design-thinking intensive program where students learn about the lean startup model and venture capital investing.
• Culminated in pitch competition to partnering venture capitalists. Currently working with firms like Softbank, StartX, and Pear VC.

San Francisco Bay Area

Developed an AI-driven automated early-stage deal sourcing system by consolidating data on startup mission, financial metrics, and founder track record

Menlo Park, California, United States

Sourced deals and met with entrepreneurs of growth-stage startups in enterprise cloud and AI technology sectors

Bangkok Metropolitan Area

• Developed Python property intelligence metrics to provide Southeast Asian investors a score and ranking of the highest potential properties from Thailand’s largest developers
• Created ML models to analyze target marketplaces (Singapore, Hong Kong, etc.) through multiple media channels

Greater St. Louis Area

• Project:
• Studied Wishart Filtering, a novel noise reduction technique used in the Human Connectome Project for fMRI processing and analysis
• Investigated the use of spatio-temporal smoothing in fMRI and compared its performance to various noise reduction methods
• Performed computational analyses on task fMRI, resting state networks, and connectomesWorked under the supervision of Principal Investigator Dr. David Van Essen, Ph.D., and Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Matthew Glasser.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• 2019 summer research placement at the University of OxfordProject:
• Investigated gyral bias in diffusion MRI tractography (dMRI) caused by current method for mapping gyral white matter fibers using discrete streamlines
• Developed a novel method of use of a continuous vector field to map tracts, potentially reducing or eliminating gyral biasWorked under the supervision of Professor Stephen Smith, DPhil, and Professor Saad Jbabdi.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• 2018 summer research placement at the University of PennsylvaniaProject:
• Investigated and created models for building retinotopic maps using functional neuroimaging and the population Receptive Field (pRF) method to decode BOLD hemodynamic response and fMRI confounds/noise
• Analyzed the structure and function of retinal cells and their interaction with the primary visual cortex (V1) and surrounding cortical regions
• Studied how different retinal and neural traits (such as blindness/retinal disease) affect the retinotopic maps of individualsWorked under the supervision of Principal Investigator Dr. Geoffrey Aguirre, M.D., Ph.D.

Greater St. Louis Area

• 2017 summer research placement at Washington University in St. LouisProject:
• Created a Python-based longitudinal scan-similarity algorithm that identified misaligned subject images across scans in the Central Neuroimaging Data Archive (CNDA) at Washington University in St. LouisWorked under the.

Master Of Science - Ms, Management Science & Engineering

GPA: 4.08/4.00 Concentration in Financial Analytics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Symbolic Systems, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa • Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) • Charles R. Blyth Fund • Stanford.

High School Diploma

GPA: 4.67/4.00