University of Toronto Research Assistant interview questions

I met the prof at an AI conference at the University of Toronto. I read some of his papers that I was interested in, and brought them up in conversation. I was then asked to join a lab meeting, and eventually got put on a random project.

BQ – Resume and Experience Tell me about yourself. Walk me through your resume. Focus on quant research, factor strategies, coding, and data-driven work. What was your most technical project? (e.g., rolling beta detection + factor strategy or portfolio optimization work) What’s a time you worked with incomplete or messy data? How did you clean and validate it? Describe a time you had to debug or fix a mistake in your analysis.