Tarun Chitra

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

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