Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan
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Experience
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IPPR
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Public Policy Offices
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Research Fellow
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Sep 2023 - Present
London, England, United Kingdom AI and Economic Policy
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EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
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Switzerland
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Doctoral Researcher
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Sep 2021 - Aug 2023
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland Computer Science Doctoral Scholar with EDIC fellowship, worked on studying the dynamics and relationship between Wikipedia and Google, as well as Wikipedia structural analysis using Computational Social Science and Deep Learning approaches.
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University of Chicago
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Fellow
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Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States Working on "Thinking with Deep Learning": towards a theory and method of social science informed high dimensional representations.
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Research Assistant
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Oct 2018 - Sep 2020
Greater Chicago Area Working under the supervision of Dr. James Evans and Dr. Luis Bettencourt on cities and knowledge growth. I use high dimensional vector space neural embedding models to explore these questions.
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Santa Fe Institute
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United States
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Summer Research Student
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Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Santa Fe, New Mexico Area Selected to participate in the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School (2019). Took graduate and advanced level classes in Complex Systems (non-linear dynamics, chaos theory, game theory, network science, machine learning, large scale time-series analysis, ethics and philosophy), and participated in research projects with fellows students and post-docs. I am still actively working on research projects with my SFI collaborators.
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Inria
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France
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Engineer
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Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Lille Area, France Worked on building statistical models for Human Computer Interaction, with the MODAL, MJOLNIR and AVIZ Inria teams.
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Research Assistant
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Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Lille Area, France Worked as a Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Benjamin Guedj on Aggregation of Predicting Machines.
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The Alan Turing Institute
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United Kingdom
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Research Services
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300 - 400 Employee
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Visiting Student
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Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
London, United Kingdom Participated in the Data Study Group of December 2017. Worked with the British Home Office on statistical models for security.
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Google
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Google Summer of Code 2016
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May 2016 - Aug 2016
Worked with RaRe Technologies and Gensim to implement Dynamic Topic Models via Google Summer of Code 2016.
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Intuit
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Engineering Intern
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Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Bangaon Area, India Worked with the data engineering team to develop and integrate existing data workflows. Worked in python, shell scripting. Participated in the Intuit Hackathon and won 1st place (we built a chat-bot, which you can check out here - https://github.com/thegyro/qandabot).
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Zero Labs, Inc.
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Winter Intern
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Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Pune Area, India Generating Statistical Metadata of Audio Features.
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Zero Labs, Inc.
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Summer Research Intern
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May 2015 - Aug 2015
Pune Worked with the Acoustic Modelling Team on Sound Localisation and Separation using Statistical Learning Methods.
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Software Developer
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Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
Part of Software Development team for Academic Registration Center.
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Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR)
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United States
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International Affairs
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100 - 200 Employee
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Delegate
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Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Tokyo, Japan Delegate on the Corporate Leadership Panel.
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Education
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University of Chicago
Masters of Arts in Computational Social Science, Social Sciences -
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science -
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus
Minor Degree -, Philosophy, Economics, Politics