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Eren Mendi

Eren Mendi

Co-Founder & CPO; MSc Advanced Computing; software engineer

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Joined April 2026
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Summary

Student leader in trading and investment: held multiple roles in the Edinburgh University Trading & Investment Club, including Chairman and sector/head analyst roles, indicating sustained involvement in student-run real-money trading and research activities. finalscout
Hackathon and market-making developer: participated in HackTheBurgh / Optiver challenges and was part of Team LAB that developed a market-making algorithm using sentiment analysis and achieved top hourly PnL in the competition. devpost+1
Academic and systems researcher: engaged in research at the University of Edinburgh (School of Informatics) and co-authored a MobiUK paper on harnessing idle edge compute for foundation model inference. mobiuk+1
Early industry experience and product leadership: combines short-term software and data-science industry internships (Vodafone, Optiver, Citadel, Barclays, Mobven) and a software-engineer role at G-Research with a co-founder/Product leadership listing at Expanse. expanse

Work

Education

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Writing

On Harnessing Idle Compute at the Edge for Foundation Model Inference (MobiUK abstract)

January 1, 2025

Conference abstract/paper exploring the use of idle edge compute to support foundation model inference; authors include Leyang Xue, Eren Mendi, Ismaeel Bashir and Mahesh K. Marina.

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Hobbies

Member of the university Tennis Club.

Participant in the Poker Society.