Kartik Venkat has extensive experience in research and academia, currently serving as a Researcher at PDT Partners since February 2016. Prior roles include Graduate Research Assistant and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Stanford University from January 2011 to December 2015, as well as a Quantitative Research position at D. E. Shaw & Co. in mid-2013. Kartik also gained research experience through internships at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 2011 and the University of Melbourne in 2009. Academically, Kartik holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and a Master of Science (MS) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Stanford University, along with a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in the same field from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.