Arav Chheda

Arav Chheda is currently an Incoming Software Engineering Intern at IMC Trading since October 2022. Prior experience includes serving as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where a significant contribution involved developing VerdictDB, an analytics library that significantly reduced query processing costs for Walmart and Locally. Previous roles also include a Software Development Intern position at MichiganWorks!, where Ruby on Rails and AWS were leveraged to enhance user functionality for an online job-matching platform, and another Undergraduate Research Assistant role at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where a virtual reality educational game was created. Initial experience was gained as an Intern at Myelin Foundry, focusing on improving video streaming performance through C programming and digital rights technology design. Arav Chheda is pursuing a degree in Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, having graduated from the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science in 2020.