Dilip Thiagarajan
Member Of Technical Staff at Citadel Securities
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDilip Thiagarajan is a versatile Machine Learning Engineer and Quantitative Researcher with a decade of experience building production ML systems across finance and healthcare, including roles at Citadel Securities, Paige AI, and Facebook. He combines deep technical foundations from Cornell (MEng in Computer Science) with hands-on experience shipping research-driven models into production environments. Comfortable with both research and engineering, he has moved between academia and industry, from graduate research at Cornell to ML engineering at a pathology AI startup and high-performance quant research. Currently on garden leave under a non-compete until June 2027 but open to non-finance tech and applied ML roles, he’s now a Member of Technical Staff at Latent in NYC. Outside work he’s an avid basketball and tennis player, reflecting a competitive, team-oriented mindset that complements his analytical rigor.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School General Education, High School General Education at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Cornell University
English, Tamil, French
Github Skills (50)
gbm10
xgboost10
dataflow10
machine-learning10
r9
artificial-intelligence9
spark9
pytorch9
java9
gradient-boosting9
scala9
python9
distributed-systems9
data-mining9
kaggle9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dthiagarajan/grozi_tf
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:57 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
dthiagarajan/simclr_pytorch
Jun 2020 - Jun 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 5 years
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