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Shriraghav Ashok

UC Berkeley CS & Business student building AI systems at the intersection of computational finance, rare-event modeling, and applied machine learning.

Applied AI / ML Computational Finance IEEE Research Venture Capital Rare-Event Modeling
Shriraghav Ashok

Education

UC Berkeley — Haas School of Business

B.S. Computer Science & Business Administration · Expected May 2029 · Berkeley, CA

BASIS Peoria

High School · Peoria, AZ

U.S. News 2024: #1 high school in the United States

ACT: 35  ·  ACT Writing: 12/12  ·  SAT: 1520

Coursework: AP Statistics, AP Calculus AB, AP Microeconomics & Macroeconomics, AP Chemistry, AP Physics 1 & 2

Experience

NexHacks

2024 – Present

Co-Organizer

  • Secured $1,500,000 in sponsorships from A16Z, Cursor, and JPMorgan — one of the largest high school hackathon fundraises in the country.
  • Scaled event to 1,500 student participants nationwide, managing logistics, partnerships, and programming end-to-end.

Nexus AI Research Program

2024 – Present

Research Fellow  ·  1/50 selected nationally

  • Sole-authored probabilistic early-warning system for U.S. bank liquidity crises, integrating FFIEC call reports, macroeconomic indicators, and real-time sentiment signals; achieved 7% improvement in accuracy.
  • Published as first-author at MIT IEEE URTC (main track) and placed 1st at NARC Research Conference for novel multi-source risk modeling framework.

Horizon Labs — Microsoft Sponsored

Jun 2025 – Present

Artificial Intelligence Engineer  ·  Philadelphia, PA  ·  1 of 5 high school students invited

  • Designed a physics-aware EWS to predict hurricane-induced port disruptions, improving accuracy by over 11% and cutting prediction time to under 20 seconds. Research received Best Paper Runner Up at IEEE ICDM UGHS.
  • Led a team of 5+ to design 6 applied AI projects to scale startup growth, reaching over 15,000 views.

Boston Commons Asset Management

Jun 2025 – Oct 2025

Financial Analyst Intern  ·  Boston, MA

  • Conducted market analysis, comparable company analysis, and DCF modeling to develop an investment report for initiation of Avenues Supermarket to a $3B portfolio.
  • Presented findings to the company CEO and was featured in the Young Investors Society newsletter, reaching over 25,000 monthly readers.

Morgan Stanley

Oct 2024 – Mar 2025

Finance Academy Scholar  ·  Remote  ·  Cohort of 120

  • Mentored by Morgan Stanley professionals over 5 months, exploring finance principles, market dynamics, and investment frameworks.
  • Competed in the Morgan Stanley Case Competition — constructed a corporate bond offering for Southwest Airlines as lead left bookrunner. Awarded finalist pitch (top 4).

Distinctions

Debate — National Speech & Debate Association

  • Ranked 3rd / 18,000 Varsity PF Internationally
  • Ranked 1st in Arizona across all events — NSDA
  • 2× Gold TOC Qualifier  ·  8 Tournament of Champions qualifying bids
  • Arizona ASDCA Public Forum State Champion
  • 2nd @ Stanford Invitational
  • 3rd @ Jack Howe CSU Long Beach Invitational  ·  1st Speaker
  • 3rd @ UNLV Golden Desert Invitational
  • 5th @ UC Berkeley Cal Invitational  ·  9th Speaker
  • 9th @ Florida Blue Key Invitational
  • 14th Speaker @ Harvard Invitational
  • 9th Speaker @ ASU Invitational
  • 1/12 nationally invited @ Florida Blue Key Round Robin
  • 1/12 nationally invited @ Blake John Edie Debates Round Robin
  • 1/12 nationally invited @ Cal Round Robin
  • NSDA All American  ·  NSDA Seal of Premier Distinction

Business & Finance — YIS · Morgan Stanley · Bloomberg

  • Morgan Stanley Case Competition Grand Award
  • 3rd / 1,000 @ YIS Global Stock Pitch Competition
  • Top 100 @ YIS Global Case Competition
  • Morgan Stanley Jumpstart Scholar
  • Bloomberg Market Concepts High School Pilot Program Invitee
  • Youth Capital Grants National Finalist (5th)

Research — IEEE

  • Best Paper Runner Up @ IEEE ICDM UGHS
  • Accepted @ IEEE ICDM UGHS
  • Accepted @ IEEE MIT URTC Main Technical Track
  • 1st @ NARC Research Conference
  • Nexus AI Fellow — 1/50 selected nationally

Other

  • NexHacks — raised $1,500,000 in sponsorships from A16Z, Cursor, and JPMorgan; 1,500 participants nationwide

Projects

IEEE ICDM UGHS · Best Paper Runner Up

FS-PREM

Physics-aware few-shot framework for predicting port disruption in the US Gulf Coast. Combines streaming conformal prediction, sequential modeling, and L1/group-lasso regularized linear modeling. Engineered the PORTEX Risk Index — Hazard, Proximity, Uncertainty, Exposure, Vulnerability — via a modular web scraper. LightGBM · XGBoost · Optuna · SHAP

GitHub IEEE Paper
IEEE MIT URTC · Main Technical Track

CrisisSignal (Nexus)

Early-warning system using probabilistic ML to detect financial liquidity crises in intermediate US banks. Fine-tuned LightGBM on a 34-feature multimodal dataset achieving R² = 0.92 and MSE = 0.0021. Alternative-data integration pipeline improved predictive performance 664% and top-risk bank identification accuracy by over 2×. Scikit-learn · PyTorch · Conformal Prediction

GitHub

Clusion

AI-native debate engine combining rankings, evidence retrieval, coaching, judging, and tournament planning in one unified framework. Multi-agent LLM system with iterative adversarial reasoning loops. Reached over 10,000 users across 7 countries. Python · HTML

Live Site

ViralCraft

Agentic AI marketing platform that generates viral-ready campaigns and predicts engagement performance. Built at Horizon Labs / FII Research.

GitHub

ExpenseWise

AI-powered personal finance assistant that automates expense tracking and delivers personalized budgeting insights. Built at Horizon Labs / FII Research.

GitHub

Research

IEEE ICDM UGHS · Best Paper Runner Up

FS-PREM — Port Disruption Prediction

Physics-aware few-shot framework predicting hurricane-induced US Gulf Coast port disruptions. Improved accuracy by over 11% with prediction latency under 20 seconds.

IEEE Xplore GitHub
IEEE MIT URTC · Main Technical Track

CrisisSignal — Financial Liquidity Crisis EWS

ML-based probabilistic early-warning system for detecting financial liquidity crises in intermediate US banks, improving detection accuracy by 7%.

GitHub

Activities

BASIS Peoria Debate — National Circuit Captain

Ranked 3rd / 18,000 internationally in Public Forum Debate. 2nd at Stanford, 5th at Cal, 2× Gold TOC qualifier. Ran the largest Arizona debate team, managing 100+ members. Awarded NSDA Top 10 National.

BASIS Peoria Economics Club — President & Founder

Founded and scaled economics club from 0 to 56 members; organized and ran weekly club meetings. Coached students to T20/T50 finishes at US Econ Olympiad, 1st in Arizona at Wharton Investment Competition, 3rd at GYIS, and 2nd at AZ Economics Challenge.

Athena EdTech — National Ambassador

Developed responsible AI curriculum for K-12 education. Expanded nonprofit operations across 5+ countries, reaching 20,000 students.

PrepWorksEDU — Board of Directors

Worked with 3 politicians in the Arizona Department of Education to incorporate 14+ company policy papers into legislation (1 pending Congressional approval). Launched tutoring program serving 2,000+ underprivileged students.

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