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Sanchit Mehrotra

Associate Partner

Delhi, India10 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in quantitative finance and research methodologies.
  • Proven leadership in driving innovation across teams.
  • Strong background in algorithm development for market forecasting.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong quantitative research and algorithm development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative ResearchEquity ResearchC++Python

Other Skills

LinuxUNIXShell ScriptingCQuantitative FinanceData StructuresAlgorithmsProgrammingSoftware EngineeringJavaCore JavaMicrosoft OfficeMatlabJava AppletsCryptography

About

Computer technology enthusiast and quantitative finance researcher interested in latest developments in computer Science, and finance also interested in computer networks,machine learning paradigms and software development processes.

Experience

10 yrs
Total Experience
5 yrs
Average Tenure
9 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Worldquant

5 roles

Senior Regional Research Director

Promoted

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos

  • Driving quantitative research and innovation across regions, delays and assets classes by fostering collaboration amongst teams, advising new researchers and managing domain specific skills and interests.
C++Equity ResearchQuantitative ResearchLinux

Regional Research Director

Jan 2022Jan 2026 · 4 yrs

  • Developing, combining and back-testing algorithms for forecasting price and market behavior across regions, delays and asset classes.
  • Demonstrating leadership in quant growth areas and acquiring expertise in those areas.
  • Disseminating knowledge across the company to help people be aware of existing solutions to problems and fixing them.
  • Advising researchers for more quality and innovative research.

Vice President Research

Promoted

Jul 2019Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Developing and combining algorithms for forecasting price and market behaviour across regions and asset classes.
  • Disseminating knowledge across the company to help people be aware of existing solutions to problems and fixing them.
  • Advising newer researchers for more quality and innovative research

Senior Quantitative Researcher

Jan 2018Jun 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Developing and back-testing algorithms that generate signals to predict the movement of various financial instruments in various regions, intraday as well as daily.
  • Combining these signals to create tradable strategies in various regions across various asset classes, intraday as well as daily.
  • Researching mathematical techniques to optimally create a tradable portfolio from available predictions.

Quantitative Researcher

Jul 2016Dec 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Developing models for various financial instruments to be used as strategies by portfolio managers.
  • These models are fundamentally signals used for hedging across various stocks and exchanges. Typically, these signals also known as alphas have to satisfy strict requirements before being accepted in a strategy.
  • Some of the most basic things include higher sharpe ratio and abnormally high returns supported by historical evidences.
  • Working across various markets including Asia, Europe and Japan.

Defence research and development organisation

Trainee

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Kanpur Area, India (DMSRDE)

  • Working on developing an application for the textile unit to calculate various woven fabric parameters.
  • The application is in JAVA using its graphical features, requires knowledge of basic fabric terminology and derivation of results for circular, elliptic and racetrack cross-sections of the fabric.

Iit bhu varanasi

Teaching Assistant

Jul 2014Dec 2014 · 5 mos · Varanasi Area, India

  • ● Teaching Assistant / Tutor for the course “Computer Programming in C” taught to 1st year students in our college.

Goldman sachs

Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Embassy Golf Links Bangalore

  • The purpose of the project to migrate the current Viking 2.x technology (used for translating trade orders from FIX to IVCOM and vice-versa) for the JapanNext market to Viking 3.x due to the various benefits of the latter over the former.
  • The project also aimed at developing unit as well as automation test cases with maximum test coverage according to a standard test plan and validating the results via log analysis as well as with the actual Japan Exchange Market.
  • The migration reduced the cost and effectively utilized computing resources by using dynamic programming environment.
  • TECHNOLOGIES USED : C++, PYTHON, UNIX / PUTTY, DOCIT, CLIENT SIMULATOR, TRANSACTION LOG PARSER, SHELL / SCRIPTING LANGUAGE,CVS

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Integrated Dual Degree (IDD : Btech. + Mtech.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2016

Mercy Memorial School

Indian School Certificate Examination (Percentage: 97.33%) — Science

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Mercy Memorial School

Indian Certificate of Secondary Education Examination(Percentage: 97.25%)

Jan 1997Jan 2009

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