abhi[dot]wadhwa[at] columbia [dot] edu

hallo, i’m abhi.

i’m an incoming applied math grad student @ columbia, trading options @ optiver this summer, and debating competitively in the british parliamentary circuit. i previously studied math and finance @ usc. i’m interested in the mathematics of decision-making: how people form beliefs, act under uncertainty, and behave in games — and particularly on designing systems around these dynamics.

some things i’ve done

• trading options @ optiver this summer
• benchmarked SGD/SVRG convergence @ a nasa jpl project on non-convex optimization
• ran tech diligence @ iron pillar fund on applied ai/dev-tooling/RLaaS
• built ML pipelines @ the world bank across 300k+ geospatial records

some things i’ve researched

• generalization bounds for deep learning on limit order book data
• LLM agent pipelines for NLP prediction market arbitrage
• nonlinear derivative pricing via backward stochastic differential equations
• computational applications of the spielman–teng conjecture to regularization

otherwise

• im a usamo qualifier and scored a distinction in the british mathematical olympiad
• i'm a british parliamentary debater — made outrounds at the usudc and naudc
• i like writing about random things. still deciding what to make public but check back soon.
• effective altruist with a focus on ai governance and safety