Howdy!I'mAbhi.

This summer I’m trading options at Optiver in Chicago. Before that I sourced deals for a $500MM fund at Iron Pillar in Dubai, built census models at the World Bank that actually worked 30% better, and somehow placed first out of 40 teams at RBC. I also got invited to Citadel Securities’ trading invitational, which was mostly me sweating through simulations in NYC.

I do research on things nobody asks me about at parties: random matrix theory, stochastic control, why people refuse vaccines even when it’s free. I’ve worked with Prof. Zhou on the Spielman-Teng Conjecture, Prof. Ramcharan on optimization for policy, and Prof. Iyer at Berkeley on game-theoretic models of public health. I also build things — Nash equilibrium solvers, poker bots, a limit order book simulator, an AlphaZero engine, and too many mechanism design toys to list here.

I debate competitively — USUDC quarterfinals, Berkeley IV semis, Team UAE at Worlds. I qualified for the USAMO, the AIME twice, and got distinction in the British Math Olympiad, which sounds impressive until you learn how many people take it.

Right now I’m doing graduate coursework in measure theory, probability, stochastic RL, and ML alongside my undergrad on a Dean’s Scholarship. I care a lot about public goods, institutional trust, and why some countries figure it out and others don’t. I also like electronic music.