Ayush Kanodiamachine learning, economics, and the occasional espresso
Iām building an economic world model: an AI system that reads the public record and maintains a live, company-level model of the economy.
During my PhD at Stanford University, I was advised by the awesome Susan Athey and co-advised by Emma Brunskill, working at the intersection of Machine Learning and Economics. I also earned an MA in Economics from Stanford. Before that, I completed a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay, India.
Experience
- Co-Founder, stealth startupNow economic world modelsBefore AI research product used by hedge fund analysts and PMs: a web app and Proread, a local-first reader with an embedded terminal agent, soon open source. This work led to the world model hypothesis.
- Software Engineer, Google (London)working on Text-to-Speech
- Research Intern, Microsoft Research (Redmond)Mobility and Networking Group, advised by Stefan Saroiu
- Researcher, IST Austria (Vienna)advised by Krishnendu Chatterjee
- UG Thesis, IIT Bombaywhere I worked with Soumen Chakrabarti and S Sudarshan
Education
- PhD - Computer Science, Stanford University
- MA - Economicsearned concurrently with PhD CS at Stanford
- B.Tech - Computer Science, IIT Bombay, Indiawith Honors and Minor in Applied Statistics and Informatics
- School - Don Bosco School Park Circus, Kolkata, IndiaISC (Class XII) and ICSE (Class X)