Julian Bridi

Statistics and mathematics student at TU Wien, incoming visiting undergraduate at Harvard. Based in Vienna, Austria.

Education

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA
Incoming Visiting Undergraduate StudentJan. 2027 – May 2027

Vienna University of Technology

Vienna, AT
BSc. Statistics and Mathematics in Economics (GPA: 1.18, 1 best to 5 worst)Mar. 2024 – exp. 2027
  • Coursework: Analysis, Linear Algebra, Measure and Probability Theory, Statistics, Numerics

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Vienna, AT
BSc. Business and Economics, discontinued after one year to switch to mathematicsOct. 2023 – Jun. 2024

Sir Karl Popper Schule

Vienna, AT
Matura, High School Diploma (GPA: 1.14, 1 best to 5 worst)Sep. 2019 – Jun. 2023
  • Program for highly gifted students with specializations in STEM
  • Exchange year 2021/22 at Lycée Notre-Dame de la Paix, Lille, France; prototyped a fashion label

Work Experience

Stealth Startup

New York, NY / Vienna, AT
Intern, Banking Tech; offered first non-founder hireJul. 2026 – Aug. 2026
  • Benchmarked vision-language models against classical OCR on 22 critical credit-risk fields
  • Built a synthetic scanned bank-document pipeline to evaluate per-field extraction recall

Deutsche Bank

Frankfurt, DE
Intern, FX StructuringJul. 2025 – Sep. 2025
  • Structured and priced FX derivatives using a bank-internal pricing framework and API
  • Conducted option analysis; built Python and Excel tools to automate market activity summaries

Jane Street, D.E. Shaw, and Deutsche Bank

Zurich, CH / London, UK / Frankfurt, DE
Participant, Portal Program and Spring Insight ProgramsSep. 2025 / Apr. 2025 / Mar. 2024
  • Placed 4th in Jane Street's “Estimathon” estimation game
  • Placed 1st of 100+ in Deutsche Bank's bond pricing case competition using linear regression

Quantitative Projects

Mid-frequency Crypto Statistical Arbitrage

Vienna, AT
Independent TraderMar. 2026 – May 2026
  • Achieved 11.9% return in three months using delta-neutral strategies on ~$100k of my own capital
  • Built reliable low-slippage execution algorithm and 24/7 alerting system

WUTIS Academic Trading and Investment Society

Vienna, AT
Division Head, Algorithmic Trading (from Oct. 2025); previously AnalystOct. 2023 – Sep. 2026
  • Led recruiting and ran workshops on algorithmic trading fundamentals
  • Conducted case studies on Monte Carlo simulations, interest rate analysis, and the Shiller CAPE ratio
  • The society's first ever first-semester admit; Austria's largest student-run trading society

Competitions & Awards

IMC Prosperity 3 Trading Competition

Virtual
2nd in Austria, peak rank 80th globally, Top 3% (manual), Top 5% (overall) of 12,000+ teamsApr. 2025
  • Implemented volatility smile, dynamic hedging, statistical arbitrage, and market-making strategies

Bolyai International Mathematics Competition

Vienna, AT
6th place in Austria out of 3,000+ participantsJan. 2023

Skills & Additional Information

Languages
German (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), Arabic (strong comprehension, basic speaking)
Programming
Proficient: Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn), Git, LaTeX. Familiar: R, C, C++, SQL
Interests
Running (Vienna City Marathon 2024), fitness