CISE Industry Roundtable: Kash Balachandran, JP Morgan Chase (Nov. 21st, 12PM)

Kash Balachandran is Vice President and Senior Data Scientist at JP Morgan Chase’s Cash Equities Sales and Trading Desk.  With over a decade of experience in Mathematics and its applications, Kash applies modern data science techniques to help solve real-world problems arising in financial markets.  As a quantitative trader, analyst, and developer – he’s involved in every stage of trading lifecycle, from quantitatively formulating objective functions and the best approach to solve them, to performing the real-time implementation and post-trade analysis. 

Kash received his BA in Mathematics and Physics from Cornell University in 2006, and his PhD from Duke University in Mathematics in 2011.  Until 2014, his postdoctoral fellow was at Boston University in the statistical analysis of network data, after which he joined Morgan Stanley’s FX e-trading desk helping formulate the bank’s quantitative market making and execution strategies before becoming head of execution in 2017.  In 2018, he transitioned into cash equities at JP Morgan as a systematic trader where he remains today.

Adviser: Eric D. Kolaczyk, Professor of Statistics, Affiliated Faculty in Center for Information & Systems Engineering, Program in Bioinformatics, Program in Computational Neuroscience and Division of Systems Engineering

CISE Industry Roundtables are a forum to connect CISE students with CISE alumni to facilitate sharing information, insights, and experiences about post-graduation experiences and opportunities in an informal, dynamic atmosphere.

Registration for this event has closed. To request to be put on a wait list, please email Maureen Stanton at stanton@bu.edu.