Deeksha Dhiwakar

Experience

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  Web and Coding Club, IIT Bombay

  Jun 2023 - Mar 2024

  Convener

  Organized AI, ML, web development and coding events, workshops and competitions for the IITB community

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  Jane Street

  Dec 2023 - Dec 2023

  Jane Street: SEE IIT Program

  • Among the top 50 students from leading IITs selected for the program at Jane Street’s Hong Kong office• Learnt Jane Street’s quantitative approach to trading through lectures, trading games and research workshops• Developed a custom game using the functional programming language OCaml

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  Franklin Templeton

  May 2024 - Jul 2024

  Data Science & ML Intern

  • Developed a LightGBM model for excess return forecasting from corporate bond data• Leveraged machine learning techniques for feature selection, and conducted comprehensive backtesting and out-of-time testing to validate feature effectiveness and model accuracy• Created pipelines for fine-tuning Llama 2-7b and DistilBERT models to analyse the Hawkish/Dovish stance of Central Banks, trained on their Monetary Policy Statements, achieving accuracies of 76% and 78% respectively• Leveraged the derived Central Banks’ stance to predict the Forex movement of G10 Currency Pairs Show less