Emmett Askira

Emmett Askira is an accomplished analyst at The D. E. Shaw Group since February 2021, having initially joined the firm as a trading intern in 2019, focusing on convertible arbitrage strategies. Previous experience includes an internship at Google working on medical data deidentification within Google Cloud Healthcare, and a data science internship at Pfizer, where methodology for clustering electronic health record data was developed. Emmett's research background includes genetic engineering internships at NASA Ames Research Center, as well as research assistant roles at Brown University and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which involved cancer research and computational genetics. Emmett's educational background includes a Sc.B. and two A.B.s in Biology, Computer Science, and Gender & Sexuality Studies from Brown University.