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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (GPA: 3.6/4.0) New York, NY

Master of Science in Operations Research Sep 15 Dec 16
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Data Analytics in Python, Fall 2016
Relevant Coursework: Data Analytics, Strategy Consulting, Probability&Statistics, Optimization, Statistical Machine Learning,
Data Science Capstone, Capital Markets, Stochastic Models, Analysis of Algorithms, Deep Learning

NSIT, DELHI UNIVERSITY (GPA: 3.7/4.0) Delhi, India
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering Aug 11 May 15
Awarded merit scholarship for academic excellence, 2012 and 2013
Relevant Coursework: Programming, Data Structures, Algorithms, Databases

T E C H N I C A L S K I L L S

Programming Languages: Python, R, SQL, C, C++

Theoretical Knowledge: Statistical Tests, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Neural Networks

P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E
Synergic Partners: Data Analytics Intern New York, NY
Analyzed Call Detail Record (CDR) and cell towers data with over 1 million records, using SQL and R Feb16 May16
Performed feature engineering to characterize users based on calls and mobility patterns
Identified and visualized various geo-related patterns using SQL, in integration with the GIS tool CartoDB

Microsoft SMSG: Summer Intern



Bangalore, India
Mapped services and monetization model for Cloud Computing products of Microsoft and Amazon June 14 July14
Interacted with Microsofts clients in India to understand their Cloud adoption status and corresponding short term plans
Developed Microsoft cloud adoption report to create product roadmap for optimizing user experience

D A T A A N A L Y T I C S P R O J E C T S

Spoken Language Understanding using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks Columbia University
Implemented the Microsoft research paper on spoken language understanding using LSTM on ATIS dataset Nov 16Dec 16
Reproduced results for shallow and deep LSTM, output regression on LSTM via moving average, LSTM gate simplification
Added attention mechanism to the model, resulting in slight improvement in test accuracy

Song hit prediction Columbia University

Employed web scraping to extract Billboards yearly top 100, all time hits, all time worst songs Mar 16 Apr 16
Generated acoustic features using Echonest API, and lyrics features using TF-IDF & semantic analysis
Implemented and tested in Python, the Machine Learning algorithms SVM and Logistic Regression, to predict song success

Unexpectedness in recommender systems Delhi University

Generated recommendations that are surprising yet useful using collaborative filtering Jan 15 May 15
Improved level of unexpectedness by incorporating items attributes
Implemented and tested algorithm using Python, on MovieLens dataset

Regular pattern mining in dynamic weighted-directed networks (published in IEEE) Delhi University

Enabled in-depth analysis of data by incorporating weight and direction aspects in regular pattern mining Aug 13 Dec14
Clustered users having same repetition rule over time, indicative of similar behavior
Implemented the algorithm using R, on the real world dataset of Enron emails containing approx. 500,000 emails

L E A D E R S H I P

Columbia Graduate Society of Women Engineers: Treasurer

Planned and maintained budget throughout the academic year

New York, NY

Jan 16 Dec 16
Developed and maintained communications with the Engineering Graduate Student Council for funding purposes

Coordinated with core team members to strategize and discuss the ongoing and future activities of club Aug 14 May 15
Organized the annual club activities and maintained partnerships with club associated NGOs

Rotaract Club of NSIT Regency: Secretary Delhi, India