Harish Naik

Engineer in Finance | PhD in Computer Science (Neural Networks) | Exploring Execution Research (Transaction Costs, Slippage, Impact)

Role
Software Engineer at Aquatic Capital Management
Location
Chicago, IL, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Harish Naik

Bridging scalable finance systems with graph-based machine learning research.I am a researcher and engineer with expertise in high-performance computing and a PhD in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and interpretability. My academic work explores the expressivity of GNNs and emerging graph transformer architectures, with an emphasis on explainability and rigorous evaluation.Outside of my professional engineering role, I am building a research focus on execution in financial markets, studying transaction costs, slippage, and market impact. This is an area I am actively learning and developing, with the goal of combining scalable systems knowledge, advanced ML methods, and careful empirical analysis to deepen understanding of execution dynamics and improve trading strategies.

Experience

  1. Software Engineer

    Aquatic Capital Management

    Jun 2020 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

Education

  • University of Illinois Chicago

    Master of Science, Computer Science

    2006 — 2008

  • University of Illinois Chicago

    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science

  • RV College Of Engineering

    Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering

    2000 — 2004

Skills

  • Cuda
  • Boost C++
  • C
  • Programming
  • C/C++ Stl
  • Linux Kernel
  • Linux
  • C++
  • High Performance Computing
  • Gdb
  • Computer Science
  • Qemu
  • Zeromq
  • C#
  • Oop
  • Multithreading
  • Mpi
  • Java
  • Device Drivers
  • Algorithms
  • Design Patterns
  • Git
  • Subversion
  • Distributed Systems
  • Linux Internals
  • Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
  • High Performance Computing (Hpc)
  • Valgrind
  • Software Development
  • Python

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