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Can you hear the shape of a CFMM? (part 3)
Talks about Decentralized Finance, Automated Market Maker and Trading
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Tarun Chitra
Partner at Robot Ventures
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Tarun Chitra is the Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, a company specializing in data analysis and mathematical modeling. With a background in quantitative research and software development, he has invested in various startups in sectors like Security, AI, and FinTech, including companies like Fantom Foundation and Zama.
Highlights of Tarun Chitra's career include founding Gauntlet and partnering with Robot Ventures, demonstrating expertise in quantitative research and software development while investing in innovative startups in sectors like Security and AI.
Work Experience
Founder, CEO
2018 - Current
Building a simulation platform for crypto networks to help developers understand how decisions about security, governance, and consensus mechanisms are likely to affect network activity and asset value Backers include Paradigm, Coinbase, Distributed Global, Dragonfly, First Round, IA, and Polychain
Solving DeFi's most complex economic problems to drive adoption and understanding of the financial systems of the future
Raised $44,788,552.00 from Ribbit Capital, Polychain and Paradigm.
Partner
2020
Quantitative Research and Development
2016 - 2018
High-frequency trading
Scientific Associate and Programmer
2011 - 2016
Student Research (Mathematics and Physics)
2009 - 2011
Derived the energy spectrum and eigenfunctions for a Gauge/Gravity Duality model of charged black holes. These models help ease computations related to the certain models of high-temperature superconductors and other applications dependent on critical phase transitions. In the process, I found a new explicit example of a Generalized Sasaki-Einstein Metric.
Math Support Center Tutor
2007 - 2011
Undergraduate Researcher, Software Development
2010 - 2010
I developed software to run multiple particle tracking simulations for the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) using Python and Fortran
Student Research Summer
2010 - 2010
Designed and implemented a testing framework in Python to provide quality assurance on multiple integration schemes used in Cornell's particle tracking simulation software.
Clinical Development Intern, Summer 2009
2009 - 2009
The goal of this internship was to perform useful translational work that spanned both the bioinformatics and research-oriented areas of AstraZeneca's Wilmington R&D as well as the Clinical Development area. Projects Completed include: - Developing a drug-database search engine that worked with eRoom (coding done in ASP, VBA and occasionally Scala) - Evaluating psychological trials using mathematical techniques (mainly the use of finite probability measures on somewhat ordered clinical psychology data)
Early Development, Summer (2008) Intern
2008 - 2008
This job consisted of both lab and computational work at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in Wilmington, Delaware. I worked on testing novel lipid drug-delivery systems, in particular self-microemulsifying drug delivery systems (SMEDDS). The work completed includes: - Testing of various SMEDDS compounds as vehicles for emerging psychology research compounds