Justin Zhang
Incoming Quantitative Trading Intern
Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Zhang is an MIT student and researcher blending deep mathematics with machine learning and quantitative finance, currently interning on Virtu Financial’s Client Market Making desk and researching multimodal intelligence at MIT’s Multisensory Intelligence Group. He has a strong track record of published research (ICLR 2026 paper) and rigorous math training through MIT PRIMES and Ross, producing multiple papers and conference presentations. Justin pairs practical ML engineering experience—building financial exchange infrastructure and product-forecasting models—with AI safety and scalable evaluation work that won an Impact Research Initiative prize. Comfortable moving between theory and production, he leverages stochastic process knowledge and Tree Pruning RL methods for novel puzzle-agent research. Based in Ridgewood, NJ, he brings 15 years of technical experience and an uncommon blend of competitive quantitative instincts and research-first curiosity.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAcademy of Science and Technology (AAST), Academy of Science and Technology (AAST) at Bergen County AcademiesGithub contributions (1)
raeez/decaf
Mar 2011 - Apr 2011
Contributions:17 commits in 20 days
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