Arka Bhattacharya

                                                                       

Hello, I am Arka Bhattacharya and in another life, I was a graduate student at Columbia University, New York  studying mathematics and computer science (I took my Masters and joined the financial services industry since then). I have been working in the Investment Banking and Hedge Fund industry for the past 7+ years, spanning geographies (specifically the US and India) and roles, whereby I have consulted and worked for funds in New York and Boston and have worked for Citigroup, US in their Operational and Credit Risk divisions. Recently I had been an Investment Strategist and a Fund Manager at Anived Capital LLC and another fund in India. 

I have passed the degree of Bachelor in Technology (B.Tech) in the field of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy , India in 2013 and am the recipient of the ACM Student Scholarship Award at the ACM Turing Centenary Celebration 2012 held at San Francisco.         

( photos here )

In my student days, I was interested in almost all aspects of theoretical computer science and mathematics but specifically they were complexity theory and approximation algorithms with peripheral interests in quantum computation and number theory (hopefully I will be a graduate student again in the near or far future).                                              

My other major interests include mountaineering, Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism and all other adventure sports, travelling, music and reading magazines. I have been to many places in the Himalayas, Nilgiris and  the Garo-Khasi Hills and am a great lover of food and have tasted many cuisines. I used to be an active player of football and am interested in sports like cricket, lawn tennis and athletics. There are a lot of magazines which I always have a look on , like ACM XRDS, IEEE Spectrum, India Today, Outlook and Newsweek.

I did my secondary and higher-secondary schooling from DAV Model School, Durgapur, India, affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE).

( click here to see my past blog during student days )

( click here to see my past photography profile ) 

                                   

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