Data-Driven Services
Business Strategy
• Precise Revenue Forecasting
• Strategic Target Setting
• Advanced Reporting Enchancement
• Customer & Inventory Management
Machine Learning
• Large Language Classifier Models
• Breakout Analysis for Public Equities
• Customer Behavioral Analysis
• OCR for Documents
Project Development
• Data Visualization & Dashboards
• A/B Testing
• Hypothesis Testing
• Statistical Modeling
University
Georgetown University
McCourt School of Public Policy
Master of Science, Data Science for Public PolicyAugust 2019 - May 2021
• Relevant Coursework:
•
Microeconomics
• Statistics I & II
• Data Science I, II & III
• Data Visualization & Geographical Information
Systems
• Massive Data Fundamentals
• Computational Linguistics
• Recevied the Merit based Graduate School Financial
Aid
Award.
• Managed the financial operations of the South
Asian
Policy
and Research Initiative as Treasurer
(2019-21).
• Advocated for student concerns and needs, serving
as a
liaison between students and faculty as GradGov
Senator
(2020-21).
Mumbai University
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and TelecommunicationAugust 2015 - May 2019
• Relevant Coursework:
•
Applied Mathematics I, II, III
&
IV
• Structured & Object Oriented Programming
• Analog and Digital Electronics (I & II)
• Signals and Control Systems
• Wave Theory, RF Modeling, and Sat. Comm.
• Microprocessors & Microcontrollers
• Integrated Circuits & VLSI Design
• Computer Networks
• Inducted into the Hall of Fame (2018-19) for
display
of
extra-curricular excellence.
• Organized, participated and judged over 50 Model
UN
Conferences across India (2015-2019).
• SYNC, Computer Society of India: Mumbai Chapter
(2015-16):
Designed and built a custom Arduino-based automated
medication dispenser enabled with seamless operation
through
Bluetooth connectivity with smartphones for precise
and
reliable dosage delivery.
• The Management Society - TSEC (2016-17):
Strategized
and
executed 3 major student event conferences involving
over
1000 participants overall as the Debate Coordinator.
Professional Experience
Full-TimeDIA Associates
AnalystAugust 2021 - September 2023
New York, NY, USA
Collaborated with clients from
cross-functional teams of a Fortune 500
multinational
financial services corporation that specializes in
payment cards to drive profitable business decisions
and
improve overall internal capabilities assisting
their
Global Commercial Services division (United States
Region) by:
•
Boosted overall customer spend targets by
~30%
YoY
by statistically analyzing KPIs, thereby
building a
robust
forecasting model.
• Enhanced visibility on reporting requirements
by
100% by enabling weekly/monthly reporting
of
-
• Performance tracking of Business
Development
Leaders,
• Tracking and consolidation of sources of
Revenue
via
cross-segmentation of various
cross-functional
teams,
• Tracking the impact of Covid-19 and its
trailing
effects on various business segments,
• Improved management of
~10% of customer
accounts
specifically by analyzing Rolling-12
customer-cycle
spending
profit margins.
• Optimized resource allocation by strategizing
the
deployment of efforts toward replicating
historically
successful deals.
• Built an LLM classifier model with ~85%
accuracy to
understand actual customer engagement from
ad-hoc tasks
for
reporting purposes.
Fellowships
Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia
Data Science for Public Good FellowMay 2021 - August 2021
Arlington, VA, USA
• Led a team of 2 interns to
classify
innovation from news sources using LLMs to reduce
the
costs of surveys for the National Science
Foundation.
•
Our summer project focused on enhancing
innovation
measurement for the National Science Foundation
by
implementing advanced Natural Language
Processing
techniques. We aimed to supplement traditional
survey
data with alternative methods, successfully
constructing
a pipeline to identify innovation from text
sources and
extract relevant company information. This
approach
provides a real-time means of identifying
innovation,
offering a more dynamic perspective than
traditional
survey methods. Learn
more.
• Built a comprehensive dashboard for presenting
Arlington County Park Access Equity Data in
collaboration with the Arlington government.
•
In collaboration with Arlington County,
Virginia,
conducted an equity-focused study on park
provision,
analyzing demographic factors and travel
accessibility
to assess alignment with community needs. Learn
more.
Assistantships
Georgetown University
Graduate Research AssistantSecurity Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
November 2019 - May 2021
Washington, DC, USA
• Graduate Research Assistant for
Professor C. Christine Fair
• Co-authored with Prof. C. Christine Fair and
Prof. Parina Patel an academic paper that was
published in Small Wars and Insurgencies Journal
in May 2021: Did
India's demonetization policy curb
stone-pelting in Indian-administered
Kashmir?
• Co-authored article about the paper at Gateway
House, Indian Council on Global Relations in
June 2021: Linking
demonetization and stone-pelting
• Created a novel time-series dataset of
stone-pelting events in Indian Administered
Jammu
and Kashmir (J&K). (608 Downloads from the
Harvard Dataverse as of March
2024.)
• Tabulated household survey data from Pakistan
in
STATA to study the positive correlation between
education
and income, as part of a separate project.
Internships
The World Bank
Data Publication InternDevelopment Impact (DIME)
February 2021 - May 2021
Washington, DC, USA
Cleaned, wrangled, aggregated, and translated (from Portuguese to English) country-governance-related survey data (3 datasets, ~3200 variables) in STATA to be statistically analyzed to gain insight into irrigation-related development of a country in Africa.
The World Resources Institute
Data Science InternClimate Team
June 2020 - August 2020
Washington, DC, USA
Compiled disparate sources of data and produced a new normalized dataset to evaluate and quantify water use of ~500 thermoelectric plants across North America & Europe.
Skills
Soft SkillsCOLLABORATION
LEADERSHIP
Microsoft Office Suite
MEMO WRITING AND DOCUMENTATION
Languages: English, Marathi & Hindi
Hard Skills
Python
SQL and PySpark
R
Tableau & PowerBI
Web Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
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