Yafim Landa

Now

I'm currently working as an Associate on the Natural Gas Trading desk in the J. Aron commodities group at Goldman Sachs New York. Our desk trades financial futures and options on NYMEX natural gas. My role is to generate trading edge for ourselves and our clients through better analytics, predictions, and strategies in the natural gas market.

July '15 — July '13

Before that, I was an Analyst in the Digital Structuring Strats group, which was responsible for developing Marquee. Marquee is Goldman's electronic platform that offers financial services to clients over the web.

I also wrote a natural-language chat robot called Botnation with a colleague. The robot ingested a corpus of client price inquiries and learned how to understand new inquiries — even with missing information and structure, misspelled words, etc. — and then printed a price in the chat. My colleague and I created this robot as a side project, but it quickly grew in popularity and is currently being used for different purposes across multiple asset classes.

Graduate, '13

Before that, I was a graduate student at the Robotics, Vision, and Sensor Networks group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, working on the Fifth Sense Project under the direction of Professor Seth Teller. This work resulted in my Master's thesis, Prioritized Text Spotting Using Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. We also wrote a paper which was accepted to CBDAR '13.

I was a TA for 6.006: Introduction to Algorithms during the Fall, 2011 semester and for 6.005: Elements of Software Construction during the Spring, 2012 semester.

Undergrad, '11

I completed my undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. While I was a student, I interned as an engineer on the Feed Team at Facebook, the Video Tools team at Yahoo!, and the Advanced Technologies team at Endeca (now Oracle). I also interned at Wells Fargo Securities as a Trading Summer Analyst on the Commodities and Equity-Linked Products desks.

http://yaf.im

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landa@alum.mit.edu

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