Professional Experience
A timeline of my professional journey from hardware engineering to machine learning research and quantitative applications in finance and energy markets.
Deal Structurer
2024 — PresentLeading the application of machine learning and analytics for the structuring and valuation of natural gas and LNG structured assets and long-term bilateral deals.
VP, Machine Learning Lead
2022 — 2024Led Deep Hedging (Equity Derivatives) within the Machine Learning Centre of Excellence.
• Delivered over 2x training performance improvement
• Developed working model for transitioning research code to resilient production systems
• Mentored junior Quantitative Researchers and ML Engineers
Senior Associate
2020 — 2021Led large-scale compute optimisation for risk pricing by designing tokenisation-based data pipelines and applying NLP-driven preprocessing to improve throughput and resource utilisation.
• Accelerated inference for ML models (10s of µs) on a separate optimisation programme
• Implemented privacy-preserving machine learning practices
Research Intern
2019 — 2020Firmwide AI Research - Synthetic data generation for privacy preserving machine learning
Machine Learning Researcher
2018 — 2019Data Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Processes
Marie Curie Research Fellow
2014 — 2015Inference in high dimensional state space models
Research Student
2013 — 2013Applied data fusion and machine learning algorithms for predicting dike stability using pressure and temperature sensors. Sensor data was obtained from EU urban flood management program.
Junior Research Fellow
2010 — 2011Simulation, modelling and characterization of silicon based Single Photon Avalanche Detectors (SPAD) for CERN and TIFR, Ooty labs.
Project Engineer
2008 — 2010Worked as a design engineer for Nortel Networks digital telephone systems. Managed a hardware product design cycle spread over 9 months and 3 continents from concept to field trials.