B. Shiva Mayer

Hi everyone! I am a research scientist at RGM Advisors, LLC, and I'm attending the CSSS though our affiliation with the Business Network.

Bio

In (roughly) chronological order:

• Originally from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
• Undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• I used to be a competitive (ACM) computer programmer
• NSERC undergraduate researcher in ultrasound physics
• Former professional photographer
• Various management and start-up experiences (VP of the Alma Mater Society; Director of Content Development at Insidermedicine)
• Attempted to develop automated trading strategies of my own, before...
• Currently a researcher at RGM Advisors, LLC, a proprietary, high-frequency trading firm based in Austin, Texas.

Expertise

I've had the privilege of being able to look at a lot of market data through the lens of developing profitable trading strategies, so in a qualitative sense, I have a (by no means exhaustive) feel for some of the modeling techniques that are useful in my domain. More specifically, I also have experience developing proprietary analysis tools for market data in C++, Java, Python, and other languages. I also have some very limited experience with R, and I've used MatLab in previous lives.