Trevor Semeraro

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Financial EngineeringMachine LearningMathematicsProbability and Statistics
Education

Columbia University

Expected Dec. 2026

Operations Research Financial Engineering - GPA: 4.0

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Recent Projects

HFT Price Predictor

Financial Engineering

June 2024 - Present

Price Prediction model utilizing LightGBM regressor based on top of orderbook feeds.

Features

  • 0.52 R^2 (Strong Enough) on test dataset.
  • Engineered common High Frequency Trading Labels such as Top of Orderbook Imbalance, midprice, and spread.
  • Feature engineering via lag, and rolling methods.
  • Generates all dataset labels in near real-time utilizing Dynamic Programming to cache frequent access results.
  • Parses real world data provided by LOBSTER Data to replicate real world order intensities.
neural network

Options Leg Simulator

Financial Engineering

Dec. 2023 - Jan. 2024

Stock Options Simulator

Features

  • Simulates the profit and loss of a given options leg strategy.
  • Utilizes the Black-Scholes model to calculate the price of options.
  • Supports multiple options legs, and multiple strategies.

Orderbook Simulator

Financial EngineeringMachine Learning

May - June 2024

Implemented the Queue-reactive model in python to simulate a real orderbook to predict probability of execution for high frequency trading (hft) algorithms.

Features

  • Capable of processing 100,000 orders a second using a fast Limit Orderbook Implementation utilizing AVL Trees
  • Parses real world data provided by LOBSTER Data to replicate real world order intensities.
  • Vectorized all data computations to run in near-instant time utilizing Dynamic Programming to cache frequent access results
neural network

Neural Network

Machine Learning

Dec. 2023 - Jan. 2024

A neural network coded in c++, utilizing no machine learning libraries.

Features

  • 95% out of sample accuracy on MNIST dataset using a 3 layer neural network
  • 784 input nodes, 128w hidden nodes, 10 output nodes
  • Implemented RELU activation function for hidden layer, Softmax for output layer
  • Cross Entropy Loss Function
  • Trained on MNIST dataset

Synthetic Covered Call

Financial Engineering

Dec. 2023 - Jan. 2024

I replicated the trading strategy behind Yieldmaxes TSLY ETF, building synthetic covered call portfolio and simulating it with real data using the Tradier API.

Projectile Simulation

Mathematics

Mar. 2023

I used numerical analysis to solve for projectile launcher angles

Pathfinding (A* Star Algorithm)

Mathematics

Jan. 2022

I implemented the A* pathfinding algorithm on an interactive course