Joel Runevic

Quant Strat @ Radix Trading | Harvard CS + Math Alum

Chicago, Illinois, United States

About

Quantitative Strategist at Radix Trading LLC. Harvard BS in Math and CS, plus an MS in Statistics completed concurrently through PhD-level coursework. Published at ICML (Spotlight) main conference and ICLR main conference; active reviewer for ICLR workshops. Interested in mathematics, machine learning, and operating systems.

Experience

  • Quantitative Strategist at Radix Trading LLC
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

  • Research Assistant at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    Jan 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

    ML research focused on vision-language models and RL. Recent work on model transferability in Multiple Instance Learning was accepted at ICML 2025 with Spotlight recognition (top 3%). Other work includes creating RL environments in collaboration with Google DeepMind.

  • Software Dev Engineer Intern at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    Wrote C++ code for AWS Redshift, focusing on optimizing sort tables for improved query performance.

  • Software Dev Engineer Intern at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

    Wrote Java code for AWS Aurora Storage, developing a cluster monitoring tool to track performance metrics and system health in real time.

  • Software Engineer Intern at Speechmatics®
    Jun 2022 - Aug 2022 · 3 mos

    Wrote code for a speech-to-text engine, focusing on monitoring performance and system reliability.