Evan Chandran

QR @ Radix | Princeton Physics ’25

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States

About

Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]!

Experience

  • Quantitative Researcher at Radix Trading LLC
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Gap Year: Backpacking & Farm Volunteering Abroad, Upcoming NOLS Outdoor Educator Training at NOLS Wilderness Medicine
    Sep 2023 - Jun 2024 · 10 mos

    Backpacked and hiked abroad; volunteered through Habitat for Humanity in NH and abroad through World Wide Organization of Organic Farms. Explored sustainable agriculture and carbon-neutrality considerations in adventure tourism industry through Pacific Discovery semester in Costa Rica. Pursuing Outdoor Educator and Expedition Leader course July 16 - August 14 2024 including 80 hours of Wilderness First Responder emergency medicine and a 21-day backpacking route.

  • Quantitative Trading Intern at Jane Street
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

    Crafted model in Python to predict fair values in select financial instruments following block trades; researched select derivative premia movements around underlying dividend dates and backtested strategies. Developed and executed mock trading strategies throughout 150 hours of live simulations; studied market microstructure, asset classes and derivatives, and risk management techniques.

  • Princeton University (1 yr 4 mos)
    • Peer Academic Advisor, Forbes College
      May 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Mentored and supported cohort of first-year students through summer academic onboarding, orientation events, and frequent advising sessions throughout academic year.

    • Junior Research, Lai Geophysics Group
      Jan 2023 - May 2023 · 5 mos

      Generated synthetic datasets to explore 2-D Antarctic ice shelf flow governed by depth-integrated Stokes equations; validated ability of Python-implemented Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) to infer ice viscosity & stress-strain power law exponents.

  • Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics Intern at University of Oxford, Department of Physics
    Jun 2022 - Aug 2022 · 3 mos

    Investigated topology of particle-hole excitation in 2D tight-binding models. Surveyed condensed matter physics; derived background analytics; developed Python script for Hamiltonian diagonalization and parameter grid search. Continued into Junior Research Paper for Princeton's Physics Department.