Summary
Surya Kalia is a quantitative analyst with 10 years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging low-latency trading infrastructure and machine learning research. Currently on the rates desk at III Capital Management and an MS CS student at the University of Chicago, he pairs production-grade HFT systems work—options pricing, risk libraries, and market-data optimization—with rigorous ML/CV research in connectomics and vision. An IIT Delhi alumnus, he previously built latency-sensitive trading toolchains at AlphaGrep and deployed mid-frequency strategies that moved into production at Graviton Research. He is fluent in C++ and Python, comfortable with parallel programming and simulation-style backtests, and has a track record of squeezing incremental alpha from ML-driven features. Notably, his background spans both academic open-source vision datasets and industry-grade post-trade analysis tools, giving him a rare blend of research depth and trading-floor pragmatism.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
Master of Science Computer Science - Data Analytics, Master of Science Computer Science - Data Analytics at University of Chicago
Exchange Student Engineering and Managenent of Complex Systems, Exchange Student Engineering and Managenent of Complex Systems at Ecole des Mines d'Alès