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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)