Alphathon 2025

#Alphathon2025 was a quantitative finance competition, organized jointly by the Society of Quantitative Analysts SQA and the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology CEWIT at Stony Brook University!

Relevant questions on alpha research, dealing with asynchronous data, using ML and LLMs in fundamental research, trading costs and portfolio construction were posed by Point72 / Cubist, AllianceBernstein, Principal and Northfield.

The competition aimed to develop and evaluate cutting-edge forecasting solutions for financial industry professionals, utilizing the latest mathematical, statistical and machine learning techniques and alternative datasets.

120 Participants, in 62 Teams, were accepted among many more to compete in Alphathon 2025. But at the end, there could only be 1 winning team per Question!

Key Dates 2025

Questions Announced	Monday, August 18^th
Application Deadline	Sunday, August 31^st
Data Released, Start Coding	Monday, September 1^st
Welcome Social	Wednesday, September 3^rd
Mid-Alphathon Conference	Wednesday, September 17^th
Submissions Deadline	Tuesday, September 30^th
Finalists Announcement	Friday, October 3^th
Final Conference, Awards	Thursday, October 9^th

Alphathon 2025 was open to graduate students, academics and industry professionals alike, able to attend the final in person in Manhattan if successful. Alphathon 2025 was designed for individuals eager to enhance their skills in quantitative finance and to engage with the latest advancements in technology and data analysis in the financial sector. Winners received substantial visibility in the industry, including the Question sponsors, and SQA member investment firms. Participants competed in teams of 1 - 3 individuals. Recruitment opportunities were provided on an optional, opt-in basis.

Question Partners 2025

Alphathon Questions were of real relevance to Hedge Funds and Asset Managers, and covered different areas of Quantitative Investment like Alpha Forecasting, Portfolio Optimization, dealing with Large, Alternative, Unstructured or High Frequency Data, Machine Learning and AI. Questions were provided and judged jointly by the SQA and our Question Partners.

Click above to learn more about the Alphathon 2025 Questions, Winners and the Alphathon 2025 Final and Conference!

Alphathon 2025 Question Partners included the following:

Thank You,

The 2025 Organizing Committee

Christos Koutsoyannis
Chief Investment Officer, Atlas Ridge Capital
Adjunct Professor, NYU Courant
Executive Advisory Board, Columbia Business School, Program for Financial Studies

Pawel Polak
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and
Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Advanced Computational Science,
Stony Brook University

Our 2025 Supporters

A big thank you to our Alphathon 2025 supporters, who kindly provided
sponsorship, event space, data, infrastructure, risk models and/or compute time:

Alphathon 2025

Past Event

Alphathon 2025

Key Dates 2025

Question Partners 2025

Thank You,

The 2025 Organizing Committee

Our 2025 Supporters