Fuad Youssef
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFuad Youssef is a quantitative analyst and trader with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience blending financial engineering, software development, and computational linguistics. Based in Chicago, he currently manages Emerging Markets hard currency and US Treasury relative-value strategies at Neuberger Berman, where he built portfolio replication and rates prediction models that materially cut tracking error and delivered measurable alpha. He holds an MS in Financial Engineering from Columbia and dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Chinese from Georgia Tech, reflecting a rare mix of technical rigor and language/cultural fluency. Prior roles include climate-focused quant research at Mina Analytics and mobile software engineering at NCR, where he shipped production iOS features and extensive data tooling. Fuad’s work stands out for applying machine learning and convex optimization to practical trading problems and for automating complex data extraction with generative AI to streamline ESG research.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies (Chinese), Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies (Chinese) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Financial Engineering, Master of Science - MS Financial Engineering at Columbia UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shady Side Academy
Arabic, French, Chinese, English
Github Skills (13)
stochastic-processes3
principal-component-analysis3
state-space3
statistical-inference2
interval-arithmetic2
fenics2
derivative2
dynamical-systems2
pls2
python2
petsc1
statsmodels1
nonlinear-dynamics1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
renawrli/space-trader
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:74 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
FuadYoussef/UGAHacks5
Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
Submission for UGAHacks5 by Fuad Youssef, Nikhil Chittaluru, Jason Park, and Kevin Park
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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