#quantitative-finance

#quantitative-finance

Competition for top quant talent has never been stiffer. With top hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms in expansion mode - and increasingly encroaching on the same turf - the mathematicians, physicists, data scientists, and engineers who power them are in high demand. The emergence of AI labs, which can outbid even the top-tier finance firms with war chests of tens of billions in capital, has only ratcheted up the competition.

When I was at the Wharton School, quantitative finance was in its infancy. Now, it is an essential discipline in this data-driven world,

After two years at SpaceX, I felt ready to take on new challenges and expand my skill set into a different high-performance environment.

Hao Zhang, a top quant researcher at Two Sigma, pioneered machine learning trading research, generating billions in profits before planning to launch Hippocampus Capital Management in 2026.