Aritra Banerjee

B.S. ECE @ Carnegie Mellon | Jane Street FTTP

Raritan, New Jersey, United States

About

Experience

  • Research Assistant at Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute (PQSEI)
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    ☆ Optimized radiotherapy positioning (IMRT) on lung cancer patients using Mixed Integer Programming solver.

  • Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    ☆ Redesigned Graver basis computation in C++ with OpenMP parallelization, achieving a 3600× performance increase over standard implementations. ☆ Built simulated annealer with GPU-accelerated CUDA code, delivering a 4× speedup over D-Wave’s baseline. ☆ Created a model to efficiently solve the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) using quantum-inspired GAMA (Graver Augmented Multiseed Algorithm).

  • First Year Trading and Technology Program at Jane Street
    Mar 2026 - Mar 2026 · 1 mo

    ☆ Selected as 1 of ~100 students out of 20,000 to learn about quantitative finance concepts.

  • Research Intern at Stevens Institute of Technology
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    ✫ Summer intern at Qu Lab. ✫ Worked to create quantum algorithms for financial portfolio diversification with a graduate student. ✫ Researched quantum algorithms to solve NP-hard graph problems.

  • Open Source Developer at IBM
    Dec 2023 - Jun 2024 · 7 mos

    ✫ Discovered graph theory-based algorithm reducing quantum circuit depth by 10% on average. ✫ Merged a Level 3 transpiler pass into Qiskit through peer-reviewed pull requests, adding comprehensive unit tests and contributor documentation.