Physics MSci · Imperial College London · Quantitative Research

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Zain Mughal
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Probably the most un-physicist physics student you'll ever meet. I don't sit around deriving Lagrangians for fun. I build things. Trading bots that actually make money, AI tools that reconstruct faces from witness descriptions, pricing engines that run in your browser. If there's math behind it, I've probably tried to code it.

The thread that connects everything I do is taking stupidly complex problems like stochastic calculus, neural network optimisation, and financial derivatives, then turning them into something that actually works and ships. I've deployed models that trade live markets, built hackathon projects that won prizes, and I'm currently finishing my MSci at Imperial while targeting publications in ML and computational finance.

I'm not neatly one thing. Quant researcher, full-stack developer, ML engineer, physics student. I'm all of them, and none of them fully describe what I do. Currently obsessed with: rough path theory in neural networks, LLM hallucination benchmarks for finance, and making Rust do things it probably shouldn't.

Education

Imperial College London

Physics MSci2022 - 2026

Predicted 1:1 (First Class Honours)

  • Comprehensive study of Differential Equations, Probability Analysis, Monte Carlo methods
  • BPES modules: Accounting & Finance, Business Economics
  • Investment Society (Securities Education based on CFA)
  • Finance Society (Investment Banking Training)
  • AlgoTrading Society

Bishopshalt School

A Levels2020 - 2022

A*A*A* in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science

Rosedale College

GCSEs2015 - 2020

13 GCSEs with grades 9 to 8 including Maths and English, and 2 Distinctions

  • Achieved 13 GCSEs with grades 9 to 8 including Maths and English, and 2 Distinctions
  • Valedictorian, recognised for academic excellence and leadership qualities
London, United Kingdom
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Major Projects
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Featured Projects

From particle physics simulations to quantitative finance models, explore my diverse portfolio of technical projects

Featured
ML & AISoftware

WITNESS - AI Eyewitness Reconstruction

AI-powered forensic tool transforming witness descriptions into photorealistic suspect images, mugshots, video, and 3D models

Next.js 14TypeScriptClaude Sonnet 4FLUX.2Three.jsElevenLabs+3 more
2026● Completed
Featured
SoftwareQuant

DegenDuel - PvP Prediction Duels on Flare

On-chain PvP price prediction duels with trustless settlement via Flare's enshrined oracle protocols

SolidityNext.js 14TypeScriptScaffold-ETH 2HardhatFlare FTSO v2+3 more
2026● Completed
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QuantSoftwareMath/Stats

SDE Pricing Dashboard

Interactive derivatives pricing engine with 15+ SDE models, built in Rust/WASM with a Bloomberg-inspired UI

RustWebAssemblyNext.js 15TypeScriptTailwind CSSRecharts+2 more
2026● Completed
Featured
QuantML & AISoftware

FinLLM-HALO-500

Open-source SEC finance Q&A benchmark for evaluating and mitigating LLM hallucinations

PythonPyTorchJAXCUDAOpenAI APIGoogle Gemini+6 more
2025● In Progress
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QuantML & AISoftware

PolyLens - Social Alpha Trading System

First production-ready algorithmic trading system harnessing social media virality for financial alpha

Python 3.11FastAPIPostgreSQLTimescaleDB+7 more
2025● In Progress
06
ML & AISoftwarePhysics

DinoGo - Autonomous ML Dinosaur Runner

Low-power 8-bit microcontroller running real-time ML for autonomous gameplay

PIC18 AssemblyC8-bit MCUGLCD+3 more
2024● Completed
07
QuantML & AISoftwareMath/Stats

Enhanced Black-Scholes with Adaptive Volatility

Advanced options pricing integrating stochastic volatility and ML predictions

PythonQuantLibTensorFlowLSTM+3 more
2024● In Progress
08
PhysicsMath/Stats

Neutrino Oscillation Parameter Extraction

Extracted neutrino parameters θ23 and Δm²23 using advanced optimization algorithms

PythonC++NumPySciPy+2 more
2024● Completed
09
ML & AISoftwareQuantMath/Stats

MarketSeer - AI Financial Forecasting

Real-time market predictions combining traditional data with sentiment analysis

PythonFlaskReactTensorFlow+2 more
2024● In Progress
10
Software

This Website - Portfolio

Modern portfolio featuring 168 floating physics equations, 5 hidden easter eggs, and a black hole

Next.js 14TypeScriptReactFramer Motion+5 more
2025● Completed
11
Quant

Market Data Feed Anomaly Detection

ML-powered detection of staleness and false jumps in fixed-income data feeds

PythonLSTMARIMAReinforcement Learning+1 more
2024● Completed
12
PhysicsMath/Stats

Higgs Boson Statistical Analysis

Simulated discovery of Higgs boson using advanced statistical methods and Python

PythonNumPySciPyMatplotlib+1 more
2024● Completed
13
QuantSoftwareMath/Stats

High-Performance Portfolio Risk System

C++ risk management system calculating VaR/CVaR with ML predictions

C++QuantLibTensorFlow C++Boost.Asio+2 more
2024● In Progress
14
PhysicsMath/StatsSoftware

Thermodynamics Gas Behavior Simulator

Hard-sphere collision simulation validating classical gas laws

PythonNumPyMatplotlibSciPy+1 more
2023● Completed
15
ML & AIMath/StatsSoftware

Advanced Gyroscopic Stabilization

Mechanical stabilizers using gyroscopic principles for precision instruments

PythonC++ArduinoMPU-6050+1 more
2023● Completed
16
Software

Fair Rent Distribution Calculator

ML-powered rent calculator using hedonic regression for mathematically fair pricing

PythonFlaskBootstrapHTML5+2 more
2023● Completed
17
SoftwareMath/StatsPhysics

Educational Projectile Motion Simulator

Interactive physics education tool with adaptive AI difficulty

PythonPygamePhysics EngineAI
2022● Completed
18
Software

Spotify-YouTube Music Downloader

Automated tool to download Spotify playlists via YouTube with metadata

PythonPyQt5Spotify APIYouTube API+2 more
2022● Completed

Technical Skills

Quantitative & Finance

  • Python
  • C++
  • Monte Carlo Methods
  • Derivatives Pricing
  • Stochastic Calculus
  • Risk Modelling

Engineering

  • React / Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Rust
  • Solidity
  • Docker
  • Git

Machine Learning

  • PyTorch
  • JAX
  • Deep Learning
  • NLP
  • Transformers
  • RAG

Physics & Mathematics

  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Differential Equations
  • Probability Theory
  • Numerical Methods
  • Linear Algebra

Research & Publications

Exploring the intersection of physics, mathematics, and computational finance through rigorous research and innovative solutions

FinLLM-HALO-500:AFinancialQ&ABenchmarkwithNovelMetricsforEvaluatingandMitigatingLLMHallucinations-ComingSoon

EMNLP 2026 (Target)2026

In Progress

Manually curated and open-sourced FinHALO-500, a 500-pair SEC finance Q&A benchmark and mitigation library, introducing two novel evaluation metrics: NIWH (materiality-weighted errors) and BAHE (cost-performance optimisation). Developed end-to-end mitigation pipeline combining RAG with QLoRA fine-tuning, reducing GPT-4o hallucinations by >20pp on SEC filing numeric tasks while slashing inference costs by 78%.

Manuscript in preparation

AdvancedVolatilityModelingusingDeepLearning-ComingSoon

Journal of Financial Data Science (Target)2026

In Progress

Novel approach to volatility forecasting combining LSTM networks with traditional GARCH models. Emphasis on high-frequency trading data and market microstructure.

Manuscript in preparation

RoughPathTheoryApplicationsinNeuralNetworkOptimisation-ComingSoon

JMLR / NeurIPS 2026 (Target)2026

In Progress

Theoretical framework connecting path integrals from physics to neural network training dynamics. Applications to understanding loss landscape geometry and optimisation trajectories.

Manuscript in preparation

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Open to opportunities in quantitative research, data science, and software engineering roles.

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