Shirish Chinchalkar

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Shirish Chinchalkar, an Indian American mathematician, mechanical engineer, computer scientist, and senior analyst at Moody's Investors Service. He holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and an M.A. in mathematical finance from New York University, and gained experience in numerical and high-performance computing, and computational finance, where he applied Monte Carlo methods, numerical optimization, and parallel computing while teaching and researching at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Cornell University.

=Number of Chess Positions= In 1996, Shirish Chinchalkar determined 10^46.25 as upper bound for the number of reachable chess positions.

=Selected Publications=
 * Shirish Chinchalkar, Thomas F. Coleman (1995). Parallel structural optimization applied to bone remodeling on distributed memory machines. Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol. 4, No. 4
 * Shirish Chinchalkar (1996). An Upper Bound for the Number of Reachable Positions. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3
 * Shirish Chinchalkar, Thomas F. Coleman, Peter Mansfield (2004). Cluster Computing for Financial Engineering. PARA 2004
 * Shirish Chinchalkar, Thomas F. Coleman, Peter Mansfield (2005). Financial Computations on Clusters Using Web Services. ICCS 2005

=External Links=
 * Dr. Shirish Chinchalkar | Moody's Analytics
 * Shirish Chinchalkar | LinkedIn

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