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Why WorldQuant: Insight for Impact

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Why WorldQuant: Insight for Impact

Ashish Kulkarni, Vice President, Research, is part of a ‘team of teams.’

What brought me to WorldQuant is the innovative culture. There is a lot of room for exploration.

My background is in engineering. I did my undergrad in chemical engineering, and then after that I got two graduate degrees, one in engineering and the other one in information theory at MIT. Back in 2014 I joined WorldQuant. It was an awesome opportunity to enter the statistical arbitrage space.

We have a team-of-teams approach here, and that allows you to innovate and be creative across multiple disciplines.

You get to see a lot more verticals of the business, so you see data, you see research, tech and PM. You gain a much broader appreciation for the business that is hard to get at other places. I have had the opportunity to stay abreast of a lot of new tech, artificial intelligence, machine learning. There is a lot more automation making us more productive and staying on the cutting edge.

It’s exciting to be part of this journey and to evolve.