Maya Burhanpurkar
Private Equity Associate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaya Burhanpurkar is a New York-based private equity professional with 9 years of experience bridging quantitative research and value-driven investing. She is currently a Private Equity Associate at Blackstone, following prior roles as an Investment Analyst at The D. E. Shaw Group and as a Summer PE Associate there and at Blackstone. She combines a physics background (BA, Harvard, summa cum laude) with economics (MPhil, University of Oxford) and is a Roberts Family Technology and Innovation Fellow at Harvard Business School. Her Harvard research encompassed fair, multicalibrated ML algorithms for cosmology parameter inference and ML for superconductor candidate identification, reflecting a hands-on integration of ML with scientific inquiry. She has also explored early-stage and strategic investing as a Venture Partner at Contrary and gained experience across the broader investment ecosystem with Bridgewater and Jane Street's Women in STEM. Based in New York, she leverages rigorous quantitative methods and cross-disciplinary training to identify value in complex assets and transformative technologies.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MPhil Economics, MPhil Economics at University of OxfordBA Physics , BA Physics at Harvard UniversityRoberts Family Technology and Innovation Fellow, Roberts Family Technology and Innovation Fellow at Harvard Business School
Github Skills (24)
orbital-mechanics8
radio-astronomy7
scalar7
keras6
wavelet6
removal6
astronomy6
deep-learning5
python5
prng5
pytorch5
machine-learning4
scikit-learn4
tensorflow4
gpu3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mburhanpurkar/fast_xorshift_plus
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 5 months
vectorizedprngtimesscalarfaster
mburhanpurkar/web_viewer
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:84 pushes, 20 branches in 7 months
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