EVERYTHING CAN BE OPTIMIZED.
FRAMEWORK HIGHLIGHTS
Exploring Strategic Opportunities
The Talking Leaves framework was developed for quantitative trading and is actively running our quant hedge fund. The abstract time-series / simulation layer would also add value in adjacent industries.
Time-Tested
Our framework is backed by 18+ person-years of focused development and four years of production trading.
Clean Design
Our proprietary framework is comprised of a mathematically abstract layer and a finance specific layer.
Smart Collaboration
Innovative distributed caching accelerates research by streamlining reproducibility and shared experimentation.
We model everything end-to-end—from raw inputs to outgoing orders—in a optimized, automated framework. Built-in reproducibility, time-aware design, and distributed caching streamline collaboration, allowing the team to focus on true innovation: new markets, new data, new signals, and cutting-edge AI techniques.
LEADERSHIP

Jade Vinson, Ph.D., CFA
Founder & CEO
Experience:
Jade has 17 years of experience in quantitative trading: 9 years advancing all aspects of world-best trading systems at Renaissance Technologies and 8 years assembling a team and building an all-new trading system at Talking Leaves.
Prior to quantitative trading, Jade had a successful academic career in Mathematics, Genome Assembly, and Comparative Genomics.
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Fun Facts:
Jade has served as a Trustee of the National Museum of Mathematics since 2013.
In recreational mathematics, he is known for unique jewelry design of “Pythagorean Earrings”.

Jeff Lee
Experience:
Jeff was the first hire at Talking Leaves, with a background in software consulting and a focus on computer vision and machine learning. He met Jade through Deep Learning RTP, where they both led technical study groups. Jeff holds a degree in Economics from UNC Chapel Hill.
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