Ashwin Chidambaram is a quantitative researcher at Balyasny Asset Management L.P. since 2024, with previous experience as a trader at Citadel Securities from 2021 to 2023. Ashwin's work in finance began as a senior quantitative analyst for the Investments Committee at the Georgia Tech Student Foundation, where quantitative investment strategies were developed from 2018 to 2021. Internships include roles at Citadel Securities, GMO as a quantitative research analyst focused on global equities, Pison for machine learning applications in EMG signal processing, Fidelity Investments for global asset allocation portfolio optimization, and Harvard Medical School conducting computational biology research. Ashwin holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and has an educational background from the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science.