Robi Bhattacharjee

Education

University of California, San Diego

PhD in Computer Science

Advised by Kamalika Chaudhuri and Sanjoy Dasgupta.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science, General Mathematics

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Tübingen — Tübingen, Germany

Supervised by Ulrike von Luxburg. Conducting research in theoretical machine learning.

PhD Student, Graduate Research Assistant

UC San Diego — San Diego, CA

Conducted research in adversarial robustness, clustering, and trustworthy machine learning under Kamalika Chaudhuri and Sanjoy Dasgupta.

Assistant Trader

Five Rings Capital — New York, NY

Developed automated trading strategies and coded simulations on historical market data.

Research Intern

Jane Street Capital — New York, NY

Worked on trading strategies and statistical tools for improving them.

Software Engineering Intern

Google — Mountain View, CA

Studied the effect of over- and under-sampling to resolve class imbalance for fraud detection.

Trading/Research Intern

Jane Street Capital — New York, NY

Worked on trading strategies and participated in mock trading exercises.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Seminar “Explainable Machine Learning”

University of Tübingen

Co-led by Ulrike von Luxburg, Gunnar Konig, Sebastian Bordt, and Robi Bhattacharjee. Delivered lectures (e.g. on LIME/SHAP), guided student presentations, and organized the seminar schedule.

Teaching Assistant, CSE 251B (Graduate Machine Learning)

UC San Diego

Led discussion sections, held office hours, graded assignments and exams.

Teaching Assistant, CSE 251B (Graduate Machine Learning)

UC San Diego

Led discussion sections, held office hours, graded assignments and exams.

Supervision

Clara Groethans

Master’s Student, University of Tübingen

Thesis: Understanding the Interplay between Model Complexity and Explanation Quality: Measuring Local Fidelity.

Harald Kugler

Master’s Student, University of Tübingen

Thesis: Towards a Reliable and Scalable Data-Copying Detection Algorithm Using Random Projections.

Publications

Preprints / In Submission

Talks

Honors and Awards

Service