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...
Something exciting
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"!
News!
I went to a finance seminar at Booth and saw Rajan (Ex-RBI Gov.), Diamond (Nobel Prize'23), Gene Fama (Nobel Prize'13), Lars Hansen(Nobel Prize'13) and Amir Sufi (a rockstar I can't describe!) in a job market talk. I was intimated on behalf of the presenter lol.
I am joining as a research professional at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business this fall; I'll be working with Scott Nelson in the finance research group at Booth.
I met Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia at LSE!! Talked to him for a while and got his autographed book Yay!!
I have been invited for a talk at the International Seminar for Social Choice (held online for the time being)
I am compiling a book of my thoughts and learnings about The Theory of Computation which I took from Professor Somenath Biswas at IITK. I think the first draft would be ready soon and I shall be launching it on the website itself.
I shall be attending the London School of Economics and Political Science, pursuing a Masters in Economics for the next 2 years.
I gave a presentation at the Games and Incentives Workshop organized at AAMAS: Proportionality in Committee Selection with Negative Feelings
I have been invited to review papers for GAIW'2021 (AAMAS workshop for Social Choice and Autonomous Agents)
Yay! Our journal article on Image Processing finally got selected! Follow it on research page!
Finally, the paper on "Proportionality in committee Selection with Negative Feelings" is ready. Follow it on publications page!