Mohammad Amin Khajehnejad

Mohammad Amin Khajehnejad is an electrical engineer and quantitative researcher. He earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in June 2012 (thesis 'Combinatorial Regression and Improved Basis Pursuit for Sparse Estimation', advisor Babak Hassibi), for which he received the Wilts Prize for outstanding research in electrical engineering, plus MS and BS degrees in EE from Caltech (2009) and the University of Tehran (2007). After Caltech he worked in quantitative finance, spending 2012-2020 at 3Red Partners in Chicago, rising to Lead Quantitative Researcher/Trader, and he held an internship and consulting appointments including D. E. Shaw & Co. From 2020 to 2024 he was Model Engineering Manager at Ghost Autonomy (autonomous driving), then Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures in 2024, and Head of Machine Learning Research at Eisler Capital in 2024-2025. His research spans statistical signal processing, information theory, sparse recovery and machine learning.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Khajehnejad held actual quantitative-finance roles, not just student programs: he was Lead Quantitative Researcher/Trader at 3Red Partners (Chicago) from 2012 to 2020, independently described as 'Quantitative Researcher, 3red Partners' on a 2019 Princeton/IIT quant-finance conference agenda, and 3Red Partners is a proprietary trading firm; he also held an Intern role in the Futures Group at The D. E. Shaw Group (2012) and is listed among D. E. Shaw consulting appointments in his 2013 NYU speaker bio. Identity is supported by matching name, Caltech PhD, and 3Red/D. E. Shaw consistent across LinkedIn enrichment (index-only), the NYU bio and Google Scholar. Eisler Capital (2024-2025) and Sutter Hill Ventures are finance/VC roles but are not themselves quantitative-trading roles.2012
• Career timeline (from LinkedIn enrichment, index-only): NEC Laboratories America Summer Research Assistant 2010; The D. E. Shaw Group Intern, Futures Group, 2012; 3Red Partners 2012-2020 rising to Lead Quantitative Researcher/Trader; Ghost Autonomy Model Engineering Manager 2020-2024; Sutter Hill Ventures Entrepreneur in Residence 2024; Eisler Capital Head of Machine Learning Research 2024-2025.
• NYU Tandon (2013) speaker bio states his consulting appointments included Lyric Semiconductor Inc., NEC Laboratories America, Proteus Digital Health and D.E. Shaw & Co., and cites the PhD thesis and Wilts Prize - an independent, non-index corroboration of the D.E. Shaw connection.Apr 1, 2013
• Earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Caltech (June 2012), MSc from Caltech (2007-2009) and BSc from University of Tehran (2003-2007); research on sparse estimation and information theory under Babak Hassibi.
• 3Red Partners LLC filed a breach-of-contract suit against Mohammadamin Khajehnejad in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in August 2020 (case 1:20-cv-05064), terminated September 10, 2020; the case dates align with his 2020 departure from 3Red.Aug 27, 2020
• Gave a talk 'Combinatorial Regression Techniques for Sparse Processing' at NYU Tandon in 2013 covering sparse/low-rank recovery with applications including prediction of financial market events, indicating his research-to-finance bridge spans compressed sensing and market-microstructure modelling.Apr 1, 2013
• Listed on the Caltech Hassibi group alumni page with the annotation '(D.E.Shaw)', a further non-index page tying his post-PhD destination to The D. E. Shaw Group.
• Google Scholar profile 'Amin khajehnejad' records ~1,013 citations, h-index 13, i10-index 16, with co-authors Babak Hassibi and Salman Avestimehr - establishing a substantial academic publication record in signal processing and information theory.
• 2024 Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures after leaving autonomous-driving startup Ghost Autonomy - a venture-side role between his ML-industry and Eisler Capital positions.2024
• Appeared as a speaker ('Amin Khajehnejad, Quantitative Researcher, 3red Partners') on the Princeton Fintech & Quant Conference Fall 2019 Chicago agenda, evidencing active quant-finance community participation while at 3Red.Jan 1, 2019