AMISHI RANA
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EDUCATION
IIT KHARAGPUR 2018 - 2023
Dual Degree (BTech and MTech) in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture, CGPA: 8.12
Micro Specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
EXPERIENCE
Senior Data Analyst | IPAC, Hyderabad July 2023 - Present
Project: State Election App Analysis
● Used TextBlob for sentiment analysis and BERT for topic modeling on a dataset of tweets and comments
● Implemented AI-driven summarization of feedback and survey reports, reducing analysis time by 60-70%
● Boosted user engagement by 30% with short-form content during peak hours, averaging 53 seconds per view
● Developed an AI-powered chatbot in the app to address user queries, resulting in a 20% increase in user retention
Leveraged Knowledge: Topic Modelling, GENAI, Python, SQL, Tableau, Statistics, Excel, Dashboards, NLP, LLM, EDA
Data Analyst Intern| Stratmed, Hyderabad May 2022 - July 2022
Project: Clustering of medicines
● Applied feature engineering techniques with data pre-processing on medical dataset of 2.7 lakh medicines
● Preprocessed data by removing duplicates using the specified criteria and handled ambiguous values for clustering
● Applied clustering algorithms like K-means and Hierarchical agglomerative clustering to cluster the medicines
● Used clusters to gain medical insights on the characteristics of medical equipment for better stock management
Machine Learning and Research Intern| NTNU, Norway May 2021 - July 2021
Project: AIS data clustering and catch prediction
● Applied feature engineering on AIS geospatial data of fishing vessels in Norway for the past two decades
● Used Tree-based regression algorithms like LightGBM and XGBoost for catch prediction by the fishing vessels
● Achieved an MAE of 48.37 Kg and 119.2 Kg for the southern and the northern region model, respectively
● Clustered catch profiles using K-means and DBSCAN algorithms to obtain discrete behavioral types of fishers
Leveraged Knowledge: Python, Predictive analytics, Tree-based ML Algorithms, Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib
Machine Learning Intern | iC2C, IIT Kharagpur May 2020 - July 2020
Project: Unsupervised Text Clustering and Topic Modeling
● Scrapped the academic data of students using beautifulsoup4 and applied feature engineering to the dataset
● Preprocessed data using NLTK and Spacy. Used word vectorization methods like TF IDF and word embeddings
● Applied algorithms like K-means, DBSCAN, Affinity Propagation, and Hierarchical agglomerative clustering
● Visualized clustered data using word clouds for the identification of different topics in text and their importance
Leveraged Knowledge: Data Pre-processing and analysis, Python, Clustering ML Algorithms, Scikit-learn, NLP
PROJECT
Data Analytics Aug 2020 -Sep 2020
Project: Credit card default prediction
● Applied feature engineering techniques on demographic and financial data of 30000 account holders
● Applied algorithms like logistic regression, decision tree, and random forest and tuned the hyper parameters
● Achieved the best ROC-AUC score of 0.776 after analyzing the average four-fold cross-validated score
● Derived financial insights from the model, allowing the client to boost his profit through a variety of programs
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
● Member of Mother Teresa Hall Basketball Team, a Gold Medalist in General Championship Sports, IIT Kharagpur
● Secured Second Position in the General Championship Social and Cultural Dramatics, IIT Kharagpur, 2019-20
● Participated in Interhall Social and Cultural Championship for Illumination and Rangoli Competition, IIT Kharagpur
