ABHINAV SINGHAL | 18HS20002

[email protected] 9775405888
ECONOMICS (M.Sc. 5Y)

EDUCATION
Year Degree/Exam Institute CGPA/Marks
2023 M.SC(5YR) IIT Kharagpur 7.98 / 10
2017 CBSE Delhi Public School 84%
2015 CBSE Bikaner Boys School 9.0 / 10
INTERNSHIPS AND PROJECTS
Affine Analytics Pvt. Ltd. | Data Science Intern | Bangalore [May'22 - June'22]
Objective: Built a model that can automate resume scoring and ranking process using Natural Language Processing
• Performed data cleaning and keyword extraction from applicants resume by using PyPDF2 package and created a Bag of Words Model
• Created a weighted scoring system to effectively rank resumes for a given job description using Spacy PhraseMatcher and NLTK
• Streamlined the entire process into a pipeline and created API's for weighted score and Bar graph to scale and automate the process
Disjoint Set Union | Project
• Implemented an algorithm for Disjoint Set Union ,useful for various tasks like finding connected componets and finding MST of graph
• Implemented union find by rank variation for improved efficiency and futher improved efficiency by path compression of DSU tree
• Explored various C++ OOPs concepts like objects,structure, classes, constructors, encapsulation, static functions and access specifiers
Detecting Covid-19 with chest X-rays | Project [July'21]
• Created an image classification model and used data set of around 3000 X-rays that can predict chest X-ray scans of patients that belong
to one of the three classes - Normal, Viral Pneumonia or Covid19 with reasonable high accuracy of around 79.8%
• Trained Covid-19 radiography dataset from Kaggle and achieved an overall 85.5% accuracy on test set by using ResNet18 (Convolutional
Neural Network) pre-trained image classification model and further performed hyperparameter tunning to increase accuracy to 87.3%
Time Series Analysis | Term Project | Prof. Pulak Mishra [Sep'20 - Nov'20]
• Explored the short-run and long-run relationship between stock market and macro-economic variables with the monthly data set
• Checked the stationarity of each Time Series and applied the Error Correction Model to test for the short-run and long-run dynamics
• Tested for the Granger Causality among Nifty, Call money rate, Inflation rate, Exchange rate, Gold prices and several other variables
• Finally concluded that the stock market is weak-form efficient since past the data have no significant impact on the stock market
COMPETITION/CONFERENCE
Data Analysis Challenge | Technology General Championship | IIT Kharagpur [February'20]
Objective: To analyse electricity consumption of 5 corporate buildings over period of 9 months & predict consumption for next 3 months
• Identified stationarity & auto-correlation of time series by conducting ADF test & DW statistics test on given 15-minute timestamp data
• Trained & tested time series forecasting models Holt Winer's, ARIMA, SARIMA and identified which model fits best on given data
• Constructed final model by ensembling of SARIMA & VAR models and achieved 85% accuracy on taking test data as 20% of given data
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Secured All India rank - 2531 of the total 1,600,000 candidates in Joint Enterence Examination, Mains held in 2018 conducted by CBSE
• Secured All India rank - 2974 in General category JEE Advanced Examination conducted by IIT Kanpur in 2018 and got 99.2 percentile
COURSEWORK INFORMATION
Mathematics: Probability and Statistics | Discrete Mathematics | Integral Calculus | Transform Calculus | Numerical solutions of ODE PDE
Computing: Programming and Data Structures(Theory+Lab) | Applied Algorithms and Data Structures | Object-Oriented System Design
MOOCs: Machine Learning | Applied Data Science in Python Spec.| Probability and Statistics | Regression and Time series Modelling
Economics: Public Finance and Policy | Banking Theory and Finance | International Finance | Operations Research(Theory+Lab)

SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

Programming Languages: Python | C++ | C | MATLAB Softwares: Anaconda | Jupyter Notebook | Spyder | DWSIM | Solidworks
Libraries and Tools: Scikit-learn | Pandas | Numpy | Tensorflow | Keras | Darknet | Tesseract | OpenCV | Flask | Matplotlib | Seaborn

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Mess Secretary | MMM Hall of Residence | IIT Kharagpur [Sep'19 - Mar'20]
• Carried out various surveys related to mess conditions, meal quality, and hygiene conditions of the mess among the 1400+ boarders
• Helped to improve the quality, taste of food and snacks given to the boarders living in the hall, as well as the mess's overall condition
Core Team Member | MMM Hall of Residence| IIT Kharagpur [Sept'19 - Nov'19]
• Part of the team responsible for designing, planning and organizing the Illumination and Rangoli event for MMM Hall of Residence
• Coordinated with the team of more than 200 students and managed the activities involved in Illumination for MMM Hall of Residence
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Taught many students of villages in the social welfare campaign initiated by the National Service Scheme(NSS) at IIT Kharagpur
• Participated in the Hall Dramatics in General Championship for presenting creative portrayal of rampant social issues and social awarness
• Solved more than 1000 questions on different coding platforms like Leetcode ,InterviewBit, Binary Search and Codeforces and many more
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