Ishan Kinikar
Head of Quantitative Research & Trading @Minutemen Alternative Investment Fund
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Quantitative Research & Trading @Minutemen Alternative Investment Fund
Amherst, MA, US
Fall 2025 (Head of MAIF Quant): Coordinating a 20-person organization and five project teams to develop innovative quantitative trading strategies using AI/ML techniques, while leading outreach to industry professionals- Spring 2025 Semester (Options Team): Led the development of a reinforcement learning based trading agent (AI agent leveraging Proximal Policy Optimization with Stable Baselines) that learned when to make trades hedging options and futures with a 90% win rate, 118.15% returns, and a 3.183 Sharpe Ratio in an October 2024 - April 2025 backtest- Fall 2024 Semester (Options Team): Led an LSTM-based put credit spread trading algorithm, yielding 15.1% returns and 2.71 Sharpe Ratio in a January - June 2024 backtest- Spring 2024 Semester (Equities Team): Implemented a pairs trading algorithm that yielded 3.11% returns and a 2.585 Sharpe Ratio over two weeks of live deployment- Applied advanced statistics and machine learning to analyze and forecast financial time-series data.
ABOUT ISHAN KINIKAR
Rising Senior at UMass Amherst (Computer Science + Applied Math major) Key…
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