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Sourav Ghosh
Sourav Ghosh
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Sourav Ghosh

Sourav Ghosh has worked in several proprietary, high-frequency algorithmic trading firms over the last decade. He has built and deployed extremely low latency, high-throughput automated trading systems for trading exchanges around the world, across multiple asset classes. He specializes in statistical arbitrage market-making and pairs trading strategies with the most liquid global futures contracts. He is currently the vice president at an investment bank based in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a master's in computer science from the University of Southern California. His areas of interest include computer architecture, FinTech, probability theory and stochastic processes, statistical learning and inference methods, and natural language processing.
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Understanding what low latency constraints matter in gaming applications

Video gaming has evolved greatly since it was first born in the 1960s and, these days, video games are not about playing alone or even playing along with or against the person physically next to you. These days, gaming involves many players all over the globe, and even the quality and complexity of these games have increased tremendously. It is no surprise that ultra-low latency and high scalability are non-negotiable requirements when it comes to modern gaming applications. With new technologies such as AR and VR, this only further increases the need for ultra-low latency performance. Additionally, with the advent of mobile gaming combined with online gaming, complex gaming applications have been ported to smartphones and need ultra-low latency content delivery systems, multiplayer systems, and super-fast processing speeds.

In the previous section, we discussed low latency real-time video streaming applications...

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Published in: Jul 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837639359

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Sourav Ghosh

Sourav Ghosh has worked in several proprietary, high-frequency algorithmic trading firms over the last decade. He has built and deployed extremely low latency, high-throughput automated trading systems for trading exchanges around the world, across multiple asset classes. He specializes in statistical arbitrage market-making and pairs trading strategies with the most liquid global futures contracts. He is currently the vice president at an investment bank based in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a master's in computer science from the University of Southern California. His areas of interest include computer architecture, FinTech, probability theory and stochastic processes, statistical learning and inference methods, and natural language processing.
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