Sarjak Maniar

Experience

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  Alter Ego Learning

  May 2019 - Jul 2019

  Marketing Intern

  Orchestrated a personality development session for 300+ attendees by overseeing end-to-end project deliverables, including logistics, marketing, and maintaining audience engagement throughout the event.Managed registrations of the people and handled the database for different batch timings resulting in smooth check-in for the event. Pitched start-up idea to solve one of the UNSD goals in a team of 3 members, achieving 2nd place among 17 teams.

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  Training and Placement Cell - TSEC

  Mar 2021 - Apr 2022

  Envoy and Database Manager

  Responsible for handling the database of the students, verifying the documents, and assisting in the communication between the students, TPO, and the company recruiters.

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  Ladli Foundation Trust- In Special Consultative Status with Economic & Social Council since-2020

  Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

  Web Development Intern
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  Leo9 Studio | Design & Tech Agency

  Aug 2021 - Jul 2022

  Data Science Analyst

  Performed customer segmentation using Python for an online vehicle booking startup, implementing Hierarchical Clustering to analyze demographic, behavioral, and geographic data for developing personalized marketing strategies.Conducted A/B testing to optimize targeted campaigns, resulting in a 20% increase in conversion rates and a 15% improvement in customer retention.Used cohort analysis & data visualization to boost user engagement and grow the customer base by 10% in the first quarter. Show less

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  Rutgers University–New Brunswick

  Oct 2022 - Dec 2023

  Worked as a Teaching Assistant and Part-time Lecturer for the course CS170:Computer Applications for Business.Conducted in-person and online recitations for 50+ students covering the topics of HTML, CSS, Javascript, Algorithms and Flowcharts, Excel, SQL and Databases. Prepared the lecture material and assisted the students during office and lab support hours.Responsible for tracking attendance, grading assignments, and calculating final grades.

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant and Part Time Lecturer - CS170

    Sept 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Student Proctor

    Oct 2022 - Aug 2023
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  Mintex Tech

  May 2023 - Aug 2023

  Data Scientist

  Implemented time series forecasting models using Prophet and LSTM to optimize inventory management, accurately predicting demand fluctuations and reducing stockouts and overstocking by 17%.Leveraged SQL and Tableau to analyze workflows and delivery patterns, and visualize performance trends, enabling data-driven decisions that improved delivery speed by 20%.

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  Rutgers Business School

  Sept 2023 - Dec 2023

  Course Grader

  Course Grader for the 33:620:302:Management Skills course in the Department of Management & Global Business (MGB) at Rutgers Business School.

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  Behavioral Informatics Lab - Rutgers University

  Feb 2024 - Feb 2025

  Data Science Research Assistant

  Worked on a project to assess the robustness of healthcare AI models using LLMs like GPT & Llama. Also evaluated BlueBERT model, achieving baseline accuracies of 92.79% on medical abstracts and 78.2% on sentiment analysis tasks.Designed text perturbations on clinical data simulating real-world challenges (e.g., typos, homophones, removal) and performed statistical analysis to evaluate and enhance model reliability in healthcare applications.