Grant Stenger

Founder & CEO of Kinetic — a multi-chain dex aggregator supporting both fungible and non-fungible token trading. We raised $7.2m from Jump, Sequoia, SV Angel, Contrary, and others.

Experience

Polychain

Quant Research · San Francisco

  • Delta-neutral trading models for liquid crypto derivatives markets
  • DeFi protocol research — whitepapers, founder calls, code reviews

Jane Street

Quant Trading · New York City

  • Equities-focused quant research
  • Analysis of the price impact of large block trades reported on the TRF
  • 1st place winner of internal automated trading competition

Midjourney

AI Research · San Francisco

  • Tools for thought
  • Psychometric embedding research

QuantRes

Quant Research · Nassau, Bahamas

  • Advanced time series modeling
  • Equities ETF market making

Numerai

Machine Learning Engineer · San Francisco

  • High dimensional stats for meta-model improvements
  • ML pipeline for detecting malicious users
  • Fullstack work on Erasure's splash page (React + Node.js + GraphQL + Elixir)

Education

University of Southern California

B.S. Applied Mathematics, B.S. Computer Science · Los Angeles, CA

  • Full tuition merit scholarship
  • Started PhD level computer science and math courses as a sophomore

THINK Global School

High School · Hyderabad, Tanzania, Hiroshima

  • Attended the world's first traveling high school, living and studying in multiple countries

Head-Royce School

High School · Oakland, CA

  • Berkeley Math Circle, Student Council (8 years), East Bay Fencers Gym, AwesomeMath, AoPS

Projects & Awards

Stanford TreeHacks Winner: Attentional Super Resolution GAN

Best Computer Vision Prize · Feb. 2019

  • Best Computer Vision Prize & IBM's Favorite Health Hack
  • Enhancing low resolution video feeds in real time with a novel GAN architecture

Silicon Valley Design Thinking Institute

Co-Founder · Jun. 2019 – July 2020

  • Teaching design thinking and product development frameworks

Optimization Research

Prof. John Carlsson Ph.D. · Apr. 2019 – May 2020

  • Asymptotic analysis of the multi-robot routing problem
  • Upper bound on efficiency improvement combining robotic and truck delivery

Ph.D. Courses

Youngest USC student in PhD-level CS · Aug. 2018 – May 2021

  • Convex Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Stochastic Calculus and Mathematical Finance, Advanced Analysis of Algorithms

Stamps Scholarship

Stamps Foundation · Apr. 2017

  • USC's most competitive academic scholarship (5 awards per year)
  • Full-tuition scholarship plus $20,000 enrichment fund

I like Jupyter notebooks, primatology, poker theory, Coastal California, chess tactics, Speechify, and old books. Fluent in english and python.