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Apply your learning and compete in Agenthon 2026. We equip you with the knowledge, tools, and data.
Agenthon
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For industry professionals, graduate students, and academics.
Apply your skills against real quantitative-finance problems, in teams of one to three. If successful, present at the in-person final in Manhattan.
Who it's for
Agenthon 2026 is designed for individuals eager to enhance their skills in quantitative finance and to engage with the latest advances in technology and data analysis in the financial sector. Winners gain substantial industry visibility, including with the Question sponsors, SQA member investment firms and in NeurIPS.
You compete in teams of one to three people. Only people registered here can form teams, and only these teams can feature in the leader boards.
Apply your learning and compete in Agenthon 2026. We equip you with the knowledge, tools, and data.
Question Partners
Agenthon Questions and Tasks are of real relevance to hedge funds and asset managers, spanning alpha forecasting, portfolio optimization, computational statistics, machine learning, and AI. Questions are provided jointly by the SQA, CEWIT and our Question Partners.
See Questions 2025 for last year's questions and a feel for Agenthon priorities.
Our Supporters
A number of sponsorship tiers and opportunities are available, including monetary and awards sponsorship, event space, data, infrastructure, and compute.
Organizing Committee
Chief Investment Officer, Atlas Ridge Capital
Adjunct Professor, NYU Courant
Executive Advisory Board, Columbia Business School, Program for Financial Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University
Vice President, Society of Quantitative Analysts
Head of Machine Learning Strategy, CTO Office
Bloomberg, Toronto, Canada
Head of Quant Technology Strategy, Office of the CTO
Bloomberg, New York, USA
Global Head of Capital Markets Strategy
NVIDIA Corporation, USA
T1 · Coding
Zhikang Dong
Track Lead T1
Independent Researcher
T2 · Forecasting
Ruolan Sun
Track Lead T2
Ph.D. Student, Stony Brook University
T3 · Simulation
Haohan Xu
Track Lead T3
Ph.D. Student, Stony Brook University
T4 · Tabular
Mathew Thiel
Track Lead T4
Quant Research Analyst, validityBase