HARSHIT SHARMA | 20HS20024

ECONOMICS (M.Sc. 5Y)

MINOR in MATHEMATICS & COMPUTING (M.Sc. 5Y)
MICRO SPL. in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS
EDUCATION
Year Degree/Exam Institute CGPA/Marks
2025 M.SC(5YR) IIT Kharagpur 8.19 / 10
2019 Class XII Jaipur School 87.8%
2017 Class X Jaipur School 10 / 10
PROJECTS

Time Series Analysis Jan'23

OBJECTIVE- To use time series analysis techniques to forecast number of passengers flying in a period
• Built ARIMA, SARIMA models to predict number of passengers flying in a given period using time series analysis
• Used differencing technique to make the time series stationary while attaining a p-value of 0.2 for ADF test
• Analysed PACF and ACF plots to determine the right lag in model and found SARIMA to outperform ARIMA model
ITC Valuation | Term Project | (Prof. Gourishankar Hiremath) Mar'23
OBJECTIVE- To leverage financial analysis and valuation skills to obtain the intrinsic value of ITC shares
• Carried out a DuPont analysis using key financial ratios like profitability, D/E etc to judge ITC's financial health
• Forecasted ITC's financial metrics like COGS, future sales, revenue etc to estimate future FCFF, CCF & ECF
• Utilized DCF & DDM methods to determine intrinsic value of ITC stock based on discounted FCF & dividends
Econometrics | Term Project (Prof. Pulak Mishra) Oct'22
OBJECTIVE- To quantify measures to determine financial performance and profitability of Indian banks
• Performed panel data regression to achieve the above stated objective using data from 24 banks for 10 years
• Concluded a random effect model achieving 1% level of significance and an R- squared (within) value of 0.22
• Assessed fixed effect model and pulled off 1% level of significance with an R-squared(within) value of 0.23
• Discovered that total debt to owners funds and interest expended to interest earned have negative correlations
with profit margin and return on assets
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

General Secretary Maintenance | Jcb Hall of Residence

•Elected by the boarders of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose hall of residence with 90% votes in favour of me.
•Organized and managed the biggest fest of IIT Kharagpur, Illu 2022 and ensured maximum participation
•Administered hall maintenance worth INR 10 Lacs+ that led to repair and purchase of new appliances
•Successfully managed the hall with a 30% less workforce than required and reduced cost to HMC by 30%
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Stood among the top 0.2% by achieving a rank of 1948 among 1.1 million students who sat for JEE Mains
• Secured a rank of 4200 ,amongst the top 1.5% in JEE Advance 2020 among 0.25 million shortlisted candidates
COURSEWORK INFORMATION
Maths &Programming : PDS | Probability And Statistics | File Organization And Database Systems(Lab+Theory)
Economics &Finance : Microeconomics | Macroeconomics | Econometric Analysis | Statistics For Economics |
Financial Management | Financial Institution And Markets | Corporate Valuation and Restructuring | Financial
Analysis Laboratory | Public Finance | General Equillibrium and Welfare Economics | Economics of Growth
MOOCs : ML by Stanford University | Trading Algorithms | Bloomberg Markets | Time Series Forecasting
SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
Languages & Tools: Python(proficient), SQL(intermediate), C++, C, Google Colab, jupyter notebook, Kaggle
Softwares & Platforms: MS Office, Excel, Stata, Github, MySql, VS code, Tableau(familiar), arduino(familiar)
Libraries: Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, seaborn, plotly, Scikit-learn, statsmodels, facebook prophet
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
SPORTS
• Represented IIT Kharagpur in the 54th Inter IIT sports meet,IIT Roorkee as a midfielder in institue football team
• Captained JCB hall football team and begged silver medal in the GC 2022-23 and got the best player award
CULTURAL
•Head of the Illumination and Rangoli event representing Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Hall of Residence
• Actively participated in the inter hall events, was part of the silver winning choreography team 2022-23.
!Self declared by the student, CDC could not verify the relevant documents