ISHU RAJPUT : irajput@iitk.ac.

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Final Year Undergraduate | Department of Civil Engineering : +91-9785361181|
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
Year Degree Institute CPI/%
2017 - 2021 B.Tech. in Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 6.85/10.0
2017 CBSE (XII) Sachdeva MIllenium School, Agra 89.2%
2015 CBSE (X) St. Francis Convent School, Sikandra, Agra 10.0/10.0
KEY ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Self-Project | Credit Card Fraud Detection May’20 - June’20
Objective  Built a model to classify fraud transactions dealing with high class imbalanced dataset containing credit card transactions data.
 Used various tools in Python for visualization and pre-processing of a high-class imbalanced dataset containing transactions data.
 Performed various techniques like Random Undersampling, Near-Miss Algorithm, and SMOTE to handle class imbalance.
Project
 Applied various statistical and ML algorithms like Logistic Regression, SVM, KNN, achieving classification accuracy up to ~93%.
 Compared different models based on their F1 score and Confusion matrix and plotted their ROC Curves and Learning Curves.
Portfolio Optimization (Data Science in Finance) June’19 - July’19
Finance Discussion Group, Science and Technology Council, IIT Kanpur
Objective  Predicting stock prices based on historical data and build minimum variance portfolio.
 Used Modern portfolio theory to get the optimal weights for maximum Sharpe ratio and minimum variance portfolio.
 Applied PCA for dimensionality reduction and gradient boosting for feature selection.
Project
 Generated optimal weights for a group of assets from given historical information and features using various ML models.
 Achieved R2 score of 0.92 using Multi-linear Regression and 0.78 using XGBoost in predicting stock prices.
Surveying and Topographical Mapping Aug’19 - Nov’19
Mentor – Prof. Onkar Dixit and Dr. Balaji Devaraju, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur CE331A (Geoinformatics)
Objective  To prepare a topographic map of Library and L20 Ground using QGIS software and basic surveying techniques.
 Used GNSS, Total station, AutoLevel etc. to capture local features, local coordinates and global coordinates according to UTM.
Project
 Preparation of map using QGIS software having suitable scale, sign conventions and essential map elements.
Analysis of Arch Bridge Feb’19 - Mar’19
Mentor – Prof. Durgesh C Rai, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur CE272A (Structural Analysis)
Objective  To conduct analysis of a model Arch Bridge using commercial structural software SAP2000.
 Drew comparisons between model and experimental force data from 25 data channels using MS Excel.
Project
 Concluded that computational analysis is pretty accurate and sufficient for validation of experimental designs.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages C, C++, Python, JavaScript, MATLAB, HTML, CSS, MySQL
Software and Tools Git, SAP2000, QGIS, AutoCad, Adobe Photoshop, MS Excel
RELEVANT COURSES *Ongoing Course
Machine Learning Machine Learning (coursera) | Statistical Simulation and Data Analysis*
Mathematics Fundamentals of Computing | Applied Probability and Statistics | Computational Methods in Engineering
and Algorithm Calculus and Real Analysis | Linear Algebra and Ordinary Differential Equation | Partial Differential Equations
Other Courses Introduction to Economics

POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY
Finance Manager, Antaragni’19, IIT Kanpur April’19 - Nov’19
 Assisted Head Finance in all financial matters pertaining to the festival.
Managerial
 Maintained financial records of the ongoing processes related to the festival.
Responsibility  Ensured distribution of merchandise (T-shirts etc.) during and before the festival.
Design Team, Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kanpur May’18 - April’19
 Envisioned, planned and organized E-Summit the annual entrepreneurial event with 16 members team
Managerial
 Managed publicity work which helped to increase the reach of E-Summit by 250%
 Created content, poster and Banner for efficacious publicity of event in and out of campus.
Responsibility  Coordinated and organized workshop for 2000 students to promote start-up culture.
Impact  Increased Social Media reach and Participation by 1.5 times.

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

 Achieved 2nd position in Institute Football League 2019. (organised by GnS Council IITK)
 Lead Scorer of the winning Football team in Josh 2018. (organised by GnS Council IITK)
 Participated in Dance in inter-hall cultural competition Galaxy 2018. (organised by Cultural Council IITK)
 Senior Security Officer in Techkriti 2018.