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Krishna Poddar

The world belongs to the curious | Building The Unicorn Labs | CS & ORIE @ Cornell | Rapido, Google, Virtu Financial, Flexport, Nutanix

Mumbai

4+ years of work experience

The Unicorn Labs
Aug 20251 yr 3 mosPresent

Remote

Collection of AI tools I built for personal use, which have added value for 1500+ people Making High School students more curious about the world and enabling critical and creative thinking https://theunicornlabs.com/ https://lab.theunicornlabs.com/
Rapido
Apr 20251 yr 7 mosPresent

Causal Inference and Data Science at India's Largest Ride Sharing Platform
Flexport
Mar 20238 mosOct 2023

Seattle, Washington, United States

0 -> 1 projects
Virtu Financial
Aug 20225 mosDec 2022

New York, NY

Reinforcement Learning for FX portfolios
Cornell University College of Engineering
Aug 20202 yrs 5 mosDec 2022

New York City Metropolitan Area

May ‘22 - Dec ‘22 Graduate Teaching Assistant for “Quantitative Trading Strategies” with Professor Sasha Stoikov Jan ‘22 - May’22 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Engineering Stochastic Processes with Professor Jim Dai Jan ‘20 - Jan ‘22 Teaching Assistant for Practical Tools for Operations Research, Machine Learning & Data Science Professor Peter Frazier (Spring 2021). Professor Madeleine Udell (Spring 2020). Aug ‘20 - Dec ‘20 Teaching Assistant for Statistics and Probability for Engineers with Professor Jamol Pender (Fall 2020)

Education

Cornell University

Master of Engineering - MEng Financial Engineering, Operations Research and Information Engineering

Cornell University

20211 yr2022
Cornell University

Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science + Operations Research and Information Engineering (double major)

Cornell University

20183 yrs2021

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Headline

The world belongs to the curious | Building The Unicorn Labs | CS & ORIE @ Cornell | Rapido, Google, Virtu Financial, Flexport, Nutanix

About

Building something cool 😎

Location

Mumbai

Work experience

Founder at The Unicorn Labs, Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Remote, Collection of AI tools I built for personal use, which have added value for 1500+ people Making High School students more curious about the world and enabling critical and creative thinking https://theunicornlabs.com/ https://lab.theunicornlabs.com/

Data Scientist at Rapido, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Causal Inference and Data Science at India's Largest Ride Sharing Platform

Software Engineer at Flexport, Mar 2023 - Oct 2023 · 8 mos, Seattle, Washington, United States, 0 -> 1 projects

Quantitative Research Analyst at Virtu Financial, Aug 2022 - Dec 2022 · 5 mos, New York, NY, Reinforcement Learning for FX portfolios

Graduate Teaching Assistant at Cornell University College of Engineering, Aug 2020 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos, New York City Metropolitan Area, May ‘22 - Dec ‘22 Graduate Teaching Assistant for “Quantitative Trading Strategies” with Professor Sasha Stoikov Jan ‘22 - May’22 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Engineering Stochastic Processes with Professor Jim Dai Jan ‘20 - Jan ‘22 Teaching Assistant for Practical Tools for Operations Research, Machine Learning & Data Science Professor Peter Frazier (Spring 2021). Professor Madeleine Udell (Spring 2020). Aug ‘20 - Dec ‘20 Teaching Assistant for Statistics and Probability for Engineers with Professor Jamol Pender (Fall 2020)

Education

Master of Engineering - MEng Financial Engineering, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science + Operations Research and Information Engineering (double major), Cornell University

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