Spencer Gosden

Spencer Gosden

M.S. in Quantitative and Computation Finance candidate. Highly interest in financial modeling, research, and trading. Experience in software development, academic research, and quantitative research.

Selected Projects

A few things I've built — from data pipelines to quant research to ML prototypes.

Maritime Alpha Flow
Maritime Alpha Flow
End-to-end data pipeline tying maritime trade signals to financial instrument valuations. Automated batch collection feeds a PostgreSQL database on an AWS VM, with a dashboard for exploring the link between shipping data and market behavior.
ETL
AWS
Streamlit
PostgreSQL
Prefect
CBOE VIX Research & Trading Strategy
CBOE VIX Research & Trading Strategy
Analysis showing the VIX reflects current volatility and risk premium more than 30-day forward forecasts. The spread between observed and predicted volatility helped surface high-range days, motivating a long-straddle strategy I detail in the paper.
Options
Volatility
Quant Strategy
Risk Management
StrAIn
StrAIn
Web app that uses pose estimation and gradient-boosted trees to estimate joint forces from workout videos — giving visual and textual feedback on potential injury risk and load management.
Python
Computer Vision
XGBoost
Crypto Daily Move Predictor
Crypto Daily Move Predictor
A compact autotrader that uses ML to predict single-day cryptocurrency price moves and rebalances a portfolio accordingly.
Autoencoders
Crypto
Portfolio Optimization

Publications

Words That Unite The World: A Unified Framework for Deciphering Central Bank Communications Globally
Additional Contributor
  • Created annotation guides for central bank documents covering stance (hawkish/dovish/neutral), temporal classification, and uncertainty estimation.
  • Annotated 1000 sentences across multiple central banks.
  • Resolved annotation disagreements with other annotators.

My Resume

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Certificates & Specializations

Coursework and credentials I've completed.

Technical & Language Skills

Tools, technologies, and languages I work with day-to-day.

Python
SQL
R
Tableau
SAS
SAP
Excel
Mandarin (beginner)
French (beginner)

Personal Interests

Outside of work, you'll find me exploring these.

Digital Art
DJ-ing
F1
Food

Get In Touch

Interested in connecting or collaborating? I'd love to hear from you.