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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Year Degree Institute Performance
2021 B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 7.7/10.0
2017 Grade 12th (RBSE) Lord Krishna Public School, Kota 92.8 %
2015 Grade 10th (CBSE) Sophia Secondary School, Kota 10.0/10.0
SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS
• Awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by Dean of Students’ Affairs, IITK for recognition as an Internship Coordinator, 2019-20 2019
• Secured All India Rank 3436 (top 0.27%) in JEE Advanced and 2288 (top 0.18%) in JEE Main among a total of 1.3 million students 2017
• Recipient of the prestigious Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship, with AIR 1467 conducted by IISc Bangalore 2016
INTERNSHIPS
• Business Analyst Intern, OYO Hotels and Homes, Gurugram May’ 20 – Jun’ 20
Mentor: Abhishek Pradhan, Head of Cards Program, Partnerships and Alliances
• Summarize and visualize payment modes used across geographies including India, United States & South East Asia
Objective
• Analyze trends in Indian payments to compare growth in UPI and digital methods against cash transactions
• Used MySQL integrated script to fetch meaningful data from bookings and transactions database of over 9 months
• Segmented digital transactions by mapping 6000+ BIN numbers from consolidated lists to Credit/Debit Card Brands
Methodology
• Identified potential partners like GrabPay and Boost by creating market share views across 6 booking channels
• Evaluated transaction success rates for 45+ payment methods and classified their failure reasons into four buckets
• Built an Excel Dashboard to aid strategic partnership decisions with merchants; used by 60+ employees daily
Impact • Developed a promotional strategy to increase prepaid bookings share by 20%; escalating app realization metrics
• Research Intern, Geoinformatics Laboratory, IIT Kanpur May’ 19 – Jul’ 19
Mentor: Prof. Salil Goel, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Objective • Process point cloud data received from Velodyne LiDAR sensor and perform object detection and tracking
• Implemented Hierarchical DBSCAN clustering algorithm to identify objects in 3D-point cloud with 30k data points
Approach
• Identified human-like objects by a BPNN binary classifier using cluster density calculated by statistical techniques
Result • Presented a robust algorithm to identify indoor objects and achieved 96.4% accuracy in classifying human objects
POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY
• Overall Placement Coordinator, Students’ Placement Office, IIT Kanpur Mar’ 20 – Present
Leadership • Spearheading a 4-tier team of 150+ members to conduct placement and internship drive for 1300+ & 750+ students
• Revamped Company Login enabling firms to create openings on the job portal saving 100+ man hours annually
• Initiated the development of PhD placement system catering to the needs of 150+ graduating doctoral students
Initiatives
• Effectuated Tracker for administering current needs in database management of 5000+ companies among 50 peers
• Planned a series of 5 Preparatory tests; scores used to extend eligibility across departments for software profiles
• Recorded highest number of offers accepted till date with 71 students getting offers on Day 1 of Internship Drive
• Attained 18% YoY growth in number of students selected in the first week of a completely virtual Internship Drive
Impact
• Firms like Proctor & Gamble, Jane Street and Bloomberg confirmed for the first time in recruitment drive 2020-21
• Collaborated with IITK Alumni Association providing 80+ opportunities to students whose offers were revoked
ACADEMIC PROJECT
• Restaurant Visitor Forecasting | Prof. Faiz Hamid, IIT Kanpur May’ 19 – Jul’ 19
Objective • Build a time series forecasting model to predict number of bookings to restaurants by Ensemble Learning methods
• Executed data integration & numerosity reduction by correlation & elbow diagram analysis on 2 million tuples
Approach
• Employed six regression models and compared their accuracy using R-squared value, F-test and RMSE metrics
Result • Finalized the model using Gradient Boosting, XGBoost and kNN Regressor to reach RMS error value of 3.24
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Organised a Departmental Get-Together for 600+ faculty, staff & students as Coordinator, Society of Civil Engineers
Managerial
• Handled a budget of 4 lacs to conduct ‘Afsana’- annual hall foundation day attended by over 1500 people
• Bagged 1st position in Electronics Club event ‘Embedded’, at Takneek’18, the annual intra-college technical festival
Achievements
• Awarded Best Social Project for CANSAT, Astronomy Club in Sci-Tech Summer Camp’18 among 40+ projects
• Conducted ‘Intern-Gyan’ session for sophomores of Civil Engineering department preparing for Internship Drive
Guidance
• Delivered a lecture on ‘Death of Universe’ attended by 150+ astronomical sciences enthusiasts of the campus