VANSH AGRAWAL

Work

Aspire
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Data Analyst Intern

Summary

Enhanced fraud detection capabilities for banking data, focusing on high accuracy & efficient data handling using ML & DL algorithms

Highlights

Performed feature engineering with One Hot Encoding on a 500k+ transactions dataset, enhancing model recall and interpretability

Applied SMOTE sampling and Robust Scaler for normalisation, used z-test for feature selection, ensuring reliable model inputs

Devised a model with XGBoost & ANN, achieving an F1 Score of 0.86, an AUC of 0.92 & improving fraudulent identification by 25%

University of Windsor
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Mitacs Globalink Research Internship

Summary

Designed an ML algorithm that empowers an automated vehicle to follow a lead vehicle closely, forming a cohesive platoon formation

Highlights

Achieved an accuracy of 98% at a rate of 40 fps by leveraging AprilTag in conjunction with Deeptag library for a resilient car detector

Applied OpenCV techniques, including colour thresholding, Gaussian blur and convolutions, to extract lane points on road images

Attained 76% accuracy on lane detection by implementing the RANSAC algorithm to fit two lanes among the extracted lane points

Indgeos Geospatial
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Data Science Intern

Summary

Leveraged machine learning techniques on high-resolution satellite imagery and geotagged data to estimate key health indicators

Highlights

Built an ML model leveraging Random Forest and XGBoost algorithms on a large-scale dataset of 120,000 records and 11000+ features

Enhanced dataset quality and robustness by using Standard Scaler for normalisation and KNN Imputer for addressing missing values

Achieved RMSE score of 11.39 by using correlation matrix, PCA, and Exploratory Data Analysis to analyse data points systematically

Volunteer

Nehru Hall of Residence| IIT Kharagpur
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Second Senate Member

Summary

Elected for Students' Senate, the apex student body at IIT Kharagpur, ideating & executing key decisions impacting 17,000+ students

Highlights

Chaired a student council of 7 General Secretaries and 19 Secretaries; curated and managed a budget of $27000 (10% YoY increase)

Led the hall to win the Technology and Social & Cultural General Championships (2 of 3 GC), securing the best record in 10 years

Technology Adventure Society | Technology Students’ Gymkhana | IIT Kharagpur
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Governor

Summary

Led a two-tier team consisting of 30 core members and 25 associate members to initiate adventurous activities at IIT Kharagpur

Highlights

Formulated a comprehensive yearlong budget of $2500 by overseeing the financial operations, supervised across 6 society events

Spearheaded the implementation of an online registration portal for the first time in 15 years, resulting in a 50% surge in responses

Education

Indian Instute of Technology Kharagpur

Dual Degree

Agricultural and Food Engineering / Engineering Entrepreneurship

Grade: CGPA 8.36/10

Kendriya Vidyalaya

Central Board of Secondary Educaon (Class XII)

Grade: 96%

Kendriya Vidyalaya

Central Board of Secondary Educaon (Class X)

Grade: 92%

Publications

Classification of carambola (Averrhoa carambola l.) according to the maturation stage using computer vision

Published by

15th Latin American Symposium On Food Science and Nutrition (SLACAN), Brazil

Summary

Douglas Fernandes Barbin, Marcus Ferreira, Vansh Agrawal et al.

Skills

Languages

SQL, Python, C, C++.

Libraries

NumPy, Pandas, Selenium, Matplotlib, SciKit-Learn, Keras, Flask, Tensorflow.

Coursework

Probability and Statistics, Programming and Data Structures, Economics, File Organisation and Database Systems, AI/ML, Linear Algebra, Advanced Calculus, Transform Calculus, Deep Learning, Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Projects

Master’s Thesis Project

Summary

Built an end-to-end hybrid analytics pipeline to optimise T20 cricket squad selection using machine learning and contextual indices

Research Project

Summary

Created a Biomedical Research Paper Classification Model Using Machine Learning, NLP Techniques, and PubMed Article Data