Achin Agarwal

Co-Founder

Kolkata, West Bengal, India10 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of two quantitative investment firms.
Expertise in AI and machine learning for finance.
Proven track record in developing investment strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert specializing in quantitative investment strategies and AI-driven solutions.

Contact

achin.agarwal@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative FinanceInvestment ManagementStatisticsData Analysis

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAlternative InvestmentsArbitrageBloombergCC++Capital MarketsCommoditiesCorporate FinanceData MiningDatabasesDerivativesEquitiesEquity DerivativesEquity Trading

About

As an investment manager, one always has more ideas than the time to build and test those ideas rigorously and comprehensively. That is where our capabilities come in: whatever the problem statement, we draw upon our deep expertise of several decades, and build a solution for each specific use case. Our systems rely on state-of-the-art machine learning methods across the pipeline. We boast of a quantitative investment pipeline that delivers a complete end-to-end investment solution and is used to build custom, complex, cutting-edge, quantitative systems for all kinds of trading and investing problems.

Experience

Algo one ai

Founder

May 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · Kolkata Area, India

Algo One is a quantitative investment research firm, that specializes in building bespoke AI & ML solutions. We boast of a quantitative investment pipeline that delivers a complete end-to-end investment solution and is used to build custom, complex, cutting-edge, quantitative systems for all kinds of trading and investing problems.
At Algo One, we believe that the future of trading and investment lies in the application of advanced artificial intelligence methods and quantitative processes, and it is in this very domain that we strive to become the market leaders.
We believe that we can look at financial time series data in ways that not many can. Our investment strategies involve the application of theories and models from different scientific fields like artificial intelligence, signal processing, pattern recognition and statistics.

Machine LearningQuantitative FinanceInvestment ManagementData Analysis

Quant one technologies pvt ltd

Founder

May 2015 – Apr 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Kolkata Area, India

Quant One Technologies is a quantitative investment research firm constantly striving to deliver performance that is both significant and consistent, maximizing investment returns while protecting capital. In pursuit of that goal, we employ a variety of quantitative investment strategies coupled with risk management strategies that help to mitigate risk as well as maximize alpha.

Quantitative FinanceRisk ManagementInvestment StrategiesInvestment Management

Barclays capital

Intern

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Singapore

Summer internship in the Datacenter Operations (Asia Pacific) Team

Ge global research

Intern

May 2009 – Jun 2009 · 1 mo

Intern at Computing and Decision Sciences Laboratory, at JFWTC, Bangalore, India. Participated in the Netflix Prize Competition in a team led by Dr. Babu Narayanan. Achieved an improvement in accuracy of 5.22% over Netflix's Cinematch Movie-Recommendation System.

Indian statistical institute, kolkata

Research Project

Nov 2008 – Dec 2008 · 1 mo

Worked under Prof. Bimal Roy on Visual Cryptographic Schemes of Secret Sharing. Implemented a UI which would construct N distinct images (shares) given the original image to be protected as input. None of the N shares would give any information regarding the original image; however, qualified subsets can recover the original image upon physical superimposition.