Alexandros (Alex) Nathan

Algorithmic Trading | PhD in Data Science

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

About

Experience

  • Co-Founder | VP Analytics at Metrika
    Oct 2019 - Sep 2024 · 5 yrs

    At Metrika we're helping financial institutions accelerate their digital assets journey through our end-to-end risk management platform.

  • Corporate Training Instructor at Metis
    Jul 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
      Apr 2014 - Jun 2018 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Held weekly lab sessions for the following Master of Science in Analytics classes http://www.analytics.northwestern.edu/index.html): -- MSiA 431 Big Data Analytics (Spring 2014-2018): Course covered variety of topics and tools in big data, with emphasis in Hadoop, unstructured data concepts (key-value) and MapReduce technology. Other tools included Spark, Pig, Hive and HBase. -- MSiA 423 Analytics Value Chain (Winter 2018): Course taught future data scientists the essentials for moving a machine learning based solution from POC to production as well as design of experiments. -- MSiA 490 Text Analytics (Fall 2018): This course taught computational techniques for analyzing unstructured text such as that found in emails, text messages, conversation transcripts, web pages etc. -- MSiA 411 Data Visualization (Spring 2014): Curriculum was focused on Tableau and R.

    • Graduate Research Assistant
      Sep 2013 - Jun 2018 · 4 yrs 10 mos

      -- Developing algorithms for large-scale online and offline machine learning settings. I have worked extensively with Hadoop MapReduce and Spark. -- A more recent project focused on analyzing millions of transactions from Venmo, the most popular P2P payment service, to predict individual customer behavior.

  • Data Science Intern at CME Group
    Jun 2014 - Sep 2014 · 4 mos

    Employed unsupervised learning techniques to detect anomalous trading patterns. The resulting algorithm was used to identify various kinds of market manipulation practices.

  • Teaching Assistant at Johns Hopkins University
    Aug 2011 - Dec 2011 · 5 mos

    Course: Introduction to Optimization Held weekly office hours and lab sessions.