University of California, Berkeley - Master of Financial Engineering

2026  Waitlisted University of California, Berkeley

Master of Financial Engineering
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Credits
Full-time
Submission Date
1/10/25
Interview Date
3/17/25
Result Date
3/22/25
UGPA
GRE Q
GRE V
159
Nationality
India 🇮🇳

University of California, Berkeley

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Master of Financial EngineeringYou vs The Rest
The chart has 1 X axis displaying Undergraduate GPA. Data ranges from 2.992 to 4.
The chart has 1 Y axis displaying GRE Q. Data ranges from 161 to 170.
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Nationality and Acceptance Rate Distribution

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Domestic: 0.18 International:0.82 US:0.18 CN:0.27 IN:0.36

Description

10 Jan 2025: applied.
22 Mar 2025: waitlisted. Asked to complete preparatory courses.

Education:
4th year CS undergrad at UofT, minor in statistics.

Research:
(AI+chemistry) submitted to Nature Machine Intelligence [first author]
(audio gen, diffusion) accepted to ICML 2024 workshop [second author]
(vision, diffusion) accepted to Annual Small Satellite Conference [shared author]
(AI+chemistry) in progress, to be submitted to JCIM [first author]
(AI+finance) in progress, practical paper to be written [first author]
Worked as research assistant at finance lab, contributed to various projects involving trading algorithms, stock prediction, news sentiment analysis, options pricing, RL powered trading, etc.
Presented my work at 5-6 conference, won best research poster award.

Awards:
Data Science Institute SUDS Scholar, University of Toronto = CAD 7,200
Dr. James A. & Connie P. Dickson Scholarship, University College = CAD 500
Arts and Science Faculty Award, University of Toronto = CAD 7,500
University of Toronto International Scholar Award = CAD 92,500
Best Research Poster Award, DSI SUDS Showcase 2024
Dean’s List Scholar, University of Toronto 2024, 2023

Extracurricular:
Project lead at university aerospace team, worked on vision (denoising, destriping, etc) projects.
Founded a computer vision club at university, conducted lot of paper reading and breakdown sessions.
Paper reviewer at alphaXiv, second-highest upvoted reviewer on the platform as of November 2024.
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    3/22/25

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    1/10/25
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