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Ella Papanek

Quantitative Sports Trader, Susquehanna International Group

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Ella Papanek is a competitive chess player and has been a Quantitative Sports Trader at Susquehanna International Group for three years. She received her B.A. in Statistics from Harvard University where she was Co-President of Harvard Sports Analysis Collective and captain of Harvard's Chess Team. While at Harvard, she led the team to win the Ivy-League Championships in 2021. She is among the top 100 female chess players in the United States and represented New York State in the National Girls Invitational Tournament in 2015 and 2017. Off the board, her chess research focuses on efficient decision making, human tendencies, and finding edges through contextual factors.

Ella has done extensive research in football analytics, with a focus on draft strategy and in-game decision making. She spent her senior year of college working for the Cleveland Browns in their Research and Strategy department.

Ella is also actively involved in the prediction markets and forecasting space as a beta tester and user of platforms like Augur, Kalshi, Polymarket, and Manifold.

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