Lucien Simpfendoerfer
Head Of Quantitative Analytics
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucien Simpfendoerfer is Head of Quantitative Analytics in New York with 11 years of experience turning complex physical and market systems into clear, testable models. He previously ran commodities research at Millennium Management focused on US power and gas, and built large-scale data pipelines and geospatial analytics for property datasets. Trained as an atmospheric scientist (BS/MS, Penn State), he brings rigorous numerical modeling experience—running and analyzing thousands of Fortran simulations and processing hundreds of gigabytes of observational data—to quantitative finance problems. Lucien combines deep domain expertise in geophysics and energy markets with practical software skills in Python, Matlab, and geospatial libraries, and is motivated by finding simple, self-consistent pictures of complicated systems. An understated strength is his proven ability to translate noisy, disparate datasets into actionable insights under tight timelines.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Arctic Geophysics, Arctic Geophysics at The University Centre in SvalbardMaster of Science - MS, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, 4.00, Master of Science - MS, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, 4.00 at Penn State University
German
Github Skills (3)
python4
hdfs3
azure-blob-storage2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lucien-sim/cloudsat-viz
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
lucien-sim/air-quality-fcst
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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