DIRGHAYU KAUSHIK

ACADEMIC PROFILE
Degree/Certificate Institution Percentage/CGPA Year
Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology IIT (BHU),
B-Tech 7.70 2021
Varanasi
CBSE (XII) Vivekanand Memorial Public School 84.60 2017
CBSE (X) Vivekanand Memorial Public School 95.00 2015

SKILLS
Technologies: Python, MS Excel, SQL, Data Visualization, Scikit Learn,
Interests: Product Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Data Analytics, Fintech
Relevant Coursework: Advanced Business Strategy, Digital Product Management, Financial Markets,
Data and Digital Economy
INTERNSHIP/TRAINING
Analyst | Fintech Sandpit July’20 - Aug’20
Generated synthetic data by developing python scripts with probabilistic distributions. Created
specific datasets for Data Marketplace.
Researched about AI Marketplace to integrate with the current platform. Also compared existing
solutions and created a 3 screen lo-fi wireframe.
Product Analyst | Kaamwork May’20 - July’20
Conducted User Research to minimise the bounce rate and created lo-fi wireframes, collaborated
with designers to improve and push new UI features.
Optimized various parameters for resume auto-filtering algorithm used to give scores to job
applications and worked on Gamification to improve user engagement as well as the experience.
Project Manager | Z Nation Lab May’19 - July’19
Worked to formulate the Corporate Innovation Initiative which resulted in a successful joint venture.
Scouted and Analysed the startups in accordance with the problem statement by HSBC.
PROJECTS
NuSchool | EdAstra July’20 - Present
Co founder - EdAstra is a platform for students to find the project partners
Managed and established partnerships with different organisations for the beta testing of the product.
Created a landing page and pitch deck, spoke to 10+ VCs & experts and 50+ potential users to
validate the viability and market.
London Strategy and Consulting Group | Fraudfi May’20 - July’20
A Fraud Detection and Prevention Platform
Calculated the similarity score for Fraud Analysis and then predicting the Risk Score of the transaction
using unique behavioural biometrics.
Trained and optimised results from Random Forrest and XG Boost models with specific use-cases
achieving more than 86% recall.
Sentiment Model using BERT on IMDB Dataset Aug'20 - Sep'20
Built a sentiment analysis model for positive and negative reviews using BERT transformer models on
IMDB 50K Movie Review Dataset achieving 93% accuracy score.
Used Docker to train the deep learning model and served it using Flask API.
POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY
Vice President | Entrepreneurship Cell Aug'20 - Present
Founding Team Member and Associate Vice President of E-Cell
Led a team of 100+ members to inculcate entrepreneurship culture in the institute.
Helped budding startups by providing them assistance in team building, product development, and
branding. Mentored them from ideation to launch.
Student Coordinator | Institute Innovation Council, MHRD Aug'19 - Present
Led a students' team of 20+ sophomores for the implementation of MHRD initiatives in the institute.
Assisted in data aggregation and optimised different aspects to improve ARIIA ranking of the institute.
Students' Head | Cisco thingQbator Aug’19 - July’20
Established the structure of the thingQbator to be run by students' body in a sustainable manner.
Organised Hackathons, evaluated 30+ tech projects for cohorts and assisted them in the product
development and their launch.
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