Hi, my name is Humzah Merchant.

humzahm@uchicago.edu

I'm a senior at UChicago applying for PhDs. I'm interested in machine learning, asset pricing, and financial markets.

Highlights:

Won Best Poster Award at NeurIPS 2025 Generative AI in Finance Workshop

Won the research/data case within the UChicago Trading Competition - widely regarded as the top undergraduate trading competition

My advisor presenting some of my work at NBER Summer Institute Asset Pricing (36:45)