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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Senior quantitative analyst for hedge fund. Role involves building and managing trading systems, both tactical and machine learning based, with a focus on FX and Commodities.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Data Scientist for an AI Fintech. Role involves building tactical and machine learning based trading signals and strategies which are offered to clients, and developing AI offerings.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Senior quantitative analyst for hedge fund. Role involved building and managing trading systems, both tactical and machine learning based, covering FX, Commodities, Interest Rates, and multi assets. Role also involved pitching strategies to clients.

London, United Kingdom

Investment manager for multi billion pound, multi asset class pension fund.Lead for all areas relating to asset allocation, from creating asset class forecasts, researching ideas, and writing and presenting investment proposals.• Develop and improve expected return forecasts for asset classes• Write and present investment views and proposals to the Board of Directors• Develop relationships with multi asset teams to share ideas and seek better insight• Assess all areas of return erosion and sub optimality in the portfolio to improve results• Manage junior analyst’s projects and workflow

London, United Kingdom

Investment analyst for multi billion pound, multi asset class pension fund.Assisted with asset allocation and manager research along with modelling of the portfolio.• Assisted with asset allocation thinking and sharing views on investments• Built and maintained optimisation tools for constructing model portfolios• Developed models for assessing the value add of decisions taken• Assessed manager strategies to be considered in the portfolio• Proposed portfolio changes when the portfolio deviated from the strategic direction• Utilised asset-liability risk software to ensure portfolio was within Trustee set risk limits• Created monthly dashboard and quarterly reports for the Board of Directors

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Trend analysis and graph prediction for the Healthcare Innovations investment team, using the Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG). Role involved:- Extracting keywords from research papers to gain an understanding of growing fields within healthcare- Building a recommendation model using Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) on a citation graph structure, to recommend research articles based on prior read researchLanguages: Python, PyTorch, SQL

Year internship split between developing risk analysis for pooled funds and supporting the monitoring of their pension fund.• Built risk analytic program for suite of funds• Automated the assessment of whether the funds positioning and holdings were within limits• Monitored pension fund positioning and provided views on required actions• Created monthly report outlining key statistics of the pension fund

Data extraction and analysis research project to assess the impact that different property variables e.g. room sizes and the number of bathrooms, have on the value of the property.

Master Of Science - Ms, Statistics With Data Science, Distinction

Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Data Mining and Exploration Reinforcement Learning Statistical Programming Bayesian Data Analysis.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Mathematics And Statistics

Award for top 1st year maths student