Alphathon 2025

A Quantitative Finance Competition

Welcome to Alphathon 2025! The SQA is thrilled to announce #Alphathon2025, a hackathon in quantitative finance, organized jointly by the Society of Quantitative Analysts SQA and the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology CEWIT at Stony Brook University!

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

Alphathon 2025 is a month-long, online quantitative finance competition with in-person finals in New York City.

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

Get Involved

Alphathon 2025 is open to graduate students, academics and industry professionals alike, able to attend the final in person in Manhattan if successful. Alphathon 2025 is 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 will have substantial visibility in the industry, including the Question sponsors, and SQA member investment firms. You can compete in teams of 1 - 3 individuals. If you're interested in recruitment opportunities, you may opt in and attach a PDF version of your Resume. See more details at Sign Up.

Apply Now to Compete — Selected Participants Will Be Invited to Join Alphathon 2025

Applications close:
Sunday, August 31^st, 2025

Showcase your skills, solve real-world quant challenges, and present in New York City.

Compete

Apply your learning and
compete in Alphathon 2025

We will equip you with the
knowledge, tools, and data

Sign Up Now

Attend

Don't miss our Alphathon Conference
this October

Hear from our great Speakers
and Alphathon Winners

Learn More

Questions

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

Learn More About The Questions

Alphathon 2025 Question Partners include the following:

Provide a Question

Open to select investment firms
(buy-side, sell-side, allocators),
subject to SQA approval

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Thank You,

The 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 Supporters

Our full Alphathon 2025 data supporters will be publicly announced together with the Data Release on:
Monday, September 1^st, 2025

For context, last year's Alphathon 2024 Supporters, who provided data, infrastructure, risk models and/or compute time, included:

Sponsor

A number of
Sponsorship Tiers and
Opportunities are available
including:

Data
Infrastructure
Compute
Monetary Sponsorship
Award Sponsorship

Inquire Now