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AI Research Lead @ J.P. Morgan · NYC

Founding member of J.P. Morgan AI Research. I lead our program on Foundation Models for Markets & Trading – models that learn how markets work, from trade-level data to world models.

Srijan Sood

Career

J.P. Morgan
AI Research Lead, Vice President · 2023 – Present

Established the Foundation Models for Markets & Trading program; architected TradeFM, a foundation model trained on billions of trades that learns price-formation dynamics across thousands of equities. Deep RL for portfolio optimization, reproduced and deployed by an institutional client; knowledge graphs and graph ML for financial analysis.

AI Research Scientist, Senior Associate · 2019 – 2022

Fairness-aware ML for consumer lending (>17k models trained in production AutoML). Time series forecasting for equities.

Georgia Tech
M.Sc. Computer Science · 2018 – 2019

RL for language model alignment (Mark Riedl) and RL for trading (Tucker Balch).

Aerial Intelligence
Machine Learning Engineer · 2017 – 2018

Satellite imagery ML for land-cover classification and crop yield prediction.

Georgia Tech
B.Sc. Computer Science, Highest Honors · 2013 – 2017

Thesis: Domain Adaptation in RL (Charles Isbell).

Nervana Systems
Machine Learning Intern · 2016

High-throughput ML infrastructure (~70× speedup); neural style transfer.

PayPal
Software Engineering Intern · 2015

Risk data science and analytics.

Software Engineering Intern · 2014

Embedded systems firmware.


Selected Publications

Pairwise Likelihood Ranking for Imbalanced Sequence Classification
S. Sood*, M. Kawawa-Beaudan*, T. Balch, M. Veloso · ECML-PKDD 2026
Pairwise Likelihood Ranking paper figure
AI in Investment Analysis: LLMs for Equity Stock Ratings
K. Papasotiriou, S. Sood, S. Reynolds, T. Balch · ICAIF 2024
LLM Ratings paper figure
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Portfolio Allocation
S. Sood, K. Papasotiriou, M. Vaiciulis, T. Balch · ICAPS FinPlan 2023
DRL Portfolio paper figure