John Goodacre
Research Student at UCL
Windsor, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Goodacre is a research-focused quantitative finance professional blending eight years of industry experience with deep machine learning training. A former Morgan Stanley fund manager who ran large long-only portfolios and led sector coverage, he later co-founded a hedge fund and served as Head of Risk at a startup, before pivoting to ML-driven algorithmic trading at GSA Capital. Now a research student at UCL pursuing reinforcement learning for finance, he pairs practitioner instincts about markets with hands-on ML expertise from multiple UCL degrees. Notably, his background spans building backtesting and multi-factor risk systems to deploying inter- and intraday ML trading products, giving him a rare end-to-end view from model development to live trading. Based in Windsor, he combines academic rigor with frontline trading experience to tackle practical, data-driven trading problems.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Msc, Computation, Msc, Computation at University of OxfordBSc, Mathematics, BSc, Mathematics at University of SussexUniversity College LondonGithub contributions (5)
jsg71/MRes-Thesis
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
jsg71/Deep-Hedging
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 3 pushes in 8 months
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