Education

Brown University (2022 – 2023)

MS, Applied Mathematics
Providence, RI
GPA: 4.00

Brown University (2019 – 2023)

BS, Mathematics
Providence, RI
Magna Cum Laude

San Ramon Valley High School (2015 – 2019)

High School Diploma
Danville, CA
GPA: 4.58

Work Experience

Citigroup Global Markets (May 2023 – Present)

Quantitative Analyst
New York, NY

  • Worked at Citi’s Agency MBS Passthrough Trading Desk, under Michal Danziger and Gaurav Nanda
  • Trading in Ginnie Mae specified mortgage pools and Ginnie Mae / Fannie Mae TBAs
  • Putting out monthly market commentary for clients about MBS markets, analyzing market data and testing hypotheses about MBS bond performance using Python and SQL

Citigroup Global Markets (June 2022 – August 2022)

Summer Quantitative Analyst
New York, NY

  • Worked at Citi’s FX Quantitative Investment Strategies desk in the Global Markets division of Citi
  • Wrote publication on FX momentum trading to be published to Citi’s client website, CitiVelocity
  • Assisted desk directors with client requests concerning Citi proprietary FX data through data analysis and scripting

IDinsight (April 2022 – August 2022)

Data Science Intern
New Delhi, India (Remote)

  • Coded side projects to assist the data science arm of IDinsight, a nonprofit development consulting firm
  • Application of methods from statistics, machine learning, and probability to devise robust NLP models
  • Remotely worked under the mentorship of Sid Ravinatula and Viktor Wang of IDinsight

University of Minnesota (June 2021 – August 2021)

Research Intern
Minneapolis, MN

  • Researched pattern formation and nonlinear waves using partial differential equations (PDEs) and dynamical systems
  • Coded numerical simulations and conjectured/proved theorems about PDE models found in ecological sciences
  • Worked with Prof. Arjen Doelman of Leiden University and Prof. Paul Carter of UC Irvine, and funded through the NSF

Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE) (October 2020 – December 2021)

Director of Finance and Program Coordinator
Providence, RI

  • Managed organization finances of $20,000, writing internal and external grant applications, and fundraising
  • Managed group of 40 tutors/students and working with various refugee organizations within Providence
  • Assisted in securing $25,000 COVID relief grant from Rhode Island Department of Health to help refugee populations

Mathematics Sin Fronteras (February 2021 – December 2021)

Tech Manager
Providence, RI

  • Managing technology for MSF, a bilingual mathematics outreach program run in both Spanish and English
  • Website design and maintenance (in English and Spanish) using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Brown University (January 2020 – August 2021)

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Providence, RI

  • Presenting concepts in advanced math subjects such as linear algebra, differential equations, metric spaces, measure theory, and real analysis to groups of 15+ undergraduate students during weekly office hours
  • Working with undergraduate students on an individual basis during weekly office hours and managing class technology

Technical Skills

Python

MATLAB

Javascript

Java

C/C++

Maple

SQL

HTML/CSS

MS Office Suite

IBM CPLEX

Linux

LaTeX

Google Tools

Languages

English

Spanish (Español)

Hindi (हिन्दी)

Urdu (اردو)

Farsi (فارسی)

Tajik (тоҷикӣ)

Publications

P Carter, A Doelman, K Lilly, E Obermayer, and S Rao.
Criteria for the (in)stability of planar interfaces in singularly perturbed 2-component reaction-diffusion equations.
Physica D (2022) and arXiv (2022). https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05128

Coursework

Undergraduate Coursework

  • APMA 1360 Applied Dynamical Systems
  • APMA 1970 Random Graph Theory (Independent Study)
  • MATH 1130 Real Analysis and Measure Theory
  • MATH 1140 Manifold Calculus and Harmonic Analysis
  • MATH 1260 Complex Analysis
  • CSCI 0150 Object Oriented Programming
  • CSCI 0160 Data Structures and Algorithms
  • CSCI 1420 Machine Learning
  • CSCI 1470 Deep Learning
  • CSCI 1951A Data Science

Graduate Coursework

  • APMA 2110 Real Analysis and Measure Theory
  • APMA 2120 Functional Analysis
  • APMA 2610 Recent Applications of Probability and Statistics
  • APMA 2630 Probability I
  • APMA 2640 Probability II
  • APMA 2550 Numerical Solutions to PDEs I
  • APMA 2812F Scaling Limits and Interacting Particle Systems
  • MATH 2410 Algebraic Topology I
  • MATH 2510 Algebra I
  • PHP 2520 Statistical Inference I
  • PHP 2580 Statistical Inference II
  • PHP 2530 Bayesian Statistics
  • CSCI 2951O Prescriptive Analytics