KATARU CHANDANA SRI | 20HS20029

ECONOMICS (M.Sc. 5Y)

EDUCATION
Year Degree/Exam Institute CGPA/Marks
2025 M.SC(5YR) IIT Kharagpur 7.17 / 10
2020 Board of Intermediate Education Bhashyam Junior College 94.7%
2018 Board of Secondary Education Bhashyam High School 9.8 / 10
PROJECTS
Loan Status Prediction | Self Project Jun '23 - Jul '23
•Collected loan dataset and performed data processing tasks such as handling missing values and label encoding
•Visualized relationships between variables and loan status using seaborn countplots
• Performed dataset splitting into training and test sets,and subsequently trained a Support Vector Machine model
•Evaluated the model's accuracy on training and test data, achieving 79.9% and 83.3% respectively
Financial Report on Company | Course Project Mar '23 - Apr '23
(Under Prof. Gaurishankar Hiremath | HSS Department | IIT Kharagpur)
• Executed SWOT analysis using Dabur India's balance sheets and cashflows, uncovering insightful findings
• Utilized Excel to calculate WACC, forecasted balance sheet values for 5 years, and analyzed FCF, CCF, and ECF
•Performed Du Pont analysis to evaluate the company's financial performance and estimated enterprise value
• Applied financial analysis, data manipulation, and strategic evaluation to drive informed decision-making
Growth of Indian Agriculture Sector | Course Project Oct '22 - Nov '22
•Analyzed secondary data from the Economic Survey of India and RBI's Handbook of Statistics
•Examined the role of agricultural production in driving India's economic growth through empirical analysis
•Implemented multi-linear regression model to establish relationship between GDP and chosen crop variables
•Highlighted potential for future research to explore additional factors and formulate effective agricultural policies
•Performed extensive statistical analysis to verify model's long-term stability and absence of statistical anomalies
CERTIFICATIONS
Virtual Internship | JP Morgan Chase | Investment Banking Jul '23
•Identified and evaluated M&A targets for WorldWide Brewing Co. analyzing information on five target companies.
• Estimated bid price for HappyHour Co using DCF model, considering forecasts and sensitivity analysis.
•Incorporated supply chain impact, assumptions, and bidding dynamics to revise bidding price for HappyHour Co.
SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
Programming Languages: Python | C | C++ (Familiar) | SQL
Professional Softwares: Excel | Word | Powerpoint | MySQL | Jupyter Notebook
Packages and Libraries: Pandas | Numpy | Scikit-Learn | Matplotlib | Seaborn | Plotly | NLTK (NLP) | Tensorflow

COURSEWORK INFORMATION
Relevant Courses: Programming and Data Structures* | File Organization and Database Systems* | Econometric
Analysis* | Probability and Statistics | Financial Analysis Laboratory | Corporate Valuation and Restructuring |
Financial Management | Financial Institutions and Markets | Macroeconomics | Microeconomics | Public Finance |
Statistics for Economics (* - Lab Included)
MOOCs - Machine Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI - Coursera

COMPETITION/CONFERENCE
• Ranked 3627 among 72000+ participants on Kaggle by achieving Mean Absolute Error of 15,774.96 on test data set
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
• Secured a rank in the top 2.30% in Joint Entrance Exam Mains 2020 among 15L students across India
• Amongst the top 1.47% of 1.5L students who appeared for the Andhra Pradesh EAMCET examination in 2020
• Amongst the top 1.35% of 1.2L students who appeared for the Telangana State EAMCET examination in 2020
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Part of Health and Fitness unit in National Sports Organisation (NSO), participated in yoga, meditation
sessions in 2020-2022
• Actively participated in Diwali illumination and Rangoli work of Sarojini Naidu/Indira Gandhi Hall
•Part of the Basketball Team of Sarojini Naidu Indhira Gandhi Hall of Residence, participated in
tournaments and practice sessions in 2022-2023

!Self declared by the student, CDC could not verify the relevant documents