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Hi all,
I'm a last year Ph.D. student in ML at good German university, which unfortunately is in ~150th place in CS rankings, but on the other hand, with stellar advisor (h-index ~60, more than 50k citations). I'm interested in HFT/algotrading jobs after my graduation, since I don't like the potential research that I will do in the FAAMGs, but from every side I hear that I stand no chance for those jobs since my Ph.D. is not from "top 10 university".
My current situation is as follows:
- 4 first author publications at most prestigious ML conferences (1x NeurIPS, 1x ICML, and 2x CVPR) (acceptance rate around ~20%).
- 6 month research internship in Nvidia AI.
- Excellent knowledge of stats, probabilities and ML theory.
- 8 years of experience working with Python and ML/math optimization stack, including developing distributed deep learning models that run on >32 GPUs.
Is my profile at least a bit competitive for places like Jane Street/Citadel Securities/Akuna/IMC e.t.c. or am I going to be skipped because of "no name" university? I tried to look at our alumni network, and unfortunately almost everyone ended up in FAAMG or academia so I don't know anyone inside those places.
Thank you for answering!
P.S. I'd like to aim for "Quantiative Researcher/ML Researcher" positions at those companies.
I'm a last year Ph.D. student in ML at good German university, which unfortunately is in ~150th place in CS rankings, but on the other hand, with stellar advisor (h-index ~60, more than 50k citations). I'm interested in HFT/algotrading jobs after my graduation, since I don't like the potential research that I will do in the FAAMGs, but from every side I hear that I stand no chance for those jobs since my Ph.D. is not from "top 10 university".
My current situation is as follows:
- 4 first author publications at most prestigious ML conferences (1x NeurIPS, 1x ICML, and 2x CVPR) (acceptance rate around ~20%).
- 6 month research internship in Nvidia AI.
- Excellent knowledge of stats, probabilities and ML theory.
- 8 years of experience working with Python and ML/math optimization stack, including developing distributed deep learning models that run on >32 GPUs.
Is my profile at least a bit competitive for places like Jane Street/Citadel Securities/Akuna/IMC e.t.c. or am I going to be skipped because of "no name" university? I tried to look at our alumni network, and unfortunately almost everyone ended up in FAAMG or academia so I don't know anyone inside those places.
Thank you for answering!
P.S. I'd like to aim for "Quantiative Researcher/ML Researcher" positions at those companies.
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