01 • Technical labs
Hands-on quant experimentation
We’ll start with small, well-scoped projects: backtests, data explorations, and microstructure demos that you can reproduce on your own laptop with public data.
New student-run quant club @ UCLA
Launching the first Bruin quant community on campus.
Bruin Quants is a brand-new student organization for Bruins interested in quantitative finance, systematic trading, and financial engineering. We’re building a space to learn, experiment, and recruit for top hedge funds, trading firms, and quant groups — starting with our founding cohort.
Python • C++ • Data
Market microstructure
Interview prep • Brainteasers
Program vision
What we’re building inside Bruin Quants.
As a new club, we’re designing a program that blends deep technical work with practical career prep: implementing trading ideas, learning tools, and preparing for quant recruiting together.
Meet the initial board →
02 • Career prep
Learning the quant recruiting game
Together we’ll compile interview resources, run mock interviews, and share prep strategies for quant, trading, and SWE/quant roles — with everything openly documented.
03 • Community
A focused, curious cohort
As a founding member, you help set the culture: collaborative, serious about learning, but low-ego and supportive.
Founding
Starting from zero — on purpose.
Bruin Quants is launching this year. There’s no legacy to fake — just students who like math, markets, and code, building something real from the ground up.
Transparent from day one
We’re explicit about what’s aspirational versus what already exists. Early projects, docs, and resources will be hosted publicly whenever possible.
Who we’re for
If you’re curious about probability, optimization, and building things in code, you’re the audience. Finance background is optional.
Where we’re going
Long-term, we’d love firms to recognize Bruin Quants as a talent pipeline. Short-term, we’re focused on learning and shipping our first few projects.
Planned events
What our first year might look like.
These are sample events we plan to run in our launch year. Exact dates will be announced once we’re officially registered and have a room.
Explore planned project tracks →
Kickoff: What is a quant?
Launch
Intro to Market Making & Order Books
Workshop
Quant Interview Practice Night
Prep
Sample strategy tape (paper)
SPY-MOM+1.3% 20d paper PnL
STAT-ARB+0.8% 90d Sharpe 1.9 (backtest)
VOL-SURF+0.4% skew monitor demo
ML-ALPHA+0.2% toy classifier
LATENCY-0.3ms sim improvement
RISKflat demo constraints
SPY-MOM+1.3% 20d paper PnL
STAT-ARB+0.8% 90d Sharpe 1.9 (backtest)
VOL-SURF+0.4% skew monitor demo
ML-ALPHA+0.2% toy classifier
LATENCY-0.3ms sim improvement
RISKflat demo constraints