I am a Belarusian political refugee. Participated in civil demonstrations during political crisis in 2020, volunteered for Red Cross for a couple of times, took part in a university strike Committee. Forced to take a political migration to Poland.
Hold 2 Bachelors Degrees from top-1 universities in appropriate countries, 1 from Belarussian State University with GPA ~3.0 in Applied Math, second from Vilnius University, Lithuania, in Quantitative Economics, GPA 3.35.
Work Experience: 4 Years working for a private family fund, as a data scientist/quantitative researcher. Developed platform for automative news analysis with AI, transformed its signals into a profitable trading strategy and then executed this strategy. Currently working in a start-up on AI-driven platform for portfolio managers.
Additional activities: Remotely taught a course in financial machine learning in Center of Math. Finance, High School of Economics (Russia). Took additional courses in Accounting, Options Trading, Financial Math, Credit Instruments Trading.
GMAT Focus: 665 (equal to 720 original).
Post MBA Goal: 2-3 years asset management/trading desks (fx, derivatives)/analyst position in big investment bank -> transfer to buy-side hedge funds as asset manager.
I want to switch my specialization from quant finance into more traditional analytic role with possibility to pivot to a business in future.