abhiwadhwa


the lion does not have a coherent career path.


Optiver Chicago · 2026
Quantitative Trader Intern

single-stock options. sim desk. greeks, vol surfaces, skew, real-time risk. building systematic quoting strategies off live signals.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Los Angeles · 2025–26
Research Assistant (NASA JPL-funded)

usc math lab on jpl-funded optimization research. benchmarked sgd/svrg convergence on non-convex problems.

Citadel Securities New York · 2026
Quantitative Trading Invitational

commodity futures trading under information asymmetry. re-priced fair value as private signals surfaced and reverse-engineered counterparty algorithms.

Iron Pillar Fund Dubai · 2025
Investment Analyst Intern

covered applied AI, AI/data infra, and devtooling. reviewed pitches and ran technical diligence on RL, RLHF, and human-data startups.

The World Bank Los Angeles · 2024–25
Research Engineer (Contract)

built an ml pipeline reconciling 300k+ geospatial records across shifting census boundaries.

RBC Capital Markets New York · 2024–25
Markets Apprentice

sales & trading apprenticeship across rates, credit, and equities. exposure to derivative pricing, hedging, and risk management across the desk.

USC Marshall Los Angeles · 2024
Research Engineer

causal inference for welfare policy. propensity score matching and nearest-neighbor estimators on 200k+ household records across 120 districts. heterogeneous treatment effects across welfare programs.

UC Berkeley Haas Berkeley · 2021
Research Assistant

causal inference on monetary incentive programs for covid-19 vaccination. difference-in-differences on 200+ counties across 6 states. contributed data and editing work to a paper later published in nature.