Rohit Kumar is a partner at PDT Partners, a quantitative hedge fund in New York.  He has been at PDT since 2007.  Prior to PDT, he was in quantitative proprietary trading groups at Merrill Lynch and BNP/Cooper Neff.  Rohit completed his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Chicago in 2000 and received his AB (Economics) and MS (Statistics) degrees from Stanford University.