Patrick Taylor

AI engineering• markets

I build tools. I'm a third-year Mathematics and Engineering student at Queen's University, in the Computing and Communication option, from Toronto.

AI is going into everything, and most of my projects come back to the same problem: understanding what these systems are actually doing, and building the checks that keep them compliant and accountable. Right now that means q-deformed numbers, as an NSERC undergraduate researcher, and QUBE, where I'm Director of Capital and co-built the club's portfolio competition app, rolling out this term.

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Experience

where I have worked
  1. The QUBE team at the club's tent on campus
    QUBE Capital GroupSept 2024 – present

    Queen's undergraduate business and engineering club. I co-direct the Capital team, and co-built the club's portfolio competition app, rolling out this term.

    1. Director of CapitalApr 2026 – present
    2. IT Sector Portfolio ManagerApr 2025 – Apr 2026
    3. First Year RepresentativeSept 2024 – Apr 2025
  2. NSERC USRA, Queen's MathematicsMay – Aug 2026

    Used machine learning and large-scale computation to look for patterns in pure mathematics, with Profs. Dimitrov, Paquette, and Wehlau. More.

  3. Private Academic Tutor, Nick's MethodApr – June 2025

    Tutored mathematics and computer science.

Projects

what I have built
Selected
The QUBE Portfolio leaderboard
Portfolio competition app
A mock trading contest for a student investment club, co-built for QUBE and rolling out this term.
The Whale Agent site and a sample daily digest
Whale Agent
Reads what investors must disclose in three countries, and prices it in one currency.
Out-of-sample equity curves for four portfolio methods
Does a smarter portfolio hold up?
Walk-forward backtest on 10 sector ETFs. Sharpe 0.86 against 0.64, 41% smaller max drawdown.
The four-fifths screen, with two comparisons flagged for review
Which lenders fail the fairness test?
A four-fifths screen over 32.6 million mortgage applications (36.7 million HMDA records). 614 of 5,329 lenders flagged.
The Understudy mark and name over a blurred course schedule from the app
Understudy
A study tutor that answers from your own course files and cites the page.
The Roleweave mark and name over a blurred board of internship applications
Roleweave
A careers tracker whose resume writer only prints what it can prove.

Understudy and Roleweave are built by Carrel Labs.

Tools
Roots of R(q) on the complex plane
qreals
Exact arithmetic on q-deformed numbers
A steady, unchanging waveform
steady
Focus audio generated in the browser
The chance of an on-time TTC arrival
TTC Monte Carlo
The chance of an on-time arrival
Research
An attention map
Interpretability on VLMs
Lead author, NeurIPS 2026 workshop paper
Scattered agent values converging to one agreed value
Multi-agent consensus
Agents that can only see their neighbours converge on the same value.
Built for other people
QUBE website qubequeens.com↗
Some of my work is club or client work that I cannot open-source. My GitHub has the rest.
Awards and certifications
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Undergraduate Student Research Award August 2026 A competitive national NSERC award. It funds a full-time summer of research under a professor.
Canadian Securities Institute, Canadian Securities Course August 2025 The standard licensing course for securities work in Canada.
Anthropic, Claude Certified Architect, Foundations July 2026 Anthropic's certification for building with Claude.
Earlier work: Exploring the Extremes, exoplanet survey, Harvard Summer School.
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Last updated on Sep 20, 2026