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LocationSan Jose, California, United States
Company sitegoogle.com
UniversityColumbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
C++PythonRModelingQuantitative ResearchQuantitative InvestingMathematical ModelingDistributed SystemsQuantitative FinanceTime Series AnalysisMachine LearningTrading StrategiesUnixMonte Carlo SimulationHadoopPredictive ModelingStatisticsAnalysisQuantitative AnalyticsEquitiesAlgorithmsTradingPerl
Notes
- Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. LinkedIn-index (only) shows actual roles as Associate Quantitative Trader at Merrill Lynch (2010-2011) doing equity quant research/trading and VWAP execution, and Desk Strategist at Morgan Stanley (2009-2010) as a quantitative strategist on the US Corporate Structured Credit desk. Both employers operate in quantitative finance and the roles are genuine employment, but the claims currently rest on the LinkedIn index alone; no independent primary-source page yet corroborates them. Retaining UNRESOLVED pending a primary-source check.2026
- Identity match: the LinkedIn profile is a mathematician with a 2008 Columbia PhD in Mathematics and a 1998-2002 MIT BS in Mathematics and Computer Engineering/Science, matching the Olympiad competitor (Trinidad & Tobago, IMO 1997 and IOI 1997) who trained mathematically and left the Caribbean for MIT. Index/LinkedIn fields only.2026
- Wikidata Q102352693 describes Yogishwar Maharaj as 'Ph.D. Columbia University 2008', an independent (non-LinkedIn) anchor for the Columbia mathematics doctorate.2008
- IMO/IOI record: contestant listed for Trinidad & Tobago across 1995-1998 (CPHOF timeline), with an IOI 1997 result (rank 215).1997
Experience
Data Scientist at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Risk Management at PayPal
Measurement and Experimentation including experimental test design, longitudinal and cross-sectional analysis of fraud risk data. Monte Carlo simulations and stochastic optimizati
Associate Quantitative Trader at Merrill Lynch
Quantitative research and trading in Equity at both high and low frequency. Correlation matrix estimation. VWAP order execution.
Desk Strategist at Morgan Stanley
Quantitative Strategist on the US Corporate Structured Credit desk. Role included quantitative analysis, risk analytics and modeling tasks.
Education
Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., Mathematics, Computer Engineering and Computer Science
AchievementsHonourable Mention, International Mathematical Olympiad 1997 (Trinidad & Tobago), 8 points · Ph.D. in Mathematics, Columbia University (2008) · B.S. in Mathematics, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (1998-2002)
AwardsHonourable Mention, International Mathematical Olympiad 1997
Profiles
Competition record
Trinidad and Tobago · IMO