Udai Nagpal
Associate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUdai Nagpal is an Associate on Goldman Sachs’ Quantitative Investment Strategies team, bringing a decade of experience building systematic equity portfolios and alpha research. He blends a strong academic foundation in computer science from Columbia with hands-on ML and computational biology research, having applied HMMs and other probabilistic models to genomics problems. Udai co-founded NewsCracker, developing a sophisticated Python-based fact‑checking engine that leverages NLP and statistics—an early signal of his interest in automated, data-driven decision systems. His background spans VC analytics, market risk visualization, and production quant workflows, enabling him to move models from research into trading. Based in New York, he combines deep quantitative rigor with product-minded delivery, often surfacing novel cross-disciplinary approaches informed by biology and finance.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Collegiate SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (8)
react5
firefox-addon2
chrome-extension2
git-addons2
git1
chrome1
browser1
browser-extension1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CUEWB/cuewb.github.io
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:264 commits, 231 pushes in 2 years 8 months
react
unagpal/Active-Learning-in-CNNs-via-Expected-Improvement-Maximization
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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