विद्वान् सर्वत्र पूज्यते

(A Learned Man Is Revered Everywhere)

Hi!

Hi! Since you have landed up on this page, I take the opportunity to intelligently deduce that you already know my name :P

I am currently working as a predoc for Prof. Scott Nelson at the finance research group at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. I (think!) my work is mostly centred around credit card markets in the US.

I studied CS as an undergrad but did a masters in Economics. 

If I had a paisa every time someone asked about switching from CS to Econ, I would have been a rupee billionaire by now. The answer to that question is mostly rebellion (a very costly one!) But actually, I realised very quickly that I couldn't do data structures and algorithms and got out as fast as possible. 

I like programming, but the first love of my life is Mathematics! What I like about math is that what seems unintelligible at the first sight turns effectively controllable with a clever structure. Further, Everything seems possible with Math!!! Apparently math earns you quite a lot of money, which is not bad either... 

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I am sort of a Sanskrit nerd, and always try to lexicographically analyse the names of all my Indian friends whose names have a Sanskritic root. 

 The lexicographic analysis of my name  RUTVIK :

 ऋत्विक =   ऋतु + इक् : an example of  sandhi vigraha (although I am too old now to remember what sort of sandhi vigraha this is :P) 

 ऋत्विक =  ऋतु + ठक् (इक्) प्रत्यय​ ; 

Grammatically speaking, the ठक्  suffix is used to signal belongingness; so the compound exposition ('samas' vigraha) of my name is: A person to whom the seasons belong; this is essentially a name given to Lord Shiva in one of the ancient texts and believe me I am trying hard enough to search where.

My small rant about Sanskrit word pronounciation: STOP adding redundant 'a' 's to Sanskrit words! Its never "Yoga" its "Yog"!

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