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General Information

Full Name Ananjan Nandi
Date of Birth 12th October 2001
Languages English, Bengali, Hindi

Education

  • 2019-2023
    B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
    • CGPA - 9.84/10.0
    • Department Rank - 4 out of 104

Experience

  • June - July 2022
    Member Technical Intern
    D.E. Shaw India Private Limited
    • Evaluated performance under high concurrent request load of uWSGI and ASGI based internally developed frameworks for API development.
    • Identified an issue related to Python’s Global Interpreter Lock causing significant slowdown in FastAPI’s handling of concurrent requests to synchronous methods, and implemented a workaround using Dask.
    • Optimized calculation of Value at Risk metrics from large files using Dask and Joblib for concurrency and shared_memory for eliminating read latency from disk, achieving more than 10X speedup over pure NumPy code.

Honors and Awards

  • 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.
    • Secured a score of 338/340 (170 - Quantitative, 168 - Verbal) in the Graduate Record Examinations organised by ETS .
  • 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

  • Teaching Assistant for NPTEL NOC - An Introduction to AI (starting Jan 2023)
  • Vice Captain of Table Tennis for Zanskar House, IITD (2021 - present)
  • 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)