Siddhant Shah

Hi, I'm Siddhant

I'm a final year student, pursuing a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI). My interests lie in Machine Learning, Data Science and Finance.

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My Favourite MacOS Utilities

20/03/2024

A collection of apps that help me get the most usability out of my MacBook.

Intro to Finance & Options (STEMS 2024)

22/02/2024

These are my notes for an introductory, informal session on Options that I took as a part of the STEMS 2024 Camp, organised by the students of Chennai Mathematical Institute, as a part of Tessellate 2024. It provides an introduction to fundamental ideas of Financial Mathematics, proceeding to using them to explain the structure of options.

Stochastic Variational Inference (SVI) with Pyro

24/09/2023

This is an in-depth explanation of the tutorial available at the Pyro Library Website, who have adapted it from Chapter 7 of the excellent book Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath. It refers to the work of the paper Ruggedness: The blessing of bad geography in Africa. The goal of this exercise is to explore the relationship between topographic heterogeneity of a nation as measured by the Terrain Ruggedness Index and its GDP per capita.

Recent Courses & Workshops

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Finance & Quantitative Modeling for Analysts Specialization

Completed on Sunday, 1 January 2023

Offered by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) via Coursera

Decentralised Finance (DeFi) Primitives

Completed on Monday, 10 July 2023

Offered by Duke University via Coursera

Principles of Corporate Finance

Completed on Monday, 15 August 2022

Offered by MIT OCW

CS50: Introduction to Computer Science

Completed on Thursday, 16 September 2021

Offered by Harvard via EdX