Ketandu Chiedu

Ketandu Chiedu is a Portfolio Strategist at The D. E. Shaw Group as of September 2023, previously serving as a Proprietary Trading Intern at the same company focused on emerging markets FX from June to August 2022. Prior experiences include a Data Science Internship at Facebook in summer 2021, a Latitude Fellowship at The D. E. Shaw Group in January 2021, and an Undergraduate Research Assistant position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics from June to September 2020, where work involved using Pytorch for lattice field theory calculations. Teaching experience includes serving as a Calculus Facilitator for the Interphase EDGE program at MIT. Earlier internships include roles at Argonne National Laboratory, Fermilab, and UChicago Medicine, where contributions ranged from building a scintillator detector for cosmic ray detection to conducting patient interviews for healthcare research. Ketandu holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earned from 2019 to 2023, and a high school diploma from Walter Payton College Prep obtained in 2019.