Gurugram, India · Applied Scientist at Amazon
Aditya Girish Pawate
Mathematics & Computing at IIT Kharagpur, once the founder of an AI startup, now an applied scientist. This page is my story so far, one year at a time. Scroll to travel it.
THE EARLY YEARS
born 2000, up to where the story begins
The timeline
The story so far, one year at a time.
Milestones appear along the line as they happen. The years further out are still open, waiting to be filled.
2018AGE 18
JUL 2018 · AGE 18
IIT Kharagpur
Began the five-year Integrated MSc in Mathematics & Computing at IIT Kharagpur.
AUG 2018 · AGE 18
Business Club
Joined the Business Club as an Associate, my first campus leadership role.
2019AGE 19
AUG 2019 · AGE 19
Business Club Subhead
Promoted to Subhead of the Business Club.
DEC 2019 · AGE 19
Inter-IIT Basketball
Selected for the Inter-IIT basketball contingent; went on to win silver among 23 IITs and 250 participants.
2020AGE 20
JAN 2020 · AGE 20
Research Assistant, IIT KGP
Research assistant in the Signal Processing and Machine Learning Group.
MAY 2020 · AGE 20
ENSTA Paris
Research intern at ENSTA Paris' Autonomous Systems and Robotics Lab, four months in Île-de-France.
MAY 2020 · AGE 20
Founded Chi SquareX
Founded Chi SquareX, an AI/ML research company that grew to 200+ clients and $100k+ in sales, recognized as a top 10 deep-tech startup in India.
JUL 2020 · AGE 20
Head, Data Analytics Group
Became Head of the Kharagpur Data Analytics Group: grew it to 50 members, raised $1,500 in hackathon sponsorship, and won the Data Analytics General Championship.
DEC 2020 · AGE 20
Presented at COLING
Presented a co-authored NLP paper (0.5062 MAP score) at COLING 2020 in Barcelona and served as a student volunteer for the conference.
2021AGE 21
JAN 2021 · AGE 21
HPAIR Delegate
Selected as a delegate to the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations.
APR 2021 · AGE 21
Cornell University
Summer research intern with the Cornell Graphics and Vision Group in Ithaca, New York.
JUN 2021 · AGE 21
Max Planck Institute
DAAD WISE Scholar, top 1.3% of applicants; researched procedural music generation with independent mechanisms in Tübingen, Germany.
JUN 2021 · AGE 21
Advisor, Data Analytics Group
Stepped from Head into an Advisor role at KDAG.
JUL 2021 · AGE 21
Stanford University
Summer intern in the Kundaje Lab, Department of Genetics, applying deep learning (BPNet, DeepLIFT) to regulatory genomics.
2022AGE 22
MAY 2022 · AGE 22
Goldman Sachs (intern)
Summer analyst intern at Goldman Sachs, Hyderabad.
2023AGE 23
FEB 2023 · AGE 23
Inter-IIT Gold
Captained the team to gold at Inter-IIT 11.0, proposing a Bayesian network with causal inference for the Site Inspection Problem case study.
APR 2023 · AGE 23
Graduated IIT Kharagpur
Graduated with a 9.45/10 GPA, Department Rank 4, and top 5% institute-wide GPA among final-year undergraduates.
JUL 2023 · AGE 23
Goldman Sachs
Joined full-time as an Analyst: built market-surveillance systems and automated trading strategies that saved $4M over two months.
2024AGE 24
JUL 2024 · AGE 24
Toastmaster Global
VP of Public Relations, Hyderabad; won gold at the Area and Division level humorous-speech contests.
2025AGE 25
FEB 2025 · AGE 25
Amazon
Applied Scientist, Gurugram: forecasting pipelines beating benchmarks by 15% WAPE across $1B+ in package revenue, and a GenAI tool saving leadership 4.5 days a month.
2026AGE 26
MAR 2026 · AGE 26
Entrepreneurs First
Entrepreneur in Residence, Spring 2026 cohort of Entrepreneurs First, Bengaluru.
MAR 2026 · AGE 26
Co-founded dotler.ai
Cursor for digital advertising, built during the EF cohort.
MAY 2026 · AGE 26
Co-founded GydeXP
Co-founder and CTO, San Francisco Bay Area.
JUL 2026 · AGE 26
This site goes up
The log opens. One entry per milestone from here on.
2027AGE 27
2028AGE 28
2029AGE 29
2030AGE 30
2031AGE 31
2032AGE 32
2033AGE 33
2034AGE 34
The road ahead
Still building.
From research labs to a trading desk to founding companies: the through-line is building things that work, then building the next one.
IIT KHARAGPUR
GPA 9.45
PUBLICATIONS
4+
COUNTRIES
4
THE ROAD
OPEN
Let’s connect.
New milestones get added as they happen. If any of this resonates, I’d love to hear from you.