Our Mission

At NUFT, our goal is both to improve the quality of Fintech and Quant education at Northwestern, as well as to provide an excellent pre-professional space for students to engage and discuss. We seek to help students prepare for some of the most competitive roles in industry, as well as providing experiences and projects that would be impossible for an individual.

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What we do

NUFT operates through both a technical, project-based side and a pre-professional side. The project side is focused on building a simulation quant firm from scratch, while the pre-professional side includes networking events, interview preparation, and more.

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Our leadership

Meet the current exec board, project managers, and faculty advisor for Fall '23. If you have any questions or are interested in applying for this upcoming recruitment season, feel free to contact us!

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Project Teams

Our project teams are modeled off of the same work structure that drives the world's biggest tech companies, and members are free to select their teams and choose what they work on within the NUFT projects.

Infrastructure

Infra builds trading systems and infrastructure using Python, WebSockets, Multiprocessing, AWS, GUIs, and more!

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Algorithms

Algo develops and implements trading algorithms and deals mainly with C++/Python integration and translation.

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Machine Learning

ML utilizes Northwestern's Quest High Performance Computing System for sentiment analysis, algorithm generation, and automation.

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Research

Research combines economic data with extensive mathematical knowledge to conceptualize and propose the algorithms that drive NUFT.

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