Sakshar Desai

Experience

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  Turtlemint

  Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

  Tech Intern

  1. Constructed a pipeline for extracting keywords from content items using keyword extractors such as YAKE and TopicRank.2. Created an insurance/financial glossary via web scraping and utilized it to filter relevant keywords.3. Designed a UI using Flask and HTML templates to allow users to upload files and visualize associated keywords.

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  Virginia Tech

  Aug 2022 - Dec 2023

  Providing statistical advice and analysis to Virginia Tech researchers through collaboration meetings. Project: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Chicago Crime Data1. Identified structural breaks and seasonal patterns in the time series of monthly crime counts.2. Improved baseline model’s BIC by 6% by modeling seasonal variation.3. Created visualizations of spatial distribution of different crime types using terra. Graded assignments and held weekly office hours to help students understand statistical concepts.Courses:STAT 3704 (Statistics for Engineering Applications)CMDA 4654 (Intermediate Data Analytics and ML)

  • Associate Collaborator, Statistical Applications and Innovations Group

    Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Aug 2022 - May 2023
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  Virginia Tech

  Feb 2024 - now

  Intern, Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science

  Performing data cleaning and statistical analyses to support various research projects that come through the Center.