Varun Bhardwaj

AI Researcher

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in developing trading strategies with proven returns.
Led global data science initiatives with thousands of participants.
Designed advanced AI pipelines for multilingual tasks.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and AI Research specialist with strong data analytics capabilities.

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Data AnalyticsMachine Learning

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)C++Computer VisionData ScienceDeep LearningEnglishNatural Language Processing (NLP)PyTextPyTorchPython (Programming Language)Scikit-Learnopen cv

Experience

Squarepoint capital

Desk Quant

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

I specialize in trading non-equities and optimizing execution performance across diverse markets. Key achievements include successfully transitioning foreign exchange flows from London to New York, building an electronic trading strategy for Credit Default Swaps from the ground up, and designing strategies for futures trading in Asian markets. Additionally, I have developed high-frequency trading signals and VWAP/TWAP execution logic, significantly improving execution costs across various asset classes.

Data AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningPython (Programming Language)Deep LearningData Science+7

Worldquant

Research Consultant

Jul 2023 – Dec 2023 · 5 mos

Developed over 100+ uncorrelated trading strategies with 9 successfully deployed in production. Strategies were rigorously backtested on 10 years of US equity market data, achieving annual returns of 10–50% and Sharpe ratios between 1.25 and 4.45 across the USA and China regions.

Data AnalyticsMachine Learning

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Quantitative Research Intern

May 2023 – Jul 2023 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Created automated CCAR(Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review) report generation scripts for FRB stress-testing, incorporating interest rate volatility and SOFR rate shocks. Developed portfolio valuation and PnL analysis tools to effectively assess the impact of interest rate and volatility stress scenarios.

Data AnalyticsMachine LearningPython (Programming Language)

Ibm

AI Research Intern

May 2022 – Jul 2022 · 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Designed an end-to-end pipeline leveraging ColBERT and XLM-RoBERTa for retrieval and reading tasks. Trained ColBERT on semantically similar multilingual datasets, achieving a 50% MRR improvement for low-resource Indic languages (e.g., Punjabi, Oriya) and up to 10% for high-resource languages (e.g., Hindi, Bengali).

Data AnalyticsMachine Learning

Consulting and analytics club, iit guwahati

2 roles

Analytics Head

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Apr 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr · Guwahati, Assam, India

Organized and conducted global data science initiatives, including a Summer Analytics course with 7k+ participants from 50+ countries and sessions on Time Series Analysis with 2k+ attendees. Hosted international hackathons with 3k+ registrations and delivered multiple workshops on ML, DL, and Time Series topics.

Data AnalyticsMachine Learning