Gauri G Menon

Junior Undergraduate Email: gaurigm20@iitk.ac.in

Department of Biological Sciences and Bio Engineering Phone: +91-9676904465
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Academic Qualifications
Year Degree/Certificate Institute CPI/%
2020 - Present B.Tech Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 7.9/10
2020 TSBIE(XII) FIITJEE Saifabad 94%
2018 CBSE(X) Army Public School, Bolarum 95.6%
Technical Skills
• Languages: C, C++, Python, SQL, R, LATEX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript
• Packages: Numpy, VTK, Pandas, Matplotlib, Plotly, Streamlit, SciPy, Scikit-learn, Seaborn
• Other Tools: AWS(Amazon Web Services), Psychopy, Paraview, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint
Key Projects
• Exploratory Data Analysis and Modelling § Self project (April’23-May’23 )
– Employed Data cleaning, Feature transformation(Log, Boxcox), Feature scaling on Breast Cancer Dataset with scipy
– Performed feature encoding, and fit a polynomial regression on Global Poverty dataset using sklearn
– Analysed Global Energy Sources GeoJSON data through variable transformation and Choropleth map visualization
– Derived multiple feature correlations through Seaborn and performed PCA on World Health Data
– Conducted hypothesis testing using t,p,Chi-squared and ANOVA statistical tests on Customer Churn data
• Big Data Visual Analytics § Mentor: Prof Soumya Dutta(Course Project) (Jan’23-April’23 )
– Visualized crop production statistics and rainfall correlation with a dashboard created using streamlit
– Interactive visualization tools(racing bar plots, choropleth maps) were implemented with plotly and ipywidgets packages
– Used VTK package on Python and Paraview software for Isocontour and Volume Rendering algorithms
• Data analysis of Description-Experience Gap § Mentor: Prof A. Ramakrishnan (Jan’23-April’23 )
– Conducted the replication and extension studies of a research report on DE gap and performed data visualisation
– Fit a sigmoid activation function to choice data and performed linear regression on the indifference points
• Consult school § Mentor: 180 Degrees Consulting, IIT Madras (Sept’22- Nov’22 )
– Developed four case studies for hypothetical companies in FinTech, Electric Vehicles, Insurance and FMCG industries
– Performed extensive secondary market research on electric vehicle market and developed market entry strategies
– Consulting for sustainable practices in FMCG chains and predictive analysis for the life insurance market in India
• COVID Vaccine-Hesitancy Analysis § Mentor: Prof Braj Bhushan (March’23-April’23 )
– Vaccine-hesitancy pattern analysis in age and gender groups using matplotlib and pandas
• Music in Foraging § Mentor: Prof A. Ramakrishnan (Jan’22- Aug’22 )
– A 1-D foraging game was developed using HTML/CSS, JavaScript and AWS and performed t-tests
Work Experience
• Project associate, Center for Creative Learning, IIT Gandhinagar (Nov’22-Dec’22 )
– Member of the core team for ideation and management of a STEM show for Doordarshan(National Television)
– Conduction of workshops for mentoring teachers from UP and Madhya Pradesh to incorporate innovative teaching practices
Relevant Courses * Online courses
Exploratory data analysis* Supervised Machine Learning*
Big Data Visual Analytics Mathematics for Computer Science
Fundamentals of Computing Introduction to Game Theory
Bioinfomatics and Computational Biology* Introduction to Economics
Positions of Responsibility
• Founding Member, BSBE Department Society (2023-present)
– Founded a society of 200+ participants and organized 6 summer projects for the junior batches jointly with the dept
– Coordinated 5 verticals to accelerate the growth and establish the brand of the society in IITK and among alumni
• Secretary, Music Club, Media and Cultural Council IIT Kanpur (2021-2022 )
– Organised a 10-day Indian Classical Music workshop, and Musical Extravaganza attended by 1400+ students
• Core Group Member, Vox Populi, IIT Kanpur (2021-2022 )
– Drafted journalistic articles pertaining to administrative decisions and conducted student activity surveys and studies
• Secretary, English Literary Society, Media and Cultural Council, IIT Kanpur (2021-2022 )
– Organised and anchored the Freshers’ Night 2020 attended by 1000 students and took auditions for the same
Scholastic Achievements
• Secured AIR-8488 in JEE Advanced 2020 and AIR-214 in UGEE conducted by IIIT Hyderabad
• Selected for SURGE’22 program for summer research among applicants across India