Ainur Kazykhanov

Machine Learning Engineer with 8 years of experience in startups and hedge funds. Expertise lies in Programming, Machine Learning, Trading and Robotics. My curiosity led me to start solving challenging tasks in quantitative finance, which at the end helped to scale AI-backed venture project within a multi-billion US hedge fund. Led ML team on fantastic project aimed to build an AI for human like robot FEDOR. 

I am deeply interested in technologies and inspired by how they can improve our lives. I strongly believe that AI may help to solve many of todays' challenges and make a world a better place. Tools and technologies used: Python, ML, DL, RL, Linux, bash, SQL, Git, Docker, CI/CD, AWS, Heroku, DigitalOcean, FastAPI, JS, HTML, CSS.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Meson Gravity Technologies. Jun 2021 - Present.

• AI-backed startup hedge fund within the $700M Meson Capital discretionary investment fund.
• Lead building a pipeline for ML-backed investment portfolio construction in the US equity market.
• Improved portfolio returns stability by developing risk-management infrastructure that controls risk-factor bets and does volatility targeting.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Trexquant Investment. Sep 2017 - Jun 2021.

• USA based multi-billion hedge fund doing medium frequency statistical arbitrage on global equity markets.
• Developed AI-backed investment strategies with ideas like ensemble models, Deep Learning, memory based Reinforcement Learning agents etc. Duties included building ML models, investment portfolio construction, evaluation and deploying on trading platform.

Team Lead ML

Gumich. Jun 2019 - Feb 2020.

• R&D company creating AI-backed robots for civil purposes.
• Led the team building human like robot’s AI (robot FEDOR).
• Trained a 3D model of robot to accomplish basic tasks by using Reinforcement Learning and motion capture data (tasks included to walk and run following a target, jump over obstacles, take items from the table and open the door).

Data Scientist

Elbor Capital. Dec 2016 - Sep 2017.

• $20M hedge fund doing discretionary investments in US equities. 
• Diversified company revenue and earned a 12% YoY return on capital by developing an ML-backed investment strategy. Duties included data mining, features generating, ML model building and evaluation (back testing).

Trader

OSTC Ltd. Dec 2013 - Jul 2015.

• London based proprietary trading firm working on FICC derivatives market.
• Traded interest rate derivatives across global markets.

Higher School of Economics (Top-3 University in Russia)

MSc in Economics, Financial Mathematics. 2011 - 2013.

Activities and societies: HSE Investors Club. Co-Founder. (Responsible for Commodities Trading Department development)Activities and societies: HSE Investors Club. Co-Founder. (Responsible for Commodities Trading Department development)

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) (Top-3 University in Russia)

BSc in Economics, Financial Mathematics. 2007 - 2011.