Alqama's Profound AI Rep
Alqama's path moves from data analytics and ML internships into full-cycle quantitative strategy research.

Alqama Ansari
Experience
Conduct quantitative research focused on systematic trading strategies, execution modelling, and market microstructure analysis across global markets. Design, backtest, and evaluate alpha signals using statistical modelling, time-series analysis, and reinforcement learning approaches. Develop research pipelines and trading simulations in Python & C++, emphasizing robust data handling, realistic execution assumptions, and performance analysis. Collaborate with trading systems team to prepare research strategies for deployment, including validation, parameter robustness, and infrastructure alignment. Work within a research driven environment focusing on disciplined experimentation, risk-aware modelling, and scalable quantitative workflows.

Engineered a high-performance, real-time brand logo identification system using a YOLOv8 object detection pipeline, achieving 95% accuracy and providing critical data for market analysis. Key Contributions: š¹ Developed and launched an interactive Streamlit dashboard equipped with confidence-scoring algorithms. This tool enabled stakeholders to perform advertisement exposure analytics and directly measure campaign ROI. š¹ Devised and implemented a scalable framework to calculate logo display percentages across more than 50 distinct marketing campaigns, establishing a foundational system for benchmarking campaign performance.
Spearheaded the development of a customer segmentation model using k-means clustering and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). This model directly improved the targeting of marketing campaigns by 25%, leading to more effective outreach. Key Contributions: š¹ Executed a comprehensive data preprocessing pipeline that enhanced model stability by reducing input noise by 15%. š¹ Led sprint-based analytics delivery within a 5-member quantitative team, consistently maintaining 100% adherence to rigorous data quality standards and ensuring the reliability of our insights.