Pranav Walimbe

I’m working on equities research infra at Balyasny Asset Management in the systematic group this summer

I’m mainly interested in data / ML systems that are fast and useful

Recently, I worked on ML models for estimating power plant emissions from satellite imagery under Prof. Ron Cohen [poster]

Currently, I’m also playing around with a performant spatial query layer for Polars [github], which has been very competitve on Apache’s spatial query benchmark [benchmarks]

Experience

Balyasny Asset Management

Data Engineer Intern · June 2026 – August 2026 · Austin, TX

Working on equities research infra in the systematic group

Amazon Web Services

Software Development Engineer Intern · May 2025 – August 2025 · Seattle, WA

Worked in the Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) express brokers team, redesigned the Apache Kafka Produce API for offset-preserving cluster migrations

Synopsys

Software Engineer Intern · May 2024 – August 2024 · Sunnyvale, CA

Worked on graph and tabular ML models for chip design optimization in the PrimeClosure team

Intel

Software Engineer Intern · June 2022 – August 2022 · Folsom, CA

Worked on chip design automation tooling in the process design kit design rule optimization team

Research

Cohen Atmospheric Chemistry Lab

Student Researcher · February 2026 – May 2026 · Berkeley, CA

Worked on ML models for estimating power plant emissions from satellite imagery, advised by Prof. Ron Cohen

Data Science Discovery Program

Student Researcher · Fall 2023 – Spring 2025 · Berkeley, CA

Completed multiple semesters of applied industry research projects:

· Gilead: Financial Anomaly Detection, advised by Ethan Yen (Spring 2025)

· IBM: Synthetic Labelling for Remote Sensing Captioning, advised by Dr. Ranjan Sinha (Fall 2024)

· and some others too