I'm an IIT Kharagpur, class of 2024, undergraduate majoring in Economics. As an economics student with interest in Artificial Intelligence, I have taken courses across Machine Learning and NLP. I am Interested in handling computationally heavy datasets to derive insights for impactful decision making.
I'm an independent teamworker strong in research and coding. My area of expertise is Data Analytics. Below are highlights of my technical skills:
Here are my work experiences and education.
November 2020 - March 2021
I Worked in Srini Raju Centre for IT and the Networked Economy as a Research Intern. During my Internship period, I worked as a joint intern with Housing.com and SRITNE, ISB and assisted in developing the Housing Price Index for India, finding the correlation between Stock Prices and Social Media Sentiment, and Gender Classification of Patents.
October 2020 - November 2020
I Worked as a Natural Language Processing Intern to classify Products into HS Codes based on Description of the Product.
July 2019 - May 2024
Executive at Kharagpur Open Source Society. Former Secratary Students' Welfare at LBS Hall of Residence. Former Associate Member at Spring Fest.
April 2017 - March 2019
Graduated 3rd in class out of 350 students, with an overall of 94.6% .
April 2006 - March 2017
Awarded the Best Boy in the School for the session 2016-2017. Managed the Tech Team of the School Editorial Board. Head of the St. Mark's House for the session 2016-2017.
Summary of my leadership & extracurricular activities
Kharagpur Open Source Society• February 2020 - Present
Responsible for the smooth conduct of events to familiarize students with open source technologies and philosophy.
Organized Kharagpur Winter of Code (KWoC) which saw a participation of over 2500 students.
Contributed to KWoC's website development and took record of monthly meetings & discussion.
Spring Fest• August 2020 - July 2020
Sole member responsible for publicity drive in the city of Mumbai resulting in a 73% YoY increase in participation.
Coordinated with a team of 11 Campus Ambassadors and increased the visibility of the fest.
As an Information Kiosk Attache, acted as sole Point-of-Contact between 5000+ participants and the Organizing Committee.
Spring Fest
Let me get to know more about you.
LBS Hall of Residence
IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur
721302 India
hello@palkitlohia.me