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David Sargent Wood is the Chief Quantitative Strategist at Brooklyn Investment Group (BKLN). He manages the portfolio management team and oversees day-to-day systematic investment management processes. At Brooklyn, he is responsible for the conception, implementation,… more

Postions

Chief Quant Strategist, Brooklyn Investment Group (2022–)
Head of Quant Strategies, Hum Capital (2020–22)
Quant Researcher, Credit Suisse (2018–20)

Education

Ph.D. in Financial Econometrics, The University of Chicago
M.B.A. in Finance, The University of Chicago
A.B. in Economics, The University of Chicago

Contact

dwood AT uchicago.edu
@d-

Research

MTS for R—All-Purpose Toolkit for Multivariate Time Series (with Ruey Tsay and contributions from Jon Lachmann and Renze Dijkhuizen, 2022)
Essays on Implied Spherical Space Forms in Statistics and Econometrics (2018)

Blog

Zoo keeping: dynamic assembling based on subclass attributes
Go getters: a monadic way
Take a walk on the functional side: yes, we need monads
Working with distributed workers
Cooperative concurrency with FastAPI: it's the generators, stupid
Wrapping around wrappers: a primer on Python decorators
Simple SSL-based encryption