Iskandar Atakhodjaev

Co-Founder

New York City13 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Ph.D. in Physics with a focus on machine learning.
Over 10 years of experience in data analysis and machine learning.
Expertise in applied optics and finance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning Engineer with expertise in Fintech and Research.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine Learning

Other Skills

Data AnalysisData StructuresNumerical MethodsJavaC++ LanguageMatlabMicrosoft SQL ServerEclipseMySQLCUDAQuantitative FinanceStochastic ProcessesAdvanced Statistical MechanicsObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Nonlinear Optics

About

Ph.D. in Physics and M.S. in CS with passion about data and machine learning. More than 10 years of practical hands on experience in machine learning and data analysis in fields such as applied optics and finance. Love hiking, snowboarding and investing at my free time. Skills : Python, SQL, Spark, Machine Learning, Deep Learning.

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

9 mos

Current Experience

Boldvoice

Machine Learning Research Engineer

Sep 2025 – Present · 9 mos · New York, United States

Cloudflare

Data Scientist

Jun 2021 – Sep 2021 · 3 mos · Remote

Jpmorgan chase & co.

2 roles

Quantitative Research Associate

Oct 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Quantitative Research Summer Associate

Jun 2017 – Sep 2017 · 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Chief Investment Office team with the goal on managing the balance sheet of the firm.
Collaborated with Deposit Modeling team on designing a stochastic model of corporate long term debt issuance by using the econometrics techniques and optimization algorithms.
Built a model for optimal interest rates in auto loans origination market and researched on the competitors’ auto loan pricing methodologies.

Intuition, llc

Co-Founder

Aug 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Co-Founder/CTO of trending entertainment industry in Russia, providing services in escape room games.

The johns hopkins university

2 roles

Research Assistant

Promoted

Sep 2012 – Aug 2018 · 5 yrs 11 mos

Developed a set of Machine Learning attacks against proprietary in-lab designed cryptographic hardware device and proved its stability and high security.
Experimentally demonstrated the reliability of two party communication and failure to eavesdrop it
Ph. D. Thesis: "Machine Learning Attacks on Optical Physical Unclonable Functions"
Academic Supervisors: M. A. Foster, P. N. Armitage

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2012 – Sep 2016 · 4 yrs

Taught the General Physics and General Physics Labs classes of 150+ of freshmen/sophomore student.

Amphora labs,llc

Senior Engineer's Assistant

Mar 2011 – Nov 2011 · 8 mos · Moscow

Researched the market growth of innovation technologies in Russia, particularly in high-resolving optical microscopes.
Learned the elements of manufacturing process of high-tech devices and aspects of innovation management and strategy.
Participated in high-tech exposition RusNanoTech - 2011 and made the presentations about the microscope’s features.