Anastasia Popova graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 2023 with a Bachelor's degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics. While at Caltech, she interned at Goldman Sachs as well as participated in many academic research projects at Caltech. She joined the MSCF program in hopes of honing quantitative finance skills as well as broadening her financial knowledge and hopes to use these skills in a career in quantitative trading or quantitative research.