Accepting a small number of engagements for Q2 2026.
Principal: Aryan Ayyar, MAHE Bengaluru.

Bengaluru · India

Independent microstructure advisory

Where theory
meets the trade.

Work on limit-order-book dynamics, execution quality, and how information becomes price — documented in writing, not slideware.

Services

What we deliver For desks & institutions

How an engagement runs

  1. 01Listen firstMap the friction — adverse selection, implementation shortfall, or model misspecification.
  2. 02Model the mechanismBuild a theoretical skeleton — Kyle, Almgren–Chriss, or bespoke — before touching data.
  3. 03Calibrate to realityTest against live or historical flow; refine assumptions; document failure modes honestly.
  4. 04Deliver clarityAlways a written artefact: memo, spec, or working paper — not a deck as the sole output.
About

Built on first principles.

Shunya was founded on the conviction that rigorous theory and real-world market practice are not in tension — they are complementary. We work where order books form, where information becomes price, and where execution quality determines performance.

Aryan Ayyar

Founder · Fellow-in-Residence, MAHE Bengaluru

Researcher in market microstructure and quantitative finance. Work spans limit order book dynamics, optimal execution theory, and the pedagogy of quantitative methods — deployed across trading and academic institutions in India.

Voices

The LOB work brought rigour I had not seen outside top-tier academic research. Derivations are clean; intuition is sharper.

Research collaboratorInstitution withheld

The execution memo was what we needed: assumptions explicit, numbers reproducible — no vendor fairy dust.

Head of tradingBuys-side firm withheld
Contact

Work with Shunya.

Shunya takes a limited number of engagements. If your problem involves market structure, execution quality, volatility modelling, or quantitative research — write with a short problem statement.

Typical response · Within 48 hours for qualified enquiries.