Arko Bhattacharya
Teaching Assistant at Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolArko Bhattacharya is a data scientist and AI engineer with a decade of experience translating complex data into automated, actionable insights across finance and research contexts. A Duke MS graduate with a quantitative finance focus, he has architected agentic LLM workflows, RAG-powered research chatbots, and scalable ETL and entity-mapping pipelines at BlackRock while also shipping compliant Model Context Protocol hosts for secure model access. At Fuqua he combines teaching and research—bringing real-world datasets and NLP-driven policy analysis into coursework and legislative topic modeling. Known for speeding engineering delivery (including a 5x reduction in pipeline build time) and improving data quality metrics, he blends academic rigor with production-grade engineering. Based in Durham, NC, he enjoys bridging quantitative research and AI tooling to turn alternative data into investable signals.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Interdisciplinary Data Science w/ Quantitative Finance Concentration, Master of Science - MS, Interdisciplinary Data Science w/ Quantitative Finance Concentration at Duke UniversityBTech - Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
r-package9
bioinformatics6
genomics6
database5
api5
scale4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
arko-bhattacharya/volatility-made-simple_vix-trading-strategies
Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
Paradigm4/revealgenomics-scripts
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 issue in 2 months
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