Hayden Calabretta

Student-Athlete at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Experience

  • Incoming 2026 Sales & Trading Summer Analyst at Deutsche Bank
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • Intern at Coastline Wealth Management
    Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 · 3 mos

    - Organized, built, and deployed a portfolio optimization program to allow the Capital Management team to seamlessly migrate new client accounts to Coastline’s model portfolios while keeping realized capital gains under a threshold amount - Designed various optimization methods to closely align proposed portfolio characteristics (e.g. duration, credit quality, equity sector allocation, etc.) with that of the model portfolio to ensure strategic consistency and risk adherence - Decreased time to transfer new account by a factor of 10

  • NeuroAI Intern at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 · 4 mos

    - Researched whether adding learnable delays into Spiking Neural Networks can enhance or improve a deep learning model - Designed Leaky Integrate and Fire neuron model and custom data-loading pipeline in Jax to develop Spiking Neural Network to solve N-MNIST and used this model as a building block towards the main model used in the project - Attended weekly meetings discussing architectural/implementation choices to discover solutions to limitations of our model

  • Undergraduate Researcher at MIT Hacking Medicine
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    - Analyzed the investment strategy of Boston-based/healthcare-focused VC firms to identify trends relative to different macroeconomic time periods and events (COVID-19 Pandemic, 2008 Financial Crisis, etc.) - Presented weekly findings and observations to Healthcare Innovation group and submitted final cumulative paper

  • Intern at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center
    Jun 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

    - Tested enzymes and plasmids for viability via restriction analyses and bacterial transformations - Prepared reagents and performed other laboratory prep work for experiments involving DNA manipulation, sequencing, and analysis - Supervised students Grades 6-12 and assisted with genetics instruction