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Devanshi

Engineer working where the product meets the customer. Machine learning and quantitative research by training, shipping end to end into live environments by habit.

selected work

Case studies

Three pieces of work, each one a vague ask turned into something that shipped.

Quantitative Research Intern · Graviton Research Capital · Jul to Sep 2025

A production liquidation engine for a live trading floor

Conducted systematic long-short equity research across APAC markets, developing alpha signals with cross-sectional factor models. Alongside the research, I built and deployed a production end-of-day liquidation engine automating the execution of 15,000+ positions daily.

Owned end to end in a live trading environment, improving execution reliability and reducing operational risk. Details are confidential, and I am happy to talk through the design decisions in an interview.

live-production execution-systems ml end-to-end
Research Intern · United States Department of Agriculture · Aug 2024 to May 2025

Machine learning on signals nobody had automated before

Mosquito feeding behavior is recorded as electrical waveforms, and labelling them by hand was the bottleneck for an entire research program. I modeled the time series and automated the waveform labelling process across five different ML strategies, going deep on an unfamiliar, high-stakes biological domain.

Published as peer-reviewed, NSF grant backed research in Scientific Reports, the first machine learning approach applied to waveforms from blood-feeding insects, the kind that spread disease.

time-series-ml unfamiliar-domain peer-reviewed
Co-founder · Claremont Accelerator · Dec 2023 to Jan 2025

Turning non-technical founders' asks into fundable plans

Co-founded the first startup accelerator at the Claremont Colleges. The daily work was requirements extraction: sitting with student founders who knew what they wanted but not what to build, and turning that into plans investors would fund.

Supported 18 startups, helped raise over $2.6M in capital, and built a network of 41 mentors and VCs with an alumni mentorship pipeline.

stakeholder-translation zero-to-one still-running
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Experience

Everything else, briefly.

Columbia AI4VS LabResearch Assistant · Dec 2025 to Jun 2026

Computer-vision assistive systems for low-vision users under Professor Kaveri Thakoor, plus ophthalmic support tools helping clinicians improve glaucoma and eye cancer diagnosis accuracy.

Chicago GlobalQuantitative Research Intern · May to Jul 2025

Built factor-based trading data pipelines processing 2TB of input daily, cutting insight turnaround time by 30%, and collaborated on an algorithmic trading platform integrating strategy optimization and multi-market execution.

LottieFilesProduct Management Intern · Aug to Oct 2024

Mathematical solutions for converting raster animations to the Lottie format, using Bezier-curve representations with OpenCV to interpolate additional frames per second.

Ernst & YoungProduct Management Intern · May to Aug 2024

Engineered an Azure-based generative AI meeting-analysis tool that cut manual effort for 3 clients by about 30 minutes per meeting; diagnosed defects and tracked issues through JIRA.

Oceanview Capital PartnersPrivate Equity Intern · Jul to Aug 2023

Evaluated 20+ companies across tiers and operating models, modeled growth trajectories with linear regressions, and contributed to a 15% rise in client engagement.

AiDEN AutomotivesProduct Management Intern · May to Jul 2023

Pitched integrated services like accelerometer triggers with roadside assistance, reducing vehicular accident probability by 2.5%.

CMC Mathematical SciencesResearch Assistant · May to Jul 2022

Monte Carlo stochastic simulations for estimating distribution properties, presented as a research paper at conference.

CERNResearch Intern · Aug to Oct 2020

Investigated 23 space technologies and applications alongside senior scientists, with research presented on the CERN website.

Columbia Innovation & Design LabTeaching Assistant · Dec 2025 to May 2026

Selected to support a 40-student cohort under Professor Gary Zamchick, hosting office hours and teaching prototyping methods for user-centered solutions.

NxtEquityCo-founder · Feb 2022 to Jan 2024

Built a sentiment analysis and data extraction tool on financial data using BERT and GPT-3. Shut down for lack of traction, which taught me more than most things that worked.

side quests

Projects & papers

Builds, papers, and press, with links.

background

Education

Columbia University, M.S. Computer Science (Machine Learning Track)

Sep 2025 to May 2026 · GPA 3.83/4.00

1st place, Lion's Roar Negotiation Competition. 1st place, MacGyver Engineering Challenge.

Claremont McKenna College, B.A. Mathematics (Honors) & Harvey Mudd College, B.S. Computer Science

Aug 2021 to May 2025 · GPA 3.95/4.00 · honors theses in both

Phi Beta Kappa, McKenna Award ($60K merit scholarship), Magna Cum Laude, Dean's List. Math thesis here. Fellowships: Girls Who Invest, Grace Hopper Scholar, MCW Young Leader, Apollo Fellow, Apple WiSTEM Mentee, RLCIE Fellow.

honors, briefly
macgyver-challenge-1st lions-roar-negotiation-1st phi-beta-kappa math-art-competition-1st-x2 hmc-cs-design-prize intuit-idea-jam-3rd uk-math-challenge-gold nyt-stem-finalist