Ben Toms

Weather/Commodities Quant

Denver Metropolitan Area

About

Quant in weather and commodities. Deep experience in weather, AI/ML, and probabilistic modeling.——- I have a decade of experience using ML/AI and more fundamental statistics (Fourier analysis, etc.) to predict and understand weather and climate. I traded PJM day-ahead using systematic strategies at Trafigura. Focused on UTC/congestion. I built an AI for weather company called Intersphere, which focused on long-range weather forecasts on subseasonal to seasonal timescales (2+ weeks). We were acquired in April 2024 by Climavision. I was an academic focused on AI for weather and climate before starting Intersphere. You can check out some of that work here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=awK41JYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Experience

  • Investment at ClearAlpha® Technologies

  • Founder at Intersphere

    Acquired by Climavision. Built AI forecast system for weather and climate forecasts from weeks to two years into the future (subseasonal to seasonal forecasts).

  • Quantitative Trader at Trafigura

    Algorithmic trading in PJM

  • Vice President, AI Weather Modeling at Climavision

    - Obtained role as part of the acquisition of my company, Intersphere - Oversaw the development of a high-resolution (100-m) forecasting pipeline and the continued development of the S2S prediction model developed at Intersphere