Kanav Mehta Quantitative Researcher

Founding Quantitative AI Researcher at QuantLink AI. 3 years 8 months at Wolfe Research. Shipped signals to Wolfe's institutional clients and a production portfolio optimizer.

UCLA Anderson MFE · GPA 3.93

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5+: years in quant research and ML
2 + 7: Wolfe QES reports, led + contributed
1st: of 100+, WorldQuant BRAIN Alphathon
10+: college funds piloting QuantLink AI

Selected work

Wolfe Research · Equities

Factor, ML and NLP signals

Delivered to institutional clients. Built every QES network-momentum signal.

Risk factor: Intangibles: more return dispersion explained than growth
Sharpe 1.53: Loss-making stocks ML model
Sharpe > 1: NLP long-short signals

Sharpe ratios backtested.

Case study

QuantLink AI · Platform

AI research platform

Optimizer and attribution in production. Built the agent tools, notebooks, notebook agent, AutoML and a 1,139-operator catalog.

Production: Optimization + attribution
38: Agent tools: backtests, AutoML, risk
789: Permission-checked datasets

Case study

AI equity research workbench

QuantFlow

Research stocks with factor, backtest and NLP tools. Built on ByteDance's DeerFlow 2.0.

Notebooks + CLI: Agent-run notebooks, Muse CLI
5 MCP servers: 99 tools, incl. alpha_engine
11 agents: Bull vs bear, risk-manager veto

Case study

QuantLink AI · Machine learning

AutoML Workbench

Train, rank and explain models without code. Leakage-safe by design.

Purged: Walk-forward validation
Leak test: Planted leak caught
Staging: Verified end to end

Case study

View all projects Point-in-Time Market Data Platform SQL-Native Backtester

Live dashboards

Options dashboard

Pricing, Greeks & IV in your browser

Open dashboard

Factors dashboard

S&P 500 exposure to the AI theme

Open dashboard

Oil dashboard

Geopolitical oil-risk index

Open dashboard

Experience

Apr 2026–Present

Founding Quantitative AI Researcher

QuantLink AI

Shipped portfolio optimization and attribution to production. Built the point-in-time data, agent, notebook and AutoML platforms.

Platform case study

Jun–Sep 2025MFE internship

Quantitative Researcher

Quanta Ventures

LightGBM ETF allocation in Python and kdb+/q; paper-traded 3 months.

Feb–Jun 2025Part-time

BRAIN Research Consultant

WorldQuant

40+ intraday and medium-frequency alphas: US, China, Europe.

Dec 2020–Jul 20243 yrs 8 mos

Senior Quantitative Research Associate

Wolfe Research · QES

Factor, ML and NLP signals for institutional clients. Presented research to clients and PMs.

Wolfe case study

2017–2020India

Associate Consultant · Business Analyst

ZS Associates · Udaan

Healthcare analytics and revenue forecasting.

Engineering at QuantLink

517: pull requests merged
1,059: pull request reviews
6,050: GitHub contributions

GitHub, QuantLink's private repos, Mar–Nov 2026.

Contributions per month. *Nov to date.

About

Python · SQL · C++ · kdb+/q
Factor and risk models · Barra, Axioma
ML and LLM fine-tuning · Hugging Face, LoRA
Airflow · Kubernetes

I mentor junior researchers and interns.

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Master of Financial Engineering

Sep 2024–Dec 2025 · GPA 3.93

1st of 100+, WorldQuant BRAIN Alphathon (Oct 2024)
IAQF 2025 paper on MAG7 concentration

IIT Roorkee

B.Tech, Civil Engineering

2013–2017 · KVPY Scholar

Get in touch

Email me
kanavdbz@gmail.com LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/cxz07 GitHub
github.com/Kizo07