Ben Champion
Doctoral Candidate
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Champion is a doctoral candidate based in Edinburgh with 12 years of quantitative and engineering experience spanning algorithmic trading, fixed income markets, and medical imaging research. He built a career as a desk quant and ETF pricing specialist at Hudson River Trading and GHCO before returning to academia to develop techniques for solving mixed-integer programs in energy system modelling at the University of Edinburgh. His background blends rigorous mathematical training from Cambridge with hands-on software and data work—C/C#, MATLAB, Perl/Octave and web technologies—from internships through senior trading roles. Comfortable translating between researchers, traders and engineers, he has repeatedly moved between industry and research to solve computationally intensive problems under time pressure. An atypical thread through his career is applying academic-style modelling and tooling to high-frequency market problems and now to energy optimisation, suggesting a strong aptitude for turning theory into production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA+MMath Mathematics, BA+MMath Mathematics at University of CambridgeMathematics Physics, Mathematics Physics at Abbey CollegeMathematics Physics Computer Science Electronics Biology Chemistry German, Mathematics Physics Computer Science Electronics Biology Chemistry German at Moorpark CollegeMathematics Computer Science Economics Politics History English, Mathematics Computer Science Economics Politics History English at Homeschooled/Home-educated
Github Skills (28)
parallel10
linear-optimization10
mixed-integer-programming10
simplex10
parallel-processing10
quadratic-programming10
high-performance10
optimization9
gradient-descent8
python-interface6
clp6
dm5
machine-learning5
solve5
python5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BenChampion/HiGHS
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Linear optimization software
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 days
BenChampion/realworldocaml-book
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
V2 of Real World OCaml
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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