ALEX
YESILYURT

AI Engineering Intern

Octave

Build ML systems for engineering simulations and production workflows.

Researcher

U-Michigan, Dept. of Statistics

Researched personalized LLM alignment methods for modeling user preferences at scale.

Trading Support Intern

Cantor Fitzgerald

Monitoring and anomaly detection tooling for live trading infrastructure.

Quantitative Research Intern

Wren Asset Management

Built research infrastructure and tested systematic strategies for an actively managed portfolio.

Software Engineer Intern

Infio

Software tooling for financial data in amortization tables.

IT Support Engineer Intern

Najmee

Supported clients, built documentation, and automated IT processes.

IMC Prosperity 4

26th in the U.S. and 83rd globally out of 18,803 teams in IMC's algorithmic trading competition.

MIG Quant Trading Competition

1st of 34 teams across live trading, market making, and execution games.

Optiver FutureFocus Trading Bot

Built an algorithmic trading program as part of Optiver's FutureFocus program.

Optiver FutureFocus

Quantitative trading program on markets, strategy, and trading simulations.

Jane Street Capital FOCUS

Program for students exploring quantitative finance and technical problem-solving.

Goldman Sachs Virtual Insight Series

Virtual insight program covering finance, markets, and professional development.

D. E. Shaw Connect

Program introducing students to finance, technology, and investing.

Walleye Sophomore Summer Summit

Sophomore program focused on trading, markets, and firm exposure.

Susquehanna Discovery Day

Discovery program introducing trading, strategy, and market-making.

Citi Freshman Discovery Program

Early-career program exploring finance, markets, and professional pathways.

SEO Tech Developer Program

Technical program supporting software engineering development.

ColorStack

Community for computer science students and technologists.

HFT Order Book

High-performance order book for market data and matching engine experimentation.

Black-Scholes Model

Options pricing tooling built for MFAMS markets education.

This Site

A personal site shaped like a Tetris well. Hand-built, no framework, no dependencies.

President

Michigan Finance and Mathematics Society

Lead a student organization focused on quantitative finance, markets education, and technical finance projects.

alexyes@umich.edu

Best way to reach me.

linkedin.com/in/alexyesilyurt

Work history and background.

github.com/alexyesilyurt

Code, writeups, and this site.