Nathaniel Coulter

Nathaniel Coulter is a quantitative researcher at Columbia University whose work focuses on machine learning, quantitative finance, market microstructure, and algorithmic trading. He founded and managed Coulter Capital Management, a quantitative hedge fund focused on automated trading and equity derivatives. His academic research includes transformer architectures for financial time series, neural portfolio allocation, and cross-asset quantitative modeling. Coulter holds a B.S. in Financial Mathematics with a minor in Data Science and an M.S. in Finance from St. John’s University, and is currently a postgraduate researcher at Columbia University in New York. He also speaks Mandarin Chinese and, prior to founding Coulter Capital Management, studied under Dr. James Watson at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.