Finding Signal in the Noise with In Young Cho

About this episode

In this episode, In Young Cho discusses her journey from aspiring doctor to leading machine learning efforts at Jane Street, exploring the intersections of trading, research, and software engineering.

In Young Cho thought she was going to be a doctor but fell into a trading internship at Jane Street. Now she helps lead the research group’s efforts in machine learning. In this episode, In Young and Ron touch on the porous boundaries between trading, research, and software engineering, which require different sensibilities but are often blended in a single person. They discuss the tension between flexible research tools and robust production systems; the challenges of ML in a low-data, high-noise environment subject to frequent regime changes; and the shift from simple linear models to deep neural networks.

People in this episode

Host: Ron

Guest: In Young Cho

Topics covered

• trading
• machine learning
• software engineering
• research
• data analysis

Keywords

• trading internship
• machine learning
• research group
• deep neural networks
• linear models

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jane Street

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