Kapil K
Jr Quant Researcher at Glencore
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKapil K is a Jr Quant Researcher with nine years of experience blending data, systems, and software to solve optimization and modeling problems. Currently at Glencore and a PhD candidate in Systems (Optimization) at Cornell, he brings hands-on expertise in multidisciplinary design optimization, differentiable hydrodynamics in Julia, and high-performance computing. His background spans sports analytics at CMU and Winona State to data analysis in industry, giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and practical impact. He completed intensive HPC training at Argonne and has interned at national labs, demonstrating comfort with leadership-class compute and production research code. Colleagues can expect a practitioner who moves from hypothesis and statistical modeling to deployable computational solutions. An under-the-radar strength is his fluency across domains—mathematics, statistics, and systems engineering—enabling cross-disciplinary innovation.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Data Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Data Science at Winona State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Candidate Systems (Optimization), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Candidate Systems (Optimization) at Cornell UniversityStatistics and Data Science, Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University
tharu, Nepali, English
Github Skills (76)
solver8
bem8
hydrodynamics8
electrical-engineering8
mach7
python7
chemical-engineering7
development-environment7
fortran7
kmeans7
bioinformatics6
energy-system6
ide6
rstudio6
evaluation6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KapilKhanal/Sales_Impact
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
The impact of discount on sales for different categories of customers. Uses statistical techniques like CausalImpact, time series and KMeans.
Contributions:10 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
techniquesstatisticscustomersdiscountstatistical
KapilKhanal/Minnesota_lake_project
Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
Lake Quality and Taxation data interaction and prediction of median sale value
Contributions:9 PRs, 109 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
pythonsalerisk-analysisfinanceclimate-science
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