Curriculum vitae
Mathematics & Statistics at Oxford, working towards quantitative research and trading.
Education
BA Mathematics & Statistics
2025 – 2028University of Oxford
- Reuben Scholarship holder at Worcester College.
- 91% on the Mathematics Admissions Test — 98th percentile.
- Collections prizes from Worcester College for firsts in the Michaelmas and Hilary term exams.
A-Levels and GCSE
2021 – 2025King's Priory School
- A*A*A* in Further Mathematics, Mathematics and Physics.
- Nine grade 9s and two grade 8s at GCSE; ranked 1st of approximately 150.
- Merit in the British Mathematical Olympiad (2024), and a gold medal in the British Physics Olympiad Experimental Project.
Experience
Quantitative Trading Intern
Jun – Sep 2027Optiver
- Incoming 2027 summer intern, ten weeks in Amsterdam.
QRT Academy — winner
Oct 2025 – Jun 2026Qube Research & Technologies
- Independently built beta-neutral EMEA and AMER equity strategies, reaching a 5-year backtest Sharpe of 2.3 and 2.6 over three months of live paper trading through QRT.
- Automated the full pipeline in Python: live-data signal generation, risk calculation, position sizing and timed submission.
- Presented findings to a panel of QRT's Heads of Research in London at their Insight Day, alongside the other winning entries.
CapitOx Quant Academy
Jan – Jun 2026CapitOx and the Oxford-Man Institute
- Selected for a quantitative research training programme led by Dr Kevin Schneider at the Oxford-Man Institute.
- Independently developed a market-neutral mean-reversion signal with a pre-cost Sharpe of 1.93 (2019–2023).
- One of 12 from 30 selected for an advanced track in Trinity, and to join the CapitOx quantitative team.
Mathematics tutor
Jan 2025 – presentFreelance
- 20+ students taught to date, preparing for Oxbridge admissions or mathematical olympiads.
- Built Mathelo, a rated catalogue of every BMO question from 1993 to 2026, to choose problems by difficulty.
Competitions and projects
Co-President, Oxford Market Making Society
Feb 2026 – present- Won a live trading simulation hosted by Optiver — 1st of approximately 60 society members.
- Elected co-president for 2026–27, sharing responsibility for sponsor relationships (Optiver, Jane Street, Jump, DRW, SIG and others) and for running trading games, market-making simulations and sponsored events.
Market Making Challenge
Aug 2026Akuna Capital
- Built an autonomous market maker for binary options over a week-long competition.
- Priced contracts as a posterior-weighted average of analytic fair values across parameter hypotheses, updated on live outcomes.
- Managed inventory risk and skewed quotes on detected adverse selection under persistent one-sided flow.
Tick-level backtesting engine
Aug – Sep 2026- Built a vectorised backtesting engine from scratch on LSEG tick data, with point-in-time index constituents from Compustat.
- Created identifier mappings to link across vendors, in preparation for high-frequency approaches to upcoming competitions.
BPhO Experimental Olympiad — gold medal
Feb 2024- Produced and analysed a dataset describing the motion of a vertically falling slinky, comparing polynomial and spline interpolation to model noisy data without overfitting, justified in a report.
Skills
- Python (NumPy, SciPy, pandas)
- SQL
- TypeScript
- Portfolio construction
- Market making
- Probability
- Statistical modelling
- Optimisation
- Linear algebra
Outside that
- Part-time climbing instructor for two years, and competing at regional and university level.
- Student admissions ambassador for Oxford Admissions and the Mathematical Institute.
- Progressive metal drummer — eleven years, Grade 8 with distinction.