May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Remote

• Worked on controllable generation in large language models ( LLMs ).
• Built Prompt Layer for internal LLM Gateway} project.
• Led project on a novel reasoning algorithm for LLMs, via classification. Submitted to a prominent conference in NLP.

Sep 2022 – May 2023 · 8 mos · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Aug 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Worked on developing mathematical pricing and volatility models (and adjacent infrastructure) for linear and nonlinear rates derivatives products.

Feb 2021 – Jul 2021 · 5 mos · India

Jul 2020 – Sep 2020 · 2 mos

• Worked on statistical analysis of returns of several strategies for trading crypto derivatives.
• Developed a package for internal use, and conducted deep-dive quantitative work into tracker strategies.
• Presented research to institutional investors, including leading hedge fund managers.

Oct 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Saitama, Japan

• Worked on developing the open source QuTiP library.
• Worked on developing an open source library to model Open Quantum Systems using HEOM to model the environment as a mixture of
• fermionic and bosonic baths, with Dr. Neill Lambert.
• Worked on studying Exceptional Points and exotic properties of large non-hermitian systems using a novel algorithm developed by me, with
• Dr. Fabrizio Minganti.
• Worked on optimizing Noisy Mean Field Annealing for NP hard problems using ideas from quantum thermodynamics, with Dr. Neill Lambert,
• Dr. Clemens Gneiting, and Dr. Ken Funo.
• Was invited to IBM’s camp. Worked with Dr. Rudy Raymond from IBM Research to develop a quantum overlapping tomography module using
• the idea of perfect hash families based on Frank Wilczek’s paper. Studied quality of entanglement in IBM’s machines.

Jul 2019 – Sep 2019 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked under Dr. Karthik Ramachandra, at Microsoft Research India, Bengaluru on Project Froid
• Implemented fix to a part of Froid that improved conditional diamond processing from exponential to linear
• Contributed to the open source Ibis repo, implemented an adapter to MSSQL
• Worked on PyFroid

Dec 2018 – Jun 2019 · 6 mos · Pune Area, India

• Broadly worked on Matrix Product States and DMRG
• Freshly extended and implemented DMRG to Hermitian matrices representing new types of physical systems called Potts Models
• Worked on Unitary Time Evolution of Hamiltonians using Trotter Gates
• Explored some ideas from quantum computing and information theory

Dec 2018 – Jun 2019 · 6 mos · Pune Area, India

• Developed market-neutral, medium-frequency Alphas that predict future stock returns
• Acquired basic knowledge of financial instruments, and investigated and implemented recent academic research
• Developed algorithms to filter and combine Alphas

May 2018 – Jun 2018 · 1 mo · Kolkata Area, India

• Was shortlisted by ACM India from a national pool of applicants to attend (top 100)
• Attended talks on contemporary cryptology research by, and worked alongside leading Indian cryptographers

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• Developed Natural Language Processing modules for an on-device, locally available voice recognition interface
• This entailed Morphological Segmentation of text corpora, Coreference Resolution of expressions, Sentiment Analysis of input text and hierarchical representation of concepts to compute similarity
• Used PostgreSQL, Scikit-learn, StanfordCoreNLP, Numpy, Pandas, BeautifulSoup, ElasticSearch, NLTK along with some other proprietary services