Selected in Wall Street Quant BootCamp ~ 2% AcceptanceIn Final Stage in IIMA Ventures AI Summer Residency Program
Selected in Wall Street Quant BootCamp ~ 2% AcceptanceIn Final Stage in IIMA Ventures AI Summer Residency Program
Selected in Wall Street Quant BootCamp ~ 2% AcceptanceIn Final Stage in IIMA Ventures AI Summer Residency Program
Selected in Wall Street Quant BootCamp ~ 2% AcceptanceIn Final Stage in IIMA Ventures AI Summer Residency Program
Selected in Wall Street Quant BootCamp ~ 2% AcceptanceIn Final Stage in IIMA Ventures AI Summer Residency Program
Selected in Wall Street Quant BootCamp ~ 2% AcceptanceIn Final Stage in IIMA Ventures AI Summer Residency Program
Selected in Wall Street Quant BootCamp ~ 2% AcceptanceIn Final Stage in IIMA Ventures AI Summer Residency Program
Selected in Wall Street Quant BootCamp ~ 2% AcceptanceIn Final Stage in IIMA Ventures AI Summer Residency Program
Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai Researcher

Tanmay Kumar

Shrivastava

Data & AI Researcher specializing in NLP, LLMs, and scalable machine learning systems

Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India
tanmayku@iitbhilai.ac.in

About Me

I am a highly motivated Data Science and AI enthusiast currently pursuing my B.Tech at IIT Bhilai. My journey is defined by a deep curiosity for how machine learning and quantitative research can solve real-world problems. With experience spanning from research publications in knowledge graphs to quantitative strategy development at WorldQuant, I thrive at the intersection of theory and practical application.

Aspirations

Building the next generation of intelligent systems that can reason through complex semantic structures and financial markets.

Personal Interests

Beyond tech, I am an avid writer (published poet), musician, and sportsman who values the scenic beauty of nature.

Professional Journey

Work Experience

Research Associate

Jan 2026 - Apr 2026 (Ongoing)

PredictRAM - Params Data Provider Pvt Ltd

Conducting equity and market research, analyzing financial data, and supporting investment insights under regulatory frameworks.

TITANIUM trading strategies
Technical and fundamental analysis
Event-based trading analytics

Backend Developer Intern

Oct 2025 - Dec 2025

MegaForte Ltd. Singapore

Developed Point-Based Automated Essay Scoring Systems aligned with National Examination Standards.

Marking and feedback automation
National standards alignment

Quantitative Research Consultant

June 2025 - Present

WorldQuant LLC

Developing trading strategies and optimizing alpha signals on the WorldQuant BRAIN platform.

Quantitative methods application
Alpha signal optimization
Global research network collaboration

India Space Tech Intern

June 15 – July 31, 2025

India Space Lab (Supported by ISRO, NASA, JAXA, UN-GGIM)

Developed IoT project 'ESP32 Joke Machine for Programmers' integrating ESP32 microcontroller, TFT display, RESTful APIs, and Arduino IDE/Wokwi simulator.

IoT development (ESP32)
RESTful APIs & HTTPS
JSON parsing
Real-time UI & Edge computing

STEM Education Mentor - Maths & JEE

June 2024

SPSTI (NGO, Haryana)

Guided IX-X students in preparation for JEE and national-level exams, mentoring them in mathematics and problem-solving.

Mentoring for JEE & National Exams
Ceremony Anchoring
Report Presentation to DM
Memento for Outstanding Contributions

Business Analyst Training (Internship)

Oct - Nov 2023

Finlatics Enabling Insights, Fincrux Technologies LLP

Conducted data analysis on 1M+ data points using MS Excel and Power BI to identify trends for improved business strategies and product positioning.

Data analysis on 1M+ data points
MS Excel & Power BI
Score: 83.33%
Letter of Recommendation
Certificate of Qualification

Externships

NASCAR NY Racing Sponsorship ROI Extern

Apr 2026 - Ongoing

NASCAR NY Racing (via Extern)

Developing a multi-factor Sponsorship ROI scoring model by integrating large datasets from race performance, social media, and brand visibility. Performing data preprocessing and feature engineering using Python (Pandas, NumPy) to translate analytical findings into strategic business recommendations.

Sponsorship ROI Modeling
Python (Pandas, NumPy)
EDA (Matplotlib, Seaborn)
Web Scraping (BeautifulSoup)
Sports Marketing Analytics
Data Acquisition & Automation

Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis Extern

Jan 2026 - Apr 2026

Mangusta Capital (via Extern)

Conducted deep-dive research on startups, analyzing technologies, market trends, and competition. Created due diligence summaries and synthesis reports to support investment decisions in Venture Capital and AI.

Venture Capital
AI Startup Research
Investment Memo
Market Analysis
Vertical AI
AI-Driven Insights

Interactive Projects Gallery

A showcase of my recent research publications, technical projects, and hackathon wins.

Disentangling Style & Semantics: Knowledge Graph-Guided Activation Steering
Research
Nov 2025
Disentangling Style & Semantics: Knowledge Graph-Guided Activation Steering

Implemented contrastive activation steering and activation-space intervention during inference. Accepted for PAKDD Special Track on LLMs for Data Science.

Python
LLaMA-2-7B
HuggingFace Transformers
currently private
Intelligent Helper in Writing Problems
NLP
Nov 2024
Intelligent Helper in Writing Problems

Curated homework problem recommendation system using a Rewriter–Retriever–Reranker NLP pipeline. Ranked relevant practice problems from user queries, using GPT-2, T5 and FLAN-T5 with Hugging Face Transformers in Python.

Python
GPT-2
T5
Advanced American Sign Language Recognition using CNN
CNN
Nov 2024
Advanced American Sign Language Recognition using CNN

Developed a CNN model to classify 36 ASL gestures (A–Z, 0–9) with 94% accuracy, improving accessibility for the deaf community. Designed a 3-block Sequential CNN with ReLU activation, dropout regularization and Adam optimizer with categorical cross-entropy loss. Used EarlyStopping and ReduceLROnPlateau to balance class performance; achieved macro-averaged F1-score of 95%.

Python
TensorFlow
Keras
Intelligent Highway Watch (For Night-time Conditions)
Computer Vision / ML
Sep 2024
Intelligent Highway Watch (For Night-time Conditions)

Built an automated traffic violation detection system for night-time conditions using computer vision and ML. Detected stop-line violations and identified vehicles through license plate recognition using MySQL Connector, PIL, OpenCV and pytesseract.

Python
SQL
OpenCV
33GB Chest X-Ray Disease Prediction
Medical AI / Deep Learning
Mar 2024
33GB Chest X-Ray Disease Prediction

Achieved ≥95% accuracy on chest X-ray disease dataset for differentiating between corona and pneumonia of 84,818 images within 3 hours and <5ms inference latency using PySpark. Implemented separate validation and test sets; deployed the model via GitHub.

TensorFlow
Keras
PySpark
GST Analytics Hackathon: Detection of Irregular Transactions
Hackathon
Oct 2024
GST Analytics Hackathon: Detection of Irregular Transactions

Improved detection of irregular GST transactions using XGBoost on highly imbalanced data. Organized by GST Gov. of India.

XGBoost
SMOTE
PCA
veri-TA-serum: Deception Mirror AI
Hackathon (DevPost)
Oct 2024
veri-TA-serum: Deception Mirror AI

AI system to detect and challenge self-deception using linear probes, symbolic sanity checks, and debate agents. Blended AI approach using gpt-oss-120b and gemini-2.5-flash for deception risk scoring and counter-narratives.

Genkit.ai
Next.js
shadcn/ui
Data Visualization on Repetition of Everyday Non-Stop News
Data Visualization / NLP
Nov 2023
Data Visualization on Repetition of Everyday Non-Stop News

Performed EDA and visualization on 1450 news transcripts from YouTube (Euro News) and other sources to study dynamics of repeated news. Used Hugging Face libraries for sentiment analysis, topic modeling and text summarization; visualized results with charts and graphs.

Python
Seaborn
Matplotlib

Skills Showcase

A technical stack focused on Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and scalable backend solutions.

Programming

Python (Advanced)
C (Basic)
Prompt Engineering
SQL
Expertise LevelCore

AI & Machine Learning

Machine Learning
OpenCV
Natural Language Processing
Hugging Face Transformers
Reinforcement Learning
Deep Learning
Expertise LevelAdvanced

Data Tools

MS Excel
Power BI
PySpark
FAISS
NetworkX
Neo4j
Expertise LevelProficient

Frameworks

WorldQuant BRAIN
Next.js
RESTful APIs
Arduino IDE
LaTeX
IoT (ESP32)
Expertise LevelProficient

Honors & Achievements

A track record of excellence in competitive examinations, hackathons, and academic pursuits.

Summit
AI Impact Summit 2026

Invitee in the AI Impact Summit held at Delhi from 16th Feb to 21st Feb 2026, organized and appointed by Govt. of India.

Academic
JEE Advanced 2022

Secured All India Rank 4936 in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2022, clearing what is widely recognized as the world's second toughest examination.

Hackathon
Promptathon’24

Secured 2nd position at Promptathon’24 conducted by Sugarcane AI, for building a conversational AI model responding to academic inquiries (2024).

Competitive
KIMO Tech-Competition

Secured 5th position in KIMO Tech-Competition held online, by scoring 107/120 (Feb 2024).

Finance
International Quant Championship 2025

Achieved Global Rank 1976 in Stage 1 and Global Rank 2310 in Stage 2 at International Quant Championship 2025 by WorldQuant, ranking in the top 20% of teams globally (Mar–May 2025).

Business
National Finalist

Participated and advanced as National Finalist in many Case Study Competitions at IIM Jammu, IIM Raipur, XLRI, VNIT Nagpur, SIBM Pune.

Institutional
P. K. Jain Memorial Award

Recipient of the P. K. Jain Memorial Award, presented by the Prof. (Dr.) Rajiv Prakash, Director of IIT Bhilai for outstanding academic performance and significant contributions to the institute’s growth.

Education

2022 - Present

B.Tech. Data Science & AI

IIT Bhilai

2020 - 2022

Senior Secondary

DPS Mathura Road

2020

Secondary School

DPS Indirapuram

Profolio Canvas

A minimalist professional portfolio showcasing data science and AI research.

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