Rahul Arora
Hi, I'm Rahul. I study computer science at Columbia, and I build things where data meets people: markets, forecasts, and apps people actually open.
Go ahead, take a shot at a letter. They get back up.
lately.
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Research Assistant · Columbia Creative Machines Labnow
Teaching a robot to spot trash and pick it up, with vision and RL-based control. Working under Prof. Hod Lipson.
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Founder · DraftIQnow
A market where you trade pro athletes like stocks, priced in real time.
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Founder · Poll.Itnow
Swipeable political news for Gen Z. 55K TikTok followers in the first month.
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Technology Intern · Keye (YC F24)2024
Built ML models with the founder, regression and clustering on financial data, plus the pipelines that fed them.
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Data Science Intern · Copperwood Asset Management2023–24
Forecast electricity demand for an energy trading desk, from scikit-learn baselines up to XGBoost.
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Data Science Intern · Coffee for Good2023–24
Moved them off spreadsheets onto Salesforce, and wrote the algorithm that matches people to jobs.
work.
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DraftIQ ↗Trade athletes like assets. Dynamic pricing with liquidity built in, on a real-time backend.
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Poll.It ↗News turned into swipeable cards with an NLP pipeline. Grew to 1M+ views, all organic.
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Waste-sorting robot ↗Vision-based detection and RL control at the Creative Machines Lab.
poll.it, month one
off the court.
- I watch way too much sports, which is how DraftIQ started.
- I think about everything as a prediction market, including this website.
- I speak English and Hindi, and enough Spanish to get by.
- I write Python, Swift, Java, SQL and R, roughly in that order of how often.
say hi :)
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