Kartick Rajen

I focus on making systems faster and more efficient to help facilitate computationally intensive tasks. Currently doing research in Taiwan, with a funded fellowship facilitated by the Ministry of Education. Selected to continue my work as a grad student at an Ivy League Research Institution (Cornell Tech).

PYTORCH/QUANT FINANCE/FPGA & VERILOG/LOW-LATENCY INFERENCE/PREDICTIVE MODELLING/
PYTORCH/QUANT FINANCE/FPGA & VERILOG/LOW-LATENCY INFERENCE/PREDICTIVE MODELLING/

Research

IEEE NMITCON-2025

Shopsense: Retail Analytics Using a Novel Joint Aware Temporal Encoder (JATE)

K. S. Rajen, J. Thomas, Alice K.

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IEEE ASIANCON-2025

Efficient ISL Gesture Recognition using Skeletal Representations & TSM

K. S. Rajen, T. K. K. Gupta, S. Hazra.

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IEEE GIET-2025

Secure Multi-Party Computation using HE and Simulated BBM92 QKD

K. S. Rajen, D. Mandal, Gayathri M.

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WORKING PAPER

Anomaly Detection in Latency-Critical Financial Systems

Taiwan TEEP Fellowship research targeting execution latency in HFT.

Experience

Research Fellow | Formosa Talent Program

Taiwan

Fully-funded hardware-aware AI models for HFT anomaly detection and latency-critical market operations.

Treasury Intern (Quantitative) | South Indian Bank

Mumbai

25% boost in risk-adjusted returns using GARCH-based volatility frameworks and DL ensembles.

Industrial Trainee | Intel Corporation

Chennai

Designed JATE neural network achieving sub-1ms processing for retail-specific action recognition.

Life

Harmonics & Code

Harmonics & Code

Deeply Passionate about physics and bio-inspired systems, utilizing an interdisciplinary, transferable approach to better understand the world and solve complex problems.

Industry Leadership

Industry Leadership

Regular participant at international conferences like the Global Fintech Fest, engaging with industry leaders and students to decode trends in machine learning and computer science.

Public Policy

Public Policy

Represented university in interactive sessions with State Ministers and led massive grassroots hygiene campaigns.

Mentorship

Mentorship

Served as a guitar instructor for school and college students, making sessions interactive and engaging.