Private Event

Citadel GQS Machine Learning Tech Talk and Fellowship Info Session

Host

CSAIL Alliances
CSAIL

Citadel’s Global Quantitative Strategies  (GQS) quantitative researchers will introduce you to quantitative finance and show you how the research and skills you are developing during your PhD could translate to a successful career within quantitative finance and at Citadel GQS. We will also share more information and answer questions on the 2025/2026 GQS PhD Fellowship - a no-strings attached $100K grant to fund PhD candidates’ research in math, statistics, engineering, and physics.

 

Food, swag, and networking will be provided! Please register for the session in advance here: https://events.citadel.com/GQS-MIT-Tech-Talk

 

Speaker Bios: 

 

  1. Florian Wechsung, GQS Quantitative Researcher
  2. Wei Tan, GQS Quantitative Researcher

Florian received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Oxford in 2019. Before joining GQS in 2022, Florian was a postdoctoral researcher at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. He now works on alpha research.

 

Wei received his PhD in Control Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2008. Before that, he received his undergraduate degree from the same institution. Before joining Citadel 7 years ago, Wei was a research staff member at IBM. Now, he works on alpha research.