Vasav Y.

Experience

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  Communiqué IIT Kharagpur

  Jan 2021 - Apr 2024

  • Spearheaded a two-tier team of 70+ students and managed a budget of INR 100k+ to conduct Career aiding and Soft-skills events for 16000+ students• Established IIT Kharagpur's inaugural Global Model United Nations (GMUN) conference with a 100k+ budget rallying 150+ delegates from West Bengal• Supervised the All India Placement Aptitude test (AIPAT) acquiring the participation of over 3000+ students from the top 20+ institutes all over India• Co-managed the Web development team that involved working with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL, to maintain the society’s Official Website• Organised case studies, competitions, and soft-skill-related internal events restructuring the Internal front of 30+ secretaries as Internal Affairs Head• Coordinated weeklong Internship and Placement Bootcamp and orchestrated a highly impactful Mock Interview Drive witnessing over 150+ participants Show less

  • Convenor

    Apr 2023 - Apr 2024

  • Governor

    May 2022 - May 2023

  • Secretary

    Aug 2021 - Apr 2022

  • Associate

    Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
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  Kharagpur Robosoccer Students Group

  Jun 2021 - May 2022

  AI Team Member

  A research group working on building autonomous bots for playing soccer. We participate in international events like RoboCupsoccer• Part of 5-member team currently working on Small Sized League (SSL) Team codebase to ensure its continuous improvement and up-to-date functionality• Leveraged the Python's multithreading and socket programming to craft a streamlined Casino game inclusive of a server, client, and numerous players• Organised CODE-O-SOCCER competition, uniting 40+ teams from across India, an integral component of Kshitij, renowned Technical Fest of IIT Kharagpur Show less

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  Hacktoberfest

  Oct 2021 - Oct 2021

  Open Source Contributor

  Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean in partnership with GitHub and Twilio.

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  Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  May 2022 - Jun 2022

  Summer Research Intern

  Project-1: Given the coordinates of multiple sources and destinations, find the nearest pair and time required to cover that distance efficiently• Extracted and compiled coordinate data of various schools, hospitals, bus stations, pharmacies, cafes, toilets, parks, etc from Overpass Turbo platform• Utilised the QGIS software to find centroids of points and computed the distance matrix, identifying the two closest pairs based on straight-line distance• Determined the actual distance and estimated travel time on foot between the two closest pairs by writing a Python script that calls Nextbillion.ai APIProject-2: Exploratory data analysis on Twitter data to predict the number of likes and retweets• Collected comprehensive tweet data of top 500 celebrities, 50 academic institutions, and sustainability-related accounts using the Twitter API in Python• Applied the Sentiment Analysis on collected tweets leveraging, TextBlob library in Python and trained a Multi-Layer Perceptron with 3 hidden layers• Showcased significant error reduction by progressively increasing the number of hidden layers from 1 to 3, validated via Mean Squared Error analysis Show less

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  Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

  May 2022 - Jun 2022

  Summer Research Intern

  Project-1: Analyzing the ethical implications in the digital public discourse of Flipkart through Twitter• Procured a total of 34, 567 tweets by 36 users using the Twitter API and conducted data cleaning employing R packages such as tm and academictwitteR• Visualized data as Word Cloud and did further analysis on topics such as the point of conflict, Flipkart's response strategies and user satisfaction levels• Observed that predominant point of conflict mainly was service-related and Flipkart used a strategic combination of denial and evasion of responsibilityProject-2: Tracking environmental crisis discourse in prominent Indian English newspapers in the past 4 years• Extracted a total of 4,44,768 headlines from the esteemed newspapers spanning the years 2018-2020, employing the Beautiful soup library in Python• Implemented the Multinomial Naive Bayes model with an accuracy of 85% after data pre-processing, categorizing previously unlabelled news headlines• Uncovered a major 56% rise in the frequency of environment and sustainability-related news following the profound influence of the Covid-19 pandemic Show less

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  Amazon

  Jun 2022 - Jul 2022

  Mentee - Amazon ML Summer School

  • Fundamental concepts of Machine Learning were expertly taught by the distinguished scientists at Amazon enriching my understanding of the ML Domain• Some of the topics covered in the sessions were: Supervised Learning, Deep Neural Networks, Unsupervised and Reinforcement Learning with lab sessions

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  Axis Bank

  May 2023 - Jul 2023

  Business Intelligence Intern

  Awarded ‘Pre-placement Offer’ in cognizance of the dedication displayed and effectively addressing timely requirement• Performed a data sanity check to ensure the application of Data Quality rules to the products; investigated all the invalid rows to increase the BIU score• Worked on data deduplication by performing descriptive analysis; drew useful insights between cluster ids and other parameters such as cust_id, city, etc• Conducted root cause analysis of the data to find out that BIU Score for occupation can be increased by 60% by updating the occupation master sheet Show less

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  American Express

  Aug 2024 - now

  Analyst- Data Science