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General Information
Full Name | Ananjan Nandi |
Date of Birth | 12th October 2001 |
Languages | English, Bengali, Hindi |
Education
- 2023-2025
M.S. in Computer Science
Stanford University
- CGPA - 4.146/4.0
- 2019-2023
B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- CGPA - 9.877/10.0
- Department Rank - 4 out of 104
Experience
- 2024-2025
Graduate Research Assistant
Stanford Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group
- Working on projects related to useful structural inductive biases and safety in the context of large language models (supervised by Prof. Christopher D. Manning).
- 2024
ML Researcher Intern
Palantir Technologies
- Developed a model for converting natural language queries into executable queries in an internal query language, delivering over 20-pt performance gains over GPT-4.
- Built an enterprise Copilot that achieved 25-pt CodeBLEU improvements over GPT-4.
- 2023
AI Researcher Intern
KnowDis Data Science
- Executed and delivered six projects in the areas of natural language processing, recommender systems, and molecular AI, all ultimately deployed to production.
- 2022
Member Technical Intern
D.E. Shaw India Private Limited
- Achieved up to 4X reduction in response latency for firmwide web services, and sped up the calculation of Value-at-Risk from terabyte-scale profit and loss data by up to 10X.
Honors and Awards
- 2023
- Awarded the Outstanding Project Award, CS 330 (Deep Multi-Task and Meta Learning), Stanford.
- Received the Top 7% Merit Prize for Semesters 1, 2, 5, 7 and 8 from IIT Delhi with 10 CGPA.
- Secured a score of 338/340 (170 - Quantitative, 168 - Verbal) in the Graduate Record Examinations organised by ETS .
- 2022
- Awarded the Endowment Merit Scholarship for 2022-23 by the IIT Delhi Endowment Fund.
- Received the Top 7% Merit Prize for Semesters 1, 2 and 5 from IIT Delhi with 10 CGPA.
- 2021
- Secured All India Rank 144 in the Google Hash Code Qualifiers 2021 with team Breaking Code.
- 2019
- Secured All India Rank 73 in General category in JEE Advanced 2019 among 0.24 million candidates.
- Secured All India Rank 100 in General category in JEE Mains 2019 among 1.2 million candidates.
- Selected in the Indian team for the Asian Physics Olympiad 2019 among top 5 students.
- Selected for the Indian Team Selection Camp for the International Physics Olympiad 2019 among top 35 students.
- 2018
- Awarded the KVPY Fellowship with AIR 78 in SA stream and NTSE Scholarship by Government of India.
Extra-Curricular Activities
- Peer Reviewer for ACL Rolling Review, NeurIPS and ICLR
- Teaching Assistant for NPTEL NOC - An Introduction to AI (2023)
- Vice Captain of Table Tennis for Zanskar House, IITD (2021 - 2023)
- Academic Mentor for Introduction to Computer Science at IITD for the second semester, 2020-21
- International Rank 1 in the International English Olympiad (2017)
- Recipient of the 5th Scholarship of Excellence in English from the Science Olympiad Foundation (2015-16)
- 4th Rank in the National Level Pre-Finals of the Wiz National Spell Bee (2011-12)