Balaji Adithya Narayanan
I am a computer science and mathematics student at Imperial College based in London.
From 2023 to present, I have been building experience through internships at Palantir, AI startups, research opportunities and other student societies.
Education
2023 - 2027
MEng Joint Mathematics and Computer Science, Imperial College London.
First Class Honours
2020 - 2022
International Baccalaureate Diploma.
44/45 points, 4 HL subjects - Top 1.6% worldwide
Experience
2025 Jul
2025 May
Student Researcher - Generative AI (Bursary Recipient), Imperial College London.
Supervised by Dr. Jiankang Deng, head of generative AI at Imperial
London, UK
2024 Aug
Software Engineer Intern, Stealth AI Startup.
Collaborated with Jeff Wilson (Harvard PostDoc, 2x Founder, YC Alum)
Remote
2023 Jul
Investment and Technology Intern, Tristar Investment Management.
Reduced report production times by 90% for USD 700M AUM
Singapore
2023 May
Software Engineer Intern, Tagit Technologies.
Solutions deployed by Singapore Government & major banks (CitiBank, DBS)
Singapore
2023 Apr
Software Engineer Intern, Campus.ai.
Cut manual prep time by 60% for 20+ ML model architectures
Singapore
Projects
2025 Jan
WACC Compiler - x86_64 Intel assembly code generation.
Scala, Parsley, Assembly
2024 Nov
PintOS Operating System Implementation.
Thread management, process management, system calls
2024 Jun
ARMv8 AArch64 Emulator and Assembler.
C, Assembly, Raspberry Pi
2024 Feb
Terra aim - Runner up at ICHack 2024.
Weapons aim training system with health metrics
2022 Mar
Investigation into the Inception-v1 CNN architecture.
Research project optimizing CNN configurations
2022 Jan
Neural Style Transfer upon VGG19.
School project implementing artistic style transfer
Involvement
2025 May
Chair, Imperial AI Group.
University leader for student-led AI events and projects
London, UK
2025 Feb
Fellow, Cambridge University AI Fellowship.
One of 24 students selected across the UK
Cambridge, UK
2024 Sep
AI Startup School, Y Combinator.
Top 7.5% of students - Invited to Anthropic's office, dinner with Gustaf Alströmer
San Francisco, CA
2024 Jun
Host, [craft].
Student initiative sponsored by Entrepreneur First. Run in collaboration with nodes at Oxford and Cambridge.
London, UK
2024 May
Sponsor Liaison, DoCSoc (Imperial College).
Acquired £220,000 in funding for the highest funded student society in Europe.
London, UK
2024 Feb
Member, Beta Sigma Club.
Quantitative finance society
London, UK