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Raunak Sood

I work on machine learning and quantitative research. Right now I'm doing a master's in Computer Science at USC and building ML systems at an investment firm.

The three projects below are the ones I'd want to talk about.

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Projects

Quantitative research · Python

Equity factor research

A stock-picking model, rebuilt from scratch after I found six bugs that had made the original results wrong.

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AI research · USC · 5 authors

Resampled Thought Trees

When an AI reasons step by step, which steps actually matter? We froze it mid-thought and re-ran the search 22,000 times to find out.

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Product · TypeScript, iOS

Melange

An app for photographers, models and stylists to find each other. Shipped on iPhone and the web.

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Experience

  • Innovius Capital
    Machine Learning Intern
    2026 —
  • QIAGEN, Redwood City
    Machine Learning Intern
    2025
  • QIAGEN, Düsseldorf
    Data Science & Treasury
    2024
  • Precanto
    Data Science & Product
    2023
  • York University, Toronto
    Data Science
    2023

Education

  • University of Southern California
    M.S. Computer Science · GPA 3.85
    2025 — 27
  • Santa Clara University
    B.S. Economics · Division I tennis
    2020 — 24

Tools

Python, PyTorch, LightGBM, scikit-learn, pandas, SQL, R
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Postgres, Docker, AWS