2020
Sokhal says gas markets had extreme volatility in 2020 during Covid, and she discussed this in her Fulbright interview.
“I don't know if you remember 2020 when it was Covid, and gas markets were going crazy, so there was there was like gas markets had insane volatility.”
Anekha Sokhal · The Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi, 0:04:34
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Sokhal studied mathematics, operational research, statistics and economics (MORSE) as an undergraduate at the University of Warwick.
“my undergraduate degree was mathematics, operational research, statistics and economics, MORSE at Warwick.”
Anekha Sokhal · The Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi, 0:02:08
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Sokhal began her trading career at J.P. Morgan on the emerging markets desk and then moved to commodities.
“So I got my first internship, um, in investment banking and trading, and then got an internship at J. P. Morgan, where I started, and I started on the emerging markets desk and then moved to commodities.”
Anekha Sokhal · The Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi, 0:02:56
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Sokhal's parents run a jewelry business, and she ran a computer vision side startup at university before founding Moshi.
“my parents have a jewelry business. I side hustled a computer vision startup before my startup at university”
Anekha Sokhal · The Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi, 0:04:06
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Sokhal did machine learning research in the US, publishing at ICLR with Stability AI and working with NASA.
“was deep in machine learning research, published at I C L R with Stability A I, worked in collaboration with NASA”
Anekha Sokhal · The Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi, 0:05:08
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Sokhal says Moshi learns about 300 new things in the four seconds it takes her to say one sentence.
“it takes me four seconds to say the sentence to you, and in the same amount of time, Moshi has learned 300 new things.”
Anekha Sokhal · The Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi, 0:06:16
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Sokhal says Moshi does not want to send customer data to third-party document-processing vendors.
“if someone's giving us their their data, we don't wanna be sending it to a third party.”
Anekha Sokhal · The Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi, 0:17:32