Ben Kaehler
Vice President, Quant Strategy
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Kaehler is a Vice President of Quant Strategy in Canberra who builds rigorous, data-driven systems at the intersection of finance, AI, and science. With a PhD in Mathematics and over a decade of experience across derivatives, AI delivery, and evolutionary modeling, he redesigned global interest rate curve frameworks at Macquarie and advanced market-facing AI capabilities. His academic bioinformatics and machine learning work—powering tools like QIIME 2—has thousands of citations, reflecting a rare bridge between high-impact research and production finance. Comfortable moving between code, models, and strategy, he turns complex quantitative problems into practical, scalable solutions and retains an active foothold in academia through visiting and teaching roles.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityMaster's Degree, Quantitative Finance, Master's Degree, Quantitative Finance at University of Technology SydneyUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (50)
taxonomy10
classification10
census10
raw-data10
workitem10
tax10
credit10
sequence10
qiime10
abaqus10
ecology9
scientific-publications9
crossword9
placement9
statistics9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BenKaehler/q2-makarsa
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
A QIIME 2 plugin to generate and visualise microbial networks.
Contributions:22 reviews, 38 commits, 32 PRs in 3 months
qiime
BenKaehler/readytowear
Mar 2019 - Mar 2022
Ready-made Taxonomic Weights Repository
Contributions:2 reviews, 17 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years
crosswordopen-datasetsworkitemturkeybiodiversity
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