Jan 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Deterministic Optimization course part of the Online MS Analytics program
• Organized office hours to provide tutoring and assistance for 100+ graduate students. Responsible for clarifying doubts on Piazza

Jan 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Working with Prof. Siva Theja Maguluri on designing algorithms that allow system stability and reduce cost of spatial matching in two-sided queueing systems.
• Implemented Monte Carlo simulations of the algorithms using SciPy and NetworkX to study their performance across systems.

Jun 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru

• Analyst, Credit Risk Strats
• Responsible for building and optimizing FRTB CVA capital models to capture the trading costs accurately.
• Onboarded a new mortgage related product under the FRTB SA-CVA regime. Owned the FRTB BA-CVA Capital models.
• Contributed to the development of a loss ratings model for equity-backed margin loans.

Jun 2021 – Jul 2021 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked with the Credit Risk Strats Team on reducing compute usage incurred by a distributed implementation of CVA (Credit Valuation Adjustment) calculations.
• Proposed and implemented techniques that resulted in reduction of upto 90% machines used and 51% reduction in usage time.
• Was awarded a Pre-Placement Offer for the performance in the internship.

May 2021 – Apr 2022 · 11 mos

• Led a 3 tier team of about 120 students to conduct 42 events and 24 workshops in Shaastra 2022 with a budget of Rs. 1.85 million.
• By improving publicity strategies and restructuring the team, enhanced participation, leading to 25,000 registrants for our events.
• Ideated and organised a nationwide Data Science Research Symposium to enable students to showcase their research work in Shaastra.

Apr 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Spearheaded a team of 20 coordinators and 15 volunteers to conduct pan-India events as a part of Shaastra 2021.
• Responsible for a budget of 6.5L and managed the conduction of 15 Events, most of which were sponsored by Wells Fargo, AstraZeneca, MTX and Subex.
• Added impetus to Shaastra’s social campaign “She Can” through a women’s hackathon She-Hacks.

Apr 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr

• Ideated and implemented two brand new events, namely "Debug the Code" and "Esoteric Programming Contest" in Shaastra 2020.
• Led a set of 7 volunteers, came up with problem statements, checker codes and methods of evaluation. Both the events witnessed a participation of about 150 teams each.
• Ensured the completion of MoUs undertaken with Wells Fargo and American Express.

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr

• Bachelor's thesis, guided by Prof. Upendra Natarajan, (Macromolecular Modelling and Simulation Lab)
• Modeled synthetic polymers using the faster implicit solvent based method: Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver (APBS).
• Used GROMACS MD Simulation to sample polymer conformers and developed a framework to simulate them in APBS.
• Benchmarked the trends of solvation energy with respect to chain length. See Publications.

May 2020 – Jul 2020 · 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Developed a de Novo design (computational drug design) method using deep-RL framework in the therapeutic area of Oncology.
• Improvised an Actor-Critic model developed by Niclas et al. and enabled it to optimize the molecule’s potency (pIC50 value).
• Built an XGBoost regressor to predict the pIC50 of a drug targeting AKT protein and achieved an R2 value of 0.7.

Apr 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Led 20 correspondents as a part of the 6 member editorial team. Ideated and published articles on a plethora of topics from startups to research and reporting. In addition, was responsible for managing the social media pages.

Jul 2019 – Apr 2020 · 9 mos

• As a correspondent in The Fifth Estate, the student-run news body of IIT M I have interviewed multiple student heads and student representatives and published articles on a variety of themes ranging from day to day affairs to documenting the history of student communities.