More about non-Academic Careers for Math PhDs To learn more about Dr. Block or PDT Partners, please see the links below.Florian Block, PhDPDT Partners: PDT, which stands for Process Driven Trading, was founded by Peter Muller in 1993 as a proprietary trading group within Morgan Stanley. In 2013, after establishing a 19-year track record finding inefficiencies…
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A PhD Student’s Perspective on landing an industry position
Yuxin Wang (UM Math PhD 2021) wrote to share her perspective and process on finding a rewarding career after graduation. Yuxin’s advisor was Sijue Wu. Yuxin’s words: My PhD Student Perspective: landing an industry position The purpose of this narrative is to provide a data point about career choices outside of academia. In particular, it…
Invitations to Industry: SIG on Monday
Susquehanna International Group (“SIG”) is again recruiting top Math PhDs to work in quantitative research at their proprietary trading firm in Philly. Among recent UM graduates working (or soon to be working) there are Chris Hammond(UM PhD 2009) and Mark Greenfield(UM PhD 2021, expected). Please come check out what it might be like to…
Quant Research Firm looking for Math PhDs
If you are interested in working in Finance in Chicago, Sunrise Futures is hiring Math PhDs. Below is a message one of their recruiters, Alysha Tardiff, sent to us, looking to hire you! Please reach out to her directly (and let me know how it goes!) From Alysha Tardiff, Vice President, HR | Sunrise Futures,…