USIT QMIMeet our current leadership, senior analysts, junior analysts, and senior advisors.
Executive Director
Avani is a junior studying finance & BHP from Austin, Texas. She enjoys cooking, wake surfing, yoga, and taking naps. This summer in NYC for her internship she ate through the whole city and tracked it all on @avaniate. Feel free to reach out!
Executive Director
Siddhartha is a junior studying Finance and Math from Houston, Texas. He enjoys playing golf, pickleball, football, and cooking. He plans on playing a lot of golf this school year and picking up cubing. Feel free to reach out to talk about trading or sports!
Senior Analyst
Karthik is a computer science major from Houston, Texas with experience in full‑stack, systems, and algorithmic development. He loves talking about new startups and is constantly finding new ways to learn. Outside of school, he enjoys the outdoors, playing ultimate frisbee, and ranking restaurants on Beli with friends.
Senior Analyst
Mayank is a junior math major interested in quant and risk management. He likes cooking, hiking, and playing RPG video games. Next year, he will be working at JPMorgan.
Senior Analyst
Xavier Leffler is an incoming sophomore born and raised in Austin, TX, and a Senior Analyst at QMI. He likes basketball, mountain biking and thrifting, and is majoring in Computer Science at UT.
Senior Analyst
Adrian is a sophomore studying Computer Science from Austin. He spends his time playing pickup basketball, winning money from fantasy football, and losing it all back at the poker table. This past summer, he interned at a private investment partnership working on public equity projects.
Senior Analyst
Shreyas is a sophomore at UT studying Finance. He likes exploring the world of finance while passively donating to the stock markets. He's interested in the tokenization of assets, and loves playing ping pong and reading the next chapter of One Piece in his free time.
Senior Analyst
Richard is a sophomore studying Computer Science and Math from Austin, Texas. In his free time, he enjoys playing the violin, tennis, poker, going on hikes, trap and skeet, and watching movies.
Senior Analyst
Kaden is a sophomore majoring in Informatics from Austin, TX. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with friends on the golf course, playing basketball, and poker.
Senior Analyst
Alicia is a sophomore from Mexico studying Economics and Mathematics. When she’s not doing street photography, you can find her reading Latam literature or falling off her skateboard. This summer, she interned at Culmen Capital Investment Bank. If you’re ever down to explore new coffee spots, yap anything track and field, or go for a jog, hit her up!
Junior Analyst
Darya is a sophomore studying finance from the Bay Area, California. This past summer, she interned at a distressed debt and special situation trading firm. In her free time she enjoys snowboarding, mixing drinks, and exploring new cities.
Junior Analyst
Ellen is a freshman BHP major from Houston, Texas. You can find her listening to R&B or pop, shopping for clothes she won’t actually buy, and playing for the UT Competitive Badminton Team.
Junior Analyst
Nitish is a freshman at UT Austin majoring in Statistics and Data Science through the Polymathic Scholars Honors Program in the College of Natural Sciences. Outside of academics, he enjoys weightlifting, playing volleyball, and exploring the city.
Junior Analyst
Abraham is an immigrant from Venezuela with a strong passion for finance, technology, and global cultures. Beyond his academic pursuits in finance, he is deeply interested in languages and the ways they connect people across borders. His greatest inspiration is his father, a dedicated language professor and a true emblem of resilience.
Junior Analyst
Jesse is a sophomore studying math from New Jersey and is interested in finance and investing. This fall he is interning at Legacy Trust Company and working with their alternatives portfolio. He enjoys rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles, going on runs around Austin, and watching superhero movies.
Junior Analyst
Susan is a freshman ECB Honors student from Portland, Oregon and Kingsland, Texas interested in exploring the intersection between technology and finance. When she's not devoting all her time to a random arts and crafts endeavor, especially Gundam Model Kits, she reads horror novels, explores local cafes, and burns time playing random indie games.
Junior Analyst
Kavish is a computer science and math double major from Dallas, Texas. With a background in software engineering, he has hands-on experience with backend development and cloud computing technologies. In his free time, he enjoys running Austin’s trails, analyzing Formula 1 stats, and perfecting his meal prep for his strength training goals.
Junior Analyst
Owen is a freshman studying BHP and Finance at UT. Outside of school he likes football and learning new things. Feel free to reach out!
Junior Analyst
Alex is a freshman math major from Austin, TX. He is interested in quant finance and healthcare. In his free time he enjoys training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA, he also is starting to learn how to free dive. Feel free to reach out!
Junior Analyst
Mikail is a freshman at UT Austin from Plano, Texas studying Statistics and Data Science. In his free time, he enjoys playing soccer, going out with friends, and playing the French Horn.
Junior Analyst
Baran Vural is a freshman Mathematics major born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. In his free time, he enjoys watching college football, reading random Wikipedia articles, playing Counter-Strike, and lifting.
Senior Advisor
Nate is a senior studying finance from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He enjoys slalom waterskiing, playing the guitar, and cheering on the Green Bay Packers. He will be joining Goldman Sachs as a rates trader following his graduation. Feel free to reach out!
Senior Advisor
Asmit is a senior at UT Austin studying Statistics and Data Science with a focus in Math and Computer Science. He is interested in Conformal Prediction and Bayesian Statistics. If you're interested in statistics, he would love to connect and talk more!