Ben Cook
Senior Quantitative Researcher - Quantic
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Cook is a Senior Quantitative Researcher based in Cambridge, MA, with 11 years of experience building market-neutral equity strategies and volatility models for options market making. He combines hands-on alpha research, portfolio optimization and multi-factor risk modeling with team leadership and mentoring, having managed a Boston quant team and led cross-desk collaborations. His PhD in computational astrophysics underpins strong machine learning and high-performance computing skills, applied previously to large-scale simulation analysis and deep-learning credit-risk work. Equally comfortable shipping automated gamma strategies and developing low-frequency ML signals, he is also an accomplished teacher and science-communication organizer who brings rare public-facing outreach experience to quantitative finance.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at Harvard UniversityBachelor's Degree, Astrophysics, Bachelor's Degree, Astrophysics at Princeton University
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Github Skills (27)
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bayesian-inference9
react9
monte-carlo9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bacook17/pcmdpy
Dec 2017 - Aug 2019
Code to simulate and evaluate pixel color-magnitude diagrams using python (PCMDPy)
Contributions:345 commits, 264 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 8 months
python
bacook17/Shogun
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:295 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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