In 2016, Women at Two Sigma (W@TS), one of the company’s four employee resource groups, established our Circles program. The aim was to create a tight micro-community where women could discuss career progression, work-life balance, and other related topics that might not be as easy to discuss candidly in existing settings. “When I got to Two Sigma, Circles helped me feel totally comfortable that I was working at the right place—and I want others to feel that, too,” shared Melissa Isaacs, head of the End User Services engineering team. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eH2T6iqV
About us
Two Sigma is a financial sciences company that combines advanced technology and data science with rigorous human inquiry to solve the toughest challenges in finance. Two Sigma aims to generate alpha for its clients and deliver differentiated solutions in investment management, securities, private equity, real estate, venture capital, portfolio analytics, and insurance. Founded in 2001 by David Siegel and John Overdeck, Two Sigma employs over 2,000 curious minds, and is headquartered in New York with offices around the globe. For more information visit www.twosigma.com. Two Sigma is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. The information presented in this profile is offered for recruiting purposes only and should not be used for any other purpose. As such, Two Sigma’s use of LinkedIn is not an offer to, or solicitation of, any potential clients or investors for the provision by Two Sigma of investment management, advisory or any other related services. No information posted by Two Sigma should be construed as investment advice, or as an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or other instrument. All trademarks, logos, information and photos are ®/TM/© Two Sigma Investments, LP or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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http://www.twosigma.com/
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- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2001
- Specialties
- investment management, technology, software development, quantitative modeling, and data science
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Updates
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Congratulations to William Merrill of New York University and Yinlin Deng of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who have been named the 2024 winners of Two Sigma's PhD Fellowship. Two Sigma's PhD Fellowships are designed to support PhD students who are expanding frontiers in a #STEM field such as statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, and physics. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gB3z3gGe
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Women in Machine Learning recently featured Two Sigma's Claudia Perlich, Head of Strategic Data Science, Investment Management, for her contributions to Machine Learning. Claudia shared how her passion for biology inspired her later interest in #MachineLearning during her graduate studies. Learn more:
Claudia Perlich is an outstanding example of women in machine learning. While her passion for machine learning is evident, it was not her original interest. When asked how she first became interested in machine learning, Claudia shared "My interest in machine learning developed almost accidentally. Growing up I was really interested in biology and animals in particular. Not the small ones though - I was an avid lover of horses! My mom quickly cured me of my dream of becoming a vet by sending me to work in a cow stable for two weeks. Instead, my dad convinced me that there would be a future in CS and that I could decide later. So, in 1995 I picked a course on “artificial neural networks” during my CS grad school, just because it sounded cool and seemed to have a taste of biology in the name. Little did I know that the underlying technology would revolutionize AI a good 20 years later. But during that course I fell in love with working with data; it is incredible how much you can learn about people without having to talk to them. Regular CS can be very dry and somewhat abstract, but here was an opportunity to engage with the world and learn about all kinds of domains from medical applications like breast cancer and hospital readmissions to advertising and finance." Thank you Claudia for your positive representation of women in machine learning and your many contributions to the field.
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We recently participated in the second annual Women in Quant Finance event in Boston. The event featured a diverse panel of women, including Two Sigma's Cristina Popa, who shared more about their experience and advice on how to be successful. Attendees from local universities also learned about different types of career paths within the finance industry: https://lnkd.in/e_TYVS6i #quant #quantfinance
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In our most recent edition of the Fellowship Forum, Suproteem Sarkar shared his experience as a Two Sigma Fellow and PhD student at Harvard University. Two Sigma Fellowships recognize doctoral students who are expanding frontiers in a #STEM field such as statistics, Finance/Econometrics, applied mathematics, computer science, and physics. Read more: https://lnkd.in/egNQjYwq
Meet the Two Sigma Fellows: Suproteem Sarkar
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Supporting learning and professional growth for each of our employees is an important aspect of Two Sigma's culture. Each year, we offer five learning days to attend conferences or external trainings to learn from and exchange ideas with peers in the field. To further foster knowledge sharing, we have quarterly companywide sessions to highlight insights from these learning days. We recently shared some of the papers from #NeurIPS 2023 that caught our team’s attention. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gbNEf35d #LLMs
Two Sigma's Favorite Papers from NeurIPS 2023
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To celebrate International Women’s Day, Two Sigma's Women @ Two Sigma (W@TS) employee resource group hosted Lisa Sun, founder and CEO of GRAVITAS, for a special conversation in our Quad. Lisa shared how the word Gravitas helped shape her own career journey and develop her focus on the tools women can employ to feel more confident in themselves. Learn more about W@TS and our other employee resource groups: https://lnkd.in/g5C4tYkK
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This month, Two Sigma’s Rachael Weiss Riley joined Garry Harris, Center for Sustainable Communities, David Schneider, The Federal Transit Administration, and moderator Adrienne Schmoeker at #SXSW. Rachael discussed how her team, Sustainability Science, works to empower people and organizations to use data for impact, not only improving access to data and open data, but also ensuring they’re helping these organizations derive tangible, actionable insights to be able to use this data for decision making. Listen to the full talk here: https://lnkd.in/etJVNZrN
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We are headed to #NSBE50! We are excited to attend the 50th annual convention on March 20 as part of our continued support of this important non-profit, which serves as the largest student-governed organizations of Black engineering and tech students and professionals. Stop by Booth 2540 to meet our team during this four-day event! https://ow.ly/g7ZW50QWVy4
Two Sigma at NSBE 2024
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What is the power of storytelling with data? Ben Wellington, Deputy Head of Feature Forecasting, joined The Gradient podcast to discuss how to use data to tell stories and solve problems in financial markets and everyday life. Tune in to hear Ben discuss what it means to take a scientific approach to investing, how techniques like natural language processing can be applied to drive market predictions, and how Two Sigma’s quantitative research culture prioritizes long-term thinking: https://lnkd.in/ePT-KCn6 #naturallanguageprocessing
Ben Wellington: ML for Finance and Storytelling through Data
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