Eric Clinch
Quantitative Research Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Clinch is a Quantitative Research Engineer at Citadel GQS with 11 years of software engineering experience and a strong foundation from Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in machine learning, reinforcement learning, game theory, and optimization, applying advanced game AI techniques to robust strategy development in high-stakes domains. Prior roles include applied research at Strategy Robot—where he built imperfect-information game solutions for defense applications—and internships at Jump Trading and security-focused startups, giving him both research depth and production engineering chops. Based in Chicago, he blends theoretical rigor with practical system-building to deploy models and algorithms under real-world constraints. Colleagues know him for turning complex decision problems into actionable, optimized strategies rather than just theoretical insights.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High school, High school at Texas Academy of Mathematics and ScienceComputer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (3)
jekyll5
science4
computer-science3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
eric-clinch/ParallelMCTS
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:73 commits, 41 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 4 months
eric-clinch/Golad
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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