Abraham O. Alpuerto

Home: Bridgeport, NY

Hey, I am a Computer and Systems Engineering student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), currently transitioning into the accelerated Master’s program for admit Spring 2026. My specialization is in applications of Machine Learning and Engineering AI Systems.

I currently am a research assistant at Columbia Secure FinAI Lab where I just had a paper accepted to the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop. At the lab most of my work involves working on an AI agent that leverages a knowledge base database, multi-agent communications like MCP and A2A protocols, and fine-tuning with parameter efficient techniques (PEFT).

When I am not doing all this I like to work on side projects, play volleyball, enjoy the outdoors, spend time friends, and chill out with my dogs.

news

Sep 24, 2025	My paper has been accepted for poster presentation at NeurIPS 2025 GenAI in Finance Workshop!

selected publications

NeurIPS

Orchestration Framework for Financial Agents: From Algorithmic Trading to Agentic Trading

Jifeng Li^*, Arnav Grover^*, Abraham Alpuerto, and 2 more authors

In NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Generative AI in Finance, Dec 2025

Accepted for Poster Presentation

Abs PDF Poster

We propose an end-to-end orchestration framework that democratizes financial intelligence by mapping traditional algorithmic trading components (Data, Alpha, Risk, Portfolio) to specialized AI agents. By utilizing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for orchestration and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols for peer communication, we achieve a modular system where LLMs handle reasoning while preventing data leakage. In backtesting on hourly stock data (04/2024–12/2024), our framework achieved a Sharpe ratio of 2.63 compared to the S&P 500’s 1.86.