Maya Burhanpurkar
Private Equity Associate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaya Burhanpurkar is a Private Equity Associate at Blackstone with a decade of experience at the intersection of quantitative research and investment management. Her background blends rigorous academic training in physics (Harvard) and economics (Oxford MPhil) with hands-on roles at top firms including D. E. Shaw, Bridgewater, and Georgian, where she applied machine learning to real-world problems. She has a track record of translating advanced ML research—ranging from fair multicalibration to CNN-based cosmological inference—into investment and product insights. Comfortable moving between technical research labs and high-stakes deal rooms, Maya brings a rare combination of scientific rigor, quantitative intuition, and venture experience. A detail that sets her apart is sustained involvement in both academic research groups and leading quantitative investment shops, enabling her to evaluate opportunities through both theoretical and market lenses.
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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