Resume

Experience

• Data Scientist, Microsoft, 2023 - Present
  • Building tools to analyze control parameters for quantum hardware fabrication process
• Senior Quantitative Analyst, Ørsted, 2020 - 2023
  • Devised power trading strategies in the short-term power markets
  • Enhanced and improved timeseries forecasting models for power market variables - prices, load, generation
  • Managing cross-function collaboration with various stakeholders to maintain and improve windfarm generation forecasts
  • Spearheaded the development of algorithmic trading by developing key functional components
  • Developed and maintained in-house python library suite for data analysis and modelling
• Quantitative Analyst, PowerMart, 2018 - 2020
  • Led the efforts to establish the end-to-end Data Science and Machine Learning pipeline
  • Contributed to the development and deployment of intraday trading algorithms
• Research Assistant & PhD Fellow, Niels Bohr International Academy, 2016 - 2018
  • Researched and published results in select probems in theoretical astrophysics. See PhD Research

Education

• PhD in Physics, University of Copenhagen, 2013- 2018
• MSc in Physics, Chennai Mathematical Institute, 2011 - 2013
• BTech in Electronics, University of Calicut, 2002 - 2006

Skills

• Programming: python (proficient in the core idioms, native libraries, data science and machine learning stack)
• Databases: SQL (T-SQL and MSSMS), NoSQL - Mongodb (pymongo and Compass)
• DevOps: jupyter notebooks, Git, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, CLT on Windows & MacOS, CI/CD
• Data Structures and Algorithms: binary trees, graphs, stacks, queues, backtracking, greedy and dynamic programming
• ML: Supervised Learning, Time-series Forecasting, Statistical Testing, Optimization, Bandits and Reinforcement Learning

Initiatives

• Co-chair, Sustainable Thinking Community, Ørsted, 2022.
• Contributor, KITP social media campaign, 2018.
• Volunteer, Danish Science Festival, 2016, 2017.
• Founder, Copenhagen Debaters Meetup Group, 2016-2017

Awards

• Graduate Fellowship, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2018
• Visiting Research Fellowship, Inter-University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013
• Junior Research Fellowship, Chennai Mathematical Institute, 2011

Talks

• Astro Seminar, University of California Santa Barbara, US, 2018
• Plasma Turbulence Workshop, Ecole de Physique Les Houches, France, 2015
• CPH-Lund Disk Meeting, Lund University, Sweden, 2015
• Protoplanetary Disks & Planet Formation Workshop, JAMSTEC, Japan, 2015
• Annual Danish Astronomy Meeting, Helsingør, Denmark, 2015

Teaching & Mentoring

• Guided junior team members on good data science and coding practices at Ørsted
• Teaching assistant in
  • Continuum Mechanics, University of Copenhagen, Winter 2015
  • Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Copenhagen, Fall 2014
  • Electromagnetism, University of Copenhagen, Spring 2014
• Mentored 2 B.Sc. and 1 M.Sc. student at the Niels Bohr Institute