Rishabh Raj / Engineer reaching for research

Machine learning, markets,
and the systems between.

I turn research ideas into instruments that survive contact with data, hardware, and the real world.

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Selected work

Three systems. One habit: make the idea executable.

AResearch

DWT · ANN · MAV

A paper made executable: condition monitoring from signal to silicon.

Nine-level Daubechies-44 feature extraction, ANN inference, fixed-point export, board-independent RTL, and MagNet motion amplification—held together by bit-accurate Python/Verilog verification.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • SystemVerilog
  • Icarus Verilog
9 → 32 → 64 → 128 → 64 → 32 → 1Inspect the research system
BQuant

Portfolio Intelligence

A research pipeline for turning market structure into reviewable decisions.

At NorthRock Capital, I built resilient ingestion across 250+ instruments, a local-LLM research workflow, and a constrained, monthly-rebalanced QMI portfolio model for a $1M initial allocation.

  • Python
  • Portfolio Optimization
  • LLM
  • Cloud Data
$450M+ AUM · 250+ instrumentsRead the documented work
CSystems

AgriProPlus

Agricultural intelligence engineered for the messy edges of production.

A serverless React/Node platform with bounded crop inference, searchable public schemes, protected administration, Firebase routing, accessible states, and a 96-tree model embedded directly in the API runtime.

  • React
  • Node.js
  • MongoDB
  • Firebase
  • Python
96-tree inference · bounded APIsOpen the system

A signal becomes useful when its assumptions become visible.

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How I work

Research judgment with an engineer’s intolerance for hand-waving.

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Paper → instrument

Research

Reproduce the claim, expose the assumptions, design the controls, and make the result falsifiable.

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Signal → decision

Quant

Build research pipelines where provenance, constraints, regime sensitivity, and reviewability are first-class.

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Model → reality

Systems

Carry ideas across APIs, cloud data, hardware boundaries, reliability checks, and human operations.

Working principle
“A model is not finished when it predicts. It is finished when its assumptions, failure modes, and route to reality are visible.”
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Trajectory

From physical systems to financial ones—and toward research.

I am drawn to problems where the signal is faint, the system is consequential, and the answer has to work outside a notebook.

My route is deliberately non-linear: electrical engineering, competitive programming, production operations, quantitative development, and financial engineering. The destination is AI research or quantitative research with real technical depth.

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  1. BTech Electrical & Electronics

    National Institute of Technology Delhi

    Studied the boundary between computation and physical systems; graduated with a 7.79/10 CGPA.

  2. Junior Quantitative Developer

    NorthRock Capital

    Built investment-research infrastructure, portfolio intelligence, and constrained quantitative models for a $450M+ AUM team.

  3. MSc Financial Engineering

    WorldQuant University

    Deepening the statistical, econometric, and mathematical foundation behind market research.

  4. Operations Officer

    HPCL · Jamshedpur

    Own high-availability LPG operations at 300 MT/day, automate recurring workflows, and lead multidisciplinary reliability work.

  5. OPENAI research · Quantitative research
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Competition evidence

Five independent records. Each opens its source.

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For research, systems, and difficult questions worth staying up for.

Let’s find the signal.