AADHAR MEHTA | 20MA20001
MATHEMATICS & COMPUTING (M.Sc. 5Y)
EDUCATION
Year Degree/Exam Institute CGPA/Marks
2025 M.SC(5YR) IIT Kharagpur 7.91 / 10
2019 CBSE Eklavya International Academy 92%
2017 CBSE Eklavya International Academy 10 / 10
INTERNSHIPS
Data Scientist | ScholarsERP May'24 - Jul'24
• Conducted competitive analysis and market research using BeautifulSoup, gathering data from 20+ ERP competitors and review platforms
• Utilized NLTK, spaCy for sentiment analysis, assessing customer satisfaction and market trends to refine feature selection and precision
• Leveraged XGBoost model to extract key features, driving data-driven insights that refined and improved market penetration strategies
• Crafted ML models using Random Forest and XGBoost, achieving over 85% accuracy in forecasting ERP adoption and market penetration
PROJECTS
Detecting Financial Fraud Through Sentiment Analysis | Bachelor's Thesis Project Jan'24 - Apr'24
Supervisor: Professor Apurba Das, Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur
• Fine-tuned VADER-based sentiment analysis model, achieving 88% accuracy in detecting financial frauds across 30+ company transcripts
• Applied NLP techniques, including tokenization, lemmatization, and stop words filtering, to preprocess and enhance model performance
• Integrated sentiment scores with financial ratios, constructing correlation matrix to identify discrepancies in EPS, ROA, and Profit Margin
Predictive Modeling of S&P 500 Stock Index using Time Series Analysis | Term Project Jan'24 - Apr'24
Supervisor: Professor Buddhananda Banerjee, Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur
• Developed S&P500 prediction model based on SLR and MLR models, incorporating data from 4 global indices (FTSE,CAC40,S&P/TSX,DAX)
• Leveraged over 5+ models including SARIMAX with AutoARIMA garnering 98.53% accuracy &deployed LSTM to reach 98.91% accuracy
• Simulated conditional volatility &mean returns with EGARCH, using Monte Carlo simulation to time series prices for enhanced forecasting
COMPETITION/CONFERENCE
Predict the Winner of the T20 Cricket Match | American Express Jun'24 - Jul'24
• Incorporated detailed player and team profiles into datasets using feature extraction techniques, enhancing data-driven decision-making
• Implemented StratifiedKFold cross-validation to preserve class distribution across training and test datasets, boosting model robustness
• Integrated LightGBM with HMM to boost match outcome predictions, increasing accuracy from 50% to 69.7% using stratified sampling
Behaviour And Content Simulation Challenge | Adobe Nov'23 - Dec'23
• Created CLIP embeddings for image-prompt pairs and trained models leveraging user data and media inputs, with 300,000 tweet corpus
• Developed BLIP-2 embeddings and BERT tokens, utilizing custom SAM-loss and a hybrid MLP head with COBRA to reach an RMSE of 2263
• Fine-tuned 3 LLMs (LLAVA-1.5-13B, LLAMA-2-7B, NExT-GPT) with MAMBA retrieval framework for user-centric augmented prompts
• Achieved 93% increase in BLEU-3 score and 75% in ROUGE score compared to zero-shot GPT-4 predicted tweets for content simulation
SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
• Languages & Libraries : C/C++|Python|R|SQL|Tensorflow|Keras|yfinance|OpenCV|Statsmodel|Scikit|Numpy|Pandas|Matplotlib
• Software &Tools : Git & Github|Matlab|Advanced Excel|VS Code|Google Colaboratory|Jupyter Notebook|MySQL|Latex|RStudio
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
• Secured AIR 3015 in JEE Advanced, placing in top 1.2% and AIR 2984 (99.78 percentile) in JEE Main 2020, ranking in top 0.2% nationwide
• Showcased athletic prowess and determination by securing a Gold Medal in Hammer Throw at the Inter Hall General Championship
COURSEWORK INFORMATION
• Mathematics Courses : Linear Algebra, Numerical &Complex Analysis | Real Analysis | Modern Algebra | Numerical Solutions of Ordinary
and PDE| Transform Calculus | Probability and Statistics | Stochastic Processes and Applications | Theory of Partial Differential Equations |
Mathematical Modelling |Optimization Methods in Finance | Number Theory | Financial Mathematics | Convex Optimisation
• Computing Courses : Programming and Data structures | File organization and Database Systems | Big Data Analysis | Design and
Analysis of Algorithms | Computer Organization and Architecture | Combinatorics and Graph theory | Optimization Techniques | Modelling
and Simulation Lab | Cryptography and Network Security | AI &ML | Regression Analysis and Time Series Models | Statistics Software Lab
• MOOCs : Deep Learning and Neural networks | Convolutional Neural Networks | Machine Learning | Data Structure &Algorithm
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Finance Head | Design Coordinator | Kshitij 2023 | IIT Kharagpur Apr'22 - May'23
Kshitij is the annual techno-management fest of IIT Kharagpur
• Managed sponsorship acquisition, alumni donations, and financial spending for Kshitij 2023 with a budget of more than INR 2 crore
• Led the sponsorship team to successfully acquire sponsorships with worth of 70 lakhs, marking the highest milestone in last 5 years
• Oversaw 25 offline events, an ISRO exhibition, an auto-expo, and guest lectures featuring Dr. K. Radhakrishnan and Mr. Ashneer Grover
• Managed event orchestration, attracting 15,000+ students; handled guest reception and media banners, aligning with partner needs
Core Organizing Team Member | Kshitij 2022 | IIT Kharagpur Sep'21 - Mar'22
Kshitij is the annual techno-management fest of IIT Kharagpur
• Secured an individual net sponsorship amount worth over INR 3 lakhs from the region of Delhi and Rajasthan through Alumni Donation
• Established agreements worth over INR 1 lakh with 3 prominent healthcare organisations: Sunburst Healthcare, Augnito, and Webcardio
• Led a team of 24 Campus Ambassadors and 55 Kshitij Campus Affiliates to conduct prelims for first time ever in the region of Rajasthan
• As the Website Sub Coordinator, responsible for curating events, workshops, sponsorship, and exhibition details on the Kshitij website
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