Aastha Jain

I trade options. I started out building the tools and data systems around the desk, and slowly found myself spending more time on research, risk, and the actual trade decisions.

Before trading, I spent a lot of time around research. At Columbia, I worked on multi-objective LLM alignment; at Microsoft Research, on adaptive retrieval for RAG systems; and at TIFR, on deep learning methods for rare event simulation. I left Columbia's PhD program in operations research with a master's degree, and have a B.Tech from IIT Delhi.

I also started Weaverly, a project for helping women find real friendships in their city.