Raghav Somani

I am a quantitative finance researcher. Most recently, I was at D. E. Shaw & Co., New York City (2024–26). Right now, I’m serving my non-compete period.

Before working in quantitative finance, I obtained my Ph.D. and M.S. from the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Sewoong Oh. My research focused on large scale machine learning optimization algorithms and analyzing general laws and properties that emerge at scale.

Before starting my graduate school, I spent two years as a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research Lab - India, working with Dr. Praneeth Netrapalli and Dr. Prateek Jain. Before this fellowship, I earned my B. Tech. in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Guwahati in 2017.

In my spare time, I enjoy learning general mathematics, modern finance and economics.

I can be reached at <first_name><second_name><2000-5>[at]gmail[dot]com.