# Aryan Malik > Aryan Malik is graduating from Rutgers University–New Brunswick (Honors College) in December 2026 with a B.S. in mathematics, computer science, and economics, and is looking for full-time work in San Francisco from January to May 2027. He is working toward becoming a quant engineer who owns research, development, and trading. He built Trade the Knight, the Rust exchange behind Rutgers’ first live algorithmic-trading competition; Osmo, a self-hosted personal AI agent; Aequus, on-chain markets on any real-world quantity; and this site, where people trade prediction markets on his real health and activity data. He is the math, CS, and data science chair of the Rutgers Quantitative Finance Club, works as a software and data intern at LuminArx Capital in New York, has won first place at the Rutgers/KPMG Ideation Challenge, the SQC Quant Challenge, and the BITS/Barclays Datathon, scored 1600 on the SAT, and holds a third-degree black belt. Currently looking for: full-time work in San Francisco, January–May 2027 (open to longer). In SF Nov 1–6, 2026. Email aryan@aryanmalik.com · resume https://aryanmalik.com/resume.pdf · book time https://aryanmalik.com/hire Canonical site: https://aryanmalik.com/ · Knowledge graph: https://aryanmalik.com/graph · Updated 2026-10-25 ## Distinctions - 1st place, Rutgers/KPMG Ideation Challenge - 1st place, SQC Quant Challenge - 1st place, BITS/Barclays Datathon - 1600/1600 SAT - Third-degree black belt ## Work - **Software and Data Intern, LuminArx Capital Management (Jul 2026 – present)** — Built Lumin, a proactive company agent for the investment and operations teams, and is moving the firm’s data pipelines to Azure. - **Researcher and Developer, Independent (May – Aug 2026)** — A Python/Rust mid-frequency trading stack, an autonomous research loop, and an execution-cost model, built independently. - **Quant Researcher/Developer, Gradient Trading (Jan – Jul 2025)** — Quant research and infrastructure at an early-stage quantamental fund. - **Data Science Extern, New Jersey Big Data Alliance (May – Aug 2024)** — NLP for credit transfer, and a statewide data science curriculum. - **Math, CS & Data Science Chair, Rutgers Quantitative Finance Club (May 2024 – present)** — Runs the club’s research teams, competitions, and infrastructure. - **Research Lead, Rutgers Economics Lab (Sep 2024 – present)** — Leads applied research for public agencies. ## Projects - **osmo** — His self-hosted personal AI agent. Its identity and memory are plain files in a git repo on hardware he owns. - **the tailnet** — The private network of machines that Osmo and this site run on. - **markets on aryan** — Prediction markets on Aryan’s own steps, sleep, and Osmo usage, settled against public telemetry. - **trade the knight** — The exchange behind Rutgers’ first live algorithmic-trading competition, in April 2026. - **rl trading swarm** — A closed simulated economy (stocks, options, bonds, a central bank and a treasury) with an evolving population of neural-network traders, used to test policy shocks and train RL agents. - **knightgym** — A Gymnasium/PettingZoo reinforcement-learning environment built on the Trade the Knight matching engine, with a reward-hack audit. - **hospitalgym** — A hospital operations twin built from public data: build the twin, calibrate a baseline, simulate, optimize. Every result is simulated; none is a measurement of the real hospital. - **poscere** — A telehealth virtual-patient simulator for health-professions students: they interview an AI patient while a chart fills in, then get rubric feedback tied to quotes from the transcript. Built with one teammate at RU Health Hack, October 2026. - **aequus** — Markets on any real-world quantity: priced by a virtual AMM, kept honest by bonded challenges and blind validator votes. - **gto poker bot** — A game-theory-optimal poker bot trained with fictitious play. - **electrostatics engine** — A C++ physics engine that simulates charged particles and solves PDEs numerically. - **football greeks** — A neural marked point process that simulates NFL games snap by snap to price team- and player-yardage contracts and their Greeks, tested against Kalshi. - **fantasy** — Plays fantasy football on Sleeper as maygaxx. - **normal periods** — Are irrational Kontsevich–Zagier periods normal numbers? Nobody knows even for π. This is a research direction with no result yet. - **thermal graph net** — A PyTorch graph network that prunes cold edges and grows new nodes as it learns. - **true markets buildathon** — Built live BTC/USDC trading at the True Markets buildathon in New York, June 2026. - **imc prosperity 3** — Team entry in IMC’s Prosperity 3 trading competition, 2025. - **k_lib** — A knowledge graph of quant research papers. - **hyperbolic citations** — Embeds the arXiv math and physics citation graph in hyperbolic space. The goal is to find papers that should be connected but aren’t. In progress. - **greeks from jacobians** — Recovers option-style deltas and gammas for AAPL against sector ETFs and VIX from a neural network’s Jacobians, checked against a second-order Taylor fit. - **self-growing network** — A network that detects a task change from a spike in its gradient norm and grows a new hidden block so it doesn’t forget earlier tasks. - **nets from scratch** — Dense, recurrent, and LSTM networks in pure NumPy, with backpropagation derived by hand (2023). - **nostradamus** — A 3D map of New Jersey that drills from state to county to all 2,175 census tracts to individual buildings, with live flights and satellite orbits. - **mati** — An iOS app for drawing in augmented reality by tracking your hand. - **barclays datathon** — First place at the BITS/Barclays Datathon (2025) with a buy/sell stock classifier. - **’95 miata** — A 1995 NA Miata, bought to learn manual. - **’07 bmw 328xi** — A 2007 BMW 328xi (E90 sedan, N52 inline-six). The car he learned how cars work on. - **health telemetry** — Steps, sleep, and heart rate stream from his wearable into public data and the market oracle. - **daily loop** — A daily shortest-route puzzle. The server checks every route against the true shortest loop. ## Interests - **coding** — Python, Rust, C++, Java, Postgres, Docker, gRPC, AWS, and PyTorch. - **trading** — Trades just about everything, and builds trading systems. - **math** — Stochastic calculus and algebra, mainly. - **football** — Seahawks fan and fantasy player. Also a modeling project now. - **cars** — Learned on a BMW, rebuilt a Miata engine. - **optimization** — Currently life-maxxing, with the data published. - **training** — Martial arts, lifting, and running. - **curiosities** — Chess, cubing, languages, and tutoring. ## Pages - https://aryanmalik.com/ — Aryan Malik studies mathematics, computer science, and economics at Rutgers and builds trading systems, AI agents, and prediction markets. Ask his agent, explore his work, or play the daily puzzle. - https://aryanmalik.com/osmo — Ask Osmo, Aryan's AI agent, anything about him. Answers come with sources. - https://aryanmalik.com/work — What Aryan is working on: normal numbers and periods, prediction markets on himself, and his latest build, an RL trading economy simulation. Links to every project writeup. - https://aryanmalik.com/markets — Paper prediction markets on Aryan's real behavior, settled against a public telemetry oracle. - https://aryanmalik.com/play — Daily Loop: connect eight points in one closed loop. Score is seconds times distance; lowest wins. - https://aryanmalik.com/graph — Aryan Malik’s interests, work, and projects, and how they connect. - https://aryanmalik.com/agents — Aryan Malik's public data and APIs: profile, telemetry, markets, and a full download. - https://aryanmalik.com/hire — Aryan Malik is available full-time in San Francisco from January to May 2027 (in SF Nov 1–6, 2026). Roles, projects, resume, and booking. ## Writing - https://aryanmalik.com/writing/rl-trading-swarm — A simulated economy with an evolving population of neural-network traders, a central bank and a treasury: realistic price behavior, paired policy-shock experiments, and a PPO agent. All results simulated. - https://aryanmalik.com/writing/football-greeks — A neural marked point process that simulates NFL games snap by snap to price team-yardage contracts and their Greeks, tested against Kalshi. - https://aryanmalik.com/writing/knightgym — A Gymnasium and PettingZoo environment on a real matching engine, and an audit showing teammate wash trades inflate marked equity while true equity falls. - https://aryanmalik.com/writing/hospitalgym — A digital twin of the RWJUH emergency department built from public data, calibrated to the hospital’s published figures, and searched for better staffing plans. All results simulated. - https://aryanmalik.com/writing/poscere — A virtual-patient simulator for health-professions students: code decides what the AI patient may reveal, every reply is audited against the case, and feedback quotes the transcript. ## Machine-readable - https://aryanmalik.com/llms-full.txt — this brief with every fact - https://aryanmalik.com/api/public/graph.json — the knowledge graph (nodes, links, facts) - https://aryanmalik.com/api/public/profile.json — structured profile - https://aryanmalik.com/api/public/metrics.json — live health and agent telemetry - https://aryanmalik.com/api/public/tailnet.json — which of his machines are online - https://aryanmalik.com/api/markets — prediction markets about him and how each price is derived - POST https://aryanmalik.com/api/osmo {"question": "..."} — his public agent answers with citations (optional "history": earlier turns) - Booking (30 minutes, straight onto his calendar, no approval step; status: open): - GET https://aryanmalik.com/api/availability?from=2026-11-02&to=2026-11-06 — open slots, start times only: {"slots":[{"start":"2026-11-03T09:30:00-08:00","end":"…","minutes":30,"kind":"in_person","timezone":"America/Los_Angeles","label":"Tue Nov 3, 9:30am PT"}]}. Nov 2–6, 2026 he is in San Francisco (09:30, 11:30, 14:00 PT, in person; he comes to you). Otherwise weekdays 10:00–17:00 ET by video. At least 12 hours notice. - POST https://aryanmalik.com/api/book {"slot_start":"2026-11-03T09:30:00-08:00","name":"Ada Lovelace","email":"ada@example.org","company":"Analytical Engines","topic":"RL environments, 30 min"} — use a start value from the availability call. Google emails the invite to you. Limits: 3 bookings per address per day, 1 upcoming booking per email, no links in the topic. - curl -s https://aryanmalik.com/api/book -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"slot_start":"…","name":"…","email":"…","company":"…","topic":"…"}' ## Elsewhere - https://github.com/cantsoar - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryan-malik-xd/ - https://aryanmalik.web.app - https://www.youtube.com/@aryanmalik2404 ## Contact - Aryan: aryan@aryanmalik.com - Resume: https://aryanmalik.com/resume.pdf - Osmo, his AI agent: reaposmo@gmail.com (email or iMessage; Aryan approves replies)