Maitraya Kanta Bhattacharyya

Richard hails from Tulsa. He has earned degrees from the University of Oklahoma and Stanford. (Go Sooners and Cardinals!) Before starting Pied Piper, he worked for Hooli as a part time software developer. While his work focuses on applied information theory, mostly optimizing lossless compression schema of both the length-limited and adaptive variants, his non-work interests range widely, everything from quantum computing to chaos theory. He could tell you about it, but THAT would NOT be a “length-limited” conversation!

Work Experience

Summer reading project

IISER Kolkata

Summer 2014 - ongoing

Pied Piper is a multi-platform technology based on a proprietary universal compression algorithm that has consistently fielded high Weisman Scores™ that are not merely competitive, but approach the theoretical limit of lossless compression.

  • Build an algorithm for artist to detect if their music was violating copy right infringement laws
  • Successfully won Techcrunch Disrupt
  • Optimized an algorithm that holds the current world record for Weisman Scores

Research interests

General relativity and black hole physics

Gravitational waves and numerical relativity

Computational physics

Volunteer

CoderDojo

Teacher

2012-01-01 - 2013-01-01

Global movement of free coding clubs for young people.

  • Awarded 'Teacher of the Month'

Education

University of Oklahoma

Information Technology

Bachelor

2011-06-01 - 2014-01-01
GPA: 4.0
  • DB1101 - Basic SQL
  • CS2011 - Java Introduction

Awards

Digital Compression Pioneer Award

Techcrunch

2014-11-01

There is no spoon.

Publications

Video compression for 3d media

Hooli

2014-10-01

Innovative middle-out compression algorithm that changes the way we store data.

Skills

Programming

Proficient

  • Fortran
  • Java
  • C
  • Lua
  •  

Learning

  • C++
  • Lisp
  • Mathematica

Data visualization

  • Gnuplot
  • Mathematica
  • Processing

Typesetting

  • Latex
  • Scribus

Languages

Bengali

Native speaker

English

Bilingual proficiency

Hindi

Limited working proficiency

References

It is my pleasure to recommend Richard, his performance working as a consultant for Main St. Company proved that he will be a valuable addition to any company.
— Erlich Bachman