Open to PhD and quant / risk roles

Rajiv Chaitanya Muttur

Reinforcement learning, graph learning, and quantitative finance, with a focus on macro risk.

Final-year CS undergrad at DSCE Bengaluru, minor in Economics and Finance. Six conference papers, three manuscripts under review, three working papers, sole or first author throughout. Currently a research intern at Indiana University Bloomington and remote at JSPM University.

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Swarm-augmented exploration for non-stationary rewards.

WCSC 2026, First Author

PPO selector for adaptive document retrieval in edge RAG.

ICEdge 2025, Best Paper Candidate

IRL recovers the reward, RL re-optimises against it.

Currently

Research

CNN-BiGRU segmentation of blink phases

At Indiana University Bloomington until May 2026. First-author work presented at ARVO 2026, Denver.

Risk

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Macroeconomic Risk

Stochastic control plus causal ML for SWF behaviour under regime uncertainty. Submitted to the Journal of Financial Stability.

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