Professional & Academic Experience

Supervision of PhD student — Aug 2025 – present.
Visiting Research Scholar, Purdue University, School of Industrial Engineering — Summer 2024.
Teaching Assistant (Calculus, Probability, Statistics), TU Eindhoven — Aug 2020 – Feb 2023.
Poster Presentation, LMS Probability Research School, Liverpool — 26 Jun 2023 – 30 Jun 2023.
Speaker, Networks Training Week, Asperen — May 2022; Oct 2022.
Invited Speaker, Bézout–Eurandom Conference (Franco–Dutch Meeting), IHP, Paris — Jul 2021.
Invited, Master Classes in Probability, Strasbourg University — Jan 2020.

Industry & Research Internships

State Street Global Advisors, Bangalore — Intern, Trainee in Investment Research (Active Quantitative Equity), Summer 2019.
- Portfolio optimization (factor-model–based) following Beasley’s survey of models and approaches.
- Accelerated large-scale matrix inversion via the Woodbury identity; unconstrained step < 2 s for ~2×10⁵ dimension.
- Constrained portfolio optimization with CVXR on >45,000 assets and 250 factors (industry/style).
NovelSynth Soft Solutions (Petrabytes), Bangalore — Intern, Winter 2017.
- Studied and documented core ML algorithms (perceptron, neural networks) with worked examples.

ISI Teachers’ Committee Awards for Outstanding Academic Performance in all semesters of M.Stat (2018–2020).
ISI Teachers’ Committee Awards for Outstanding Academic Performance in five of six semesters of B.Math (Hons.) (2015–2018).
Institute stipend/fellowship throughout M.Stat and B.Math (Hons.).
Offer received: IRMIA Labex Doctoral Grant (2020).
Nominated for the P. C. Mahalanobis Gold Medal (Top 4; M.Stat, 2018–2020, ISI).
International Rank 41 & Zonal Rank 1 (UP & Uttarakhand), SOF–International Mathematics Olympiad (2015).
All India Rank 9 — ISI M.Stat Entrance Examination.
Top 1% in NSEP (2014–2015); Merit Certificate, Indian Association of Physics Teachers.