Shourya (Shaun) Kataria is an academic scholar at Renaissance College Hong Kong with a strong aptitude for physics and computer science, and he aspires to work in quantitative finance in the future.

Under the guidance of Prof. Ray C. C. Cheung, Dr. Sanka and senior interns at CALAS, City University of Hong Kong, Shaun has strengthened his knowledge of hardware acceleration, logic gates and the fundamentals of FPGAs, including their architecture and role in high-frequency trading. During his two-week internship, he aims to train a rudimentary low-latency neural network to predict the prices of five different cryptocurrencies.