Jafar J.

Jafar J. is a highly skilled Quantitative Developer currently employed at Brevan Howard since June 2023. Prior to this role, Jafar served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago from February to May 2023, and as a Research Scientist at Meta from September 2022 to February 2023. Jafar's academic background includes significant experience at the University of Chicago, where engagement as a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant occurred from September 2016 to August 2022, alongside instruction of an undergraduate course on C programming. Additional internships as a Research Scientist Intern at Dataminr and a Summer Research Intern at TTIC focused on algorithm development and optimization. Jafar holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Chicago, an MS from Boğaziçi University, and a BS in Computer Engineering from Boğaziçi University.