Andrew Arbelaez

Graduate Research Assistant

Andrew Arbelaez is a Research Assistant at the Defense Industrial Base Institute (DIBI) at Northeastern University, where he applies quantitative methods to questions at the intersection of defense industrial policy and analytical modeling. His work includes building Monte Carlo simulation modules to model investment risk and quantify uncertainty across potential geographic locations.

Andrew is pursuing a Master of Science in Quantitative Finance at Northeastern, with a concentration in Investments and Analytics, and participates in the 360 Huntington Fund, the university’s student-run mutual fund. He previously served as an Equity Research Analyst with the fund, where he helped manage $2M in assets under management and authored original research on potential investments. His prior experience also includes equity research work covering valuation modeling, DCF analysis, and trading comparables.

His independent research spans systematic trading and volatility modeling, including an SSRN-published framework for constructing and fitting implied volatility surfaces using the SVI parameterization. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science in International Business from Johnson & Wales University and is fluent in English and Spanish.