Rajya VardhanGoel
Physicist in quantitative research
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I like to figure stuff out using math and statistics
Physics and astrophysics, UMass Amherst, 2026.
Selected work
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Critical synchronization in coupled population cycles
GPU Monte Carlo and finite-size scaling: a critical point matched to within 0.04%.
Systematic equity alpha research
Cross-sectional signals, and a harness that runs thousands of backtests a day.
Estimating the Delhi Metro in 3D
Track heights for 272 stations from five surveyed points, with a range on each.
A quantitative model of geopolitical risk
A multiplicative model of which countries a crisis actually affects.
LLM extraction for a 50,000-entry bibliography
A printed bibliography turned into a searchable database, checked by AI agents.
Background
- WorldQuant BRAINResearch consultant since July 2026, at Gold level.
- UMass AmherstB.Sc. in Physics and Astrophysics, 2026, on a Chancellor’s Award scholarship.
- Baruch CollegePre-MFE seminars in numerical linear algebra and probability, and C++ for financial engineering with QuantNet.
- Akuna CapitalOptions 101: pricing, volatility and hedging.