Arnhav Datar

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My name is Arnhav Datar, a first-year MSCS student at CMU. I primarily like to work in machine learning and theoretical computer science.  I pursued my Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science at IITM, where I graduated in the top 5 of my class and with the Prof. C. Sivaram Murthy Best BTP Award. For my senior-year thesis, I was guided by Prof. Arun Rajkumar and Prof. John Augustine and we worked on Byzantine Spectral Ranking from pairwise comparisons. 

30th May 2023:  Started my internship at Hudson River Trading! Time to develop some algos as intern!

13th February 2023:  Won the Citadel Mid-West Datathon!  

12th January 2023:  Two papers I co-authored with John Augustine and Nischith Shadagopan on Byzantine gathering got accepted at AAMAS 2023 and OPODIS 2022!

14th September 2022: Our work on Byzantine Spectral Ranking was accepted to NeurIPS 2022 with scores of 7(Accept)/7(Accept)/6(Weak Accept)/5(Borderline Accept)! The pre-print can be found here

21st June 2022: I won the Prof. C. Sivaram Murthy Best BTP Award - 2022 for my BTP guided by Dr. Arun Rajkumar and Dr. John Augustine!

13th June 2022: Got my F1 visa approved. Will pursue a Master of Science in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University!

23rd May 2022: Started my summer internship at Hakimo!

15th Aug 2021: Presented our work on detecting Alzheimer's disease from speech and text at BIOKDD 2021

2nd Aug 2021: Started working with Prof. John Augustine in distributed computing!

31st July 2021: Completed the Jane Street, Hong Kong internship! Was a lot of fun to do quantitative research.

14th May 2021: Presented my UGRC work on EffPPL. It was my first experience presenting my semester's research work to my faculty. 

10th Jan 2021: Started working with Prof. KC Sivaramakrishnan on Probabilistic Programming languages and Effect handlers.

30th Aug 2020: Had an amazing internship season. Got offers from Jane Street, DE Shaw, Google, and Adobe. Finally took up Jane Street's offer as I have always been curious about trading firms.

17th Mar 2020: Sent home because of the Covid-19. Something good came out of it. I started this News blog.