MIMANSI AGARWAL
@ mimansi17@gmail.com * New Delhi, India ƒ +91-8755440251
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Manager, Strategy and Data Science
Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd.
z Jun 2021 - Sep 2023 * Mumbai
Automated Scheduling for Hindi Movie Channels
• Received "Made a Difference" Award for exhibiting owner-
ship and successful implementation
• Automated FPC generation process for 4 channels to re-
duce process time (saving 120 man hours/month), increase
channel TRP (by 10%) and eliminate scheduling errors
• Extracted data from various sources, including Web-scrapping,
and analysed factors affecting Movie TRPs
• Created relevant variables, treated outliers, and modeled
data using LightGBM regressor to predict Movie TRPs
• Used IBM CPLEX linear optimiser on 10L+ constraints and
50k+ variables to generate channel schedule for maximis-
ing monthly GRPs
• Generated multiple reports to ease the manual process and
provided insights to maximise TRPs
• Designed product workflow and project managed the cre-
ation of business facing tool by coordinating with product
and business teams
IPL Match End Prediction to Maximize Ad Revenue
• Extracted and processed IPL ball by ball data, players data,
etc. of 15 seasons to create 50+ variables
• Implemented XGBoost model to predict match end with +-
1 over accuracy of 70% at first ball of 2nd innings
• Created pipeline by scrapping live data from ESPNcricinfo
and integrated telegram bot to share live predictions
Intern, Financial Research
D.E. Shaw
z Nov 2020 – May 2021 * Hyderabad
• Evaluated quality of various alternative datasets by com-
paring with reported metrics from 10k reports
• Performed EDA to extract insights, did hypothesis testing
and built statistical models to forecast growth
• Analysed website data and formulated a modelling ap-
proach to forecast company’s operational metrics
Consultant, Insurance Analytics
EXL Service
z Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 * Gurgaon
• Selected (1 of 15) for Mastermind Award for successful
delivery of 3 client engagements
• Premium Collection: Reduced 32% outstanding premium
for a fortune 500 insurance firm; Developed Power-BI
dashboard and implemented invoice prioritization system
• Financial Data Extraction: Automated credit score calcula-
tion using 10k reports; Implemented Faster RCNN model
to identify tables in PDFs and extract content using Tabula
ï linkedin.com/in/mimansi-agarwal/
EDUCATION
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics
IIM Calcutta, IIT Kharagpur, ISI Kolkata
z June 2019 – May 2021 CGPA: 9.07/10
B.Tech, Chemical Engineering
IIT Roorkee
z Jul 2014 – May 2018 CGPA: 8.389/10
12th Class
S.V. Public School, Jaipur
z 2013 Score: 91.0%
10th Class
St. Angela Sophia Sr. Sec. School, Jaipur
z 2011 CGPA: 9.6/10
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
• Automated Answering: Used Amazon’s QA & reviews
to automatically answer user queries; Used cosine
similarity on BERT embeddings to create data and
implemented Bi-LSTM, CNN model
• Sales Prediction: Forecasted 60 day sales of 600 courses
by ensembling XGBoost, LightGBM & FBProphet
models with GridSearch hyperparameter tuning
• Invoice Data Extraction: Extracted data form scanned
invoices using PyTesseract, OpenCV; Created blocks
and classified them using TF-IDF MLP model & spaCy
ACHIEVEMENTS
• National Winner in analytics case for market entry
strategy for mobile application, by IIM Nagpur (2020)
• Ranked 4th in Bain & Company Women Hackathon
based on sales prediction of multiple products (2020)
• National finalist (top 8) in AB InBev Maverick Chal-
lenge, aimed at data extraction from images (2020)
• Rewarded with Outstanding All-Rounder by Director,
IITR, amongst all graduating female students (2018)
• Won Jury’s Choice Award out of 7000+ teams across
the nation in Accenture Innovation Challenge (2017)
EXTRACURRICULARS
• Dance: Graduated (BA-Visharad) in Kathak; Joint Sec-
retary, Choreography Dance Section, IITR 2015-16;
Member of Choreography Club, IIMC
• VP, Enactus, IITR: Supervised team of 20 on 3 social
entrepreneurship projects & participated in United
Nations YCC’18
• TedX IITR: Manager Promotions - Led a team of 5
people & managed social media accounts; 250+ stu-
dents took parts