Nishant Bhakar

“That’s 88 missed podiums!”
Max Verstappen, on his 100th podium in 188 races

So far

Etched Member of technical staff. 2025–present
Jane Street Software engineer intern. 2025
Eventual Software engineer intern. Built the window function engine for Daft. 2025
Berkeley NLP Group Researcher with Professor Dan Klein. Built a cryptic crossword solver. 2023–24
UC Berkeley BA, Computer Science and Physics. Cofounded the competitive programming club. 2021–24

Olympiads

ICPC World Finals Tied 36th, Luxor. 13th at North American Championship; 1st in Pacific Northwest Div 1. 2022–23
USA Math Olympiad Qualifier, top 250 nationally. 2021
USA Computing Olympiad, Platinum Top 200 nationally. 2021
USA Physics Olympiad Qualifier twice, top 150 nationally. 2020–21

Problems

Degree-4, diameter-4 graph Largest known. 104 vertices. 2026
CS170 — graph partitioning 1st of 260 teams. 2022
CS61A — both contests 1st of 2,000+ in each. 2021
Hydrocarbon molecular dynamics Lifson–Warshel consistent force field, in JAX. 2020