Krishna Aswani

**** ***, *** **, ***************, VA, 22903 434-***-**** acor8e@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/krishnaaswani

E DUCATION

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA May 2015

Master of Science: Data Science – Cumulative GPA 3.92

Related Coursework- Machine Learning, Applied Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Linear Models, Statistical

Computing & Visualization, Ethics of Big Data, Applied Time Series, Capstone Project

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – (BHU), Varanasi, India May 2012

Bachelor of Technology: Mechanical Engineering, 2nd rank out of 72

S KILLS

Programs: Python (proficient), R (proficient), MongoDB (familiar), SAS, SQL, Hadoop(familiar), Hive(familiar), Pig,

Tableau, Excel

Techniques: Text Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Web Scraping, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics

R ELEVANT E XPER IENCE

Business Analyst, Hansa Cequity, Mumbai, India March - June 2014

Increased mobile banking penetration by 9% for an Indian private bank compared to industrial average of 4%, by

identifying key features using business insights and implementing a model to target relevant customers

Developed a self-updating Customer Relationship Management dashboard to track contactibility, inquiries, referrals

and conversions, reducing work load of 28 employees by 14%

Assistant Manager, Tata Motors Ltd, Lucknow, India August 2012 - March 2014

Assisted in maintaining productivity on a stagnant value by analyzing slowdown in demand using Tableau and R, by

varying temporary work force and by initiating periodic block closures

Saved $1.17 million by implementing a 5 day working model (first location to implement across Tata Motors India)

Managed assets worth $5 million, resulting in best employee performance rating

Sponsored Researcher, University of Oxford-Mathematical Institute, Oxford, UK May - July 2013

Worked with Sir Roger Penrose to explore information travelling pattern inside microtubule using deterministic models

Research Intern, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan May - July 2011 & Dec - Jan. 2012

Developed a user interface system in LabVIEW, to forecast information travelling pattern inside nano devices. Also,

built drivers for Keithley-6487 voltmeter to work along with LabVIEW

A NALYT ICS P ROJ ECTS A T U NIVERS ITY O F V IR GIN IA

Visual Analytics in Healthcare Jan. – Mar. 2015

Map reduce frameworks in hadoop, mongodb along with multiprocessing using pandas dataframes in python was

used to process huge datasets efficiently.

Output of total referral per doctor for each county was displayed graphically on an interactive map using javascript.

Capitol Bike Share Usage Analysis Aug. – Dec. 2014

Bike share data of past two years was used to forecast demand. Heat map gave the most insight among visualizaions.

Regression model and time series model were tried and compared due to seasonality in data

Crime Pattern vs Population of Denver July – Aug. 2014

Identified prominent patterns between crime rate for the past 5 years and different population attributes in Denver

city based on 2010 census data

Tools and techniques used as exploratory data analysis, sql, python and web scrapping

P UBLIC AT IONS, R ECO GN IT ION & A C TIV ITIES

Design of a brain like computer: a new class of frequency-fractal computing: Information Journal (Ref: info5010028)

Vice-President of Graduate Engineer Trainee Club Tata Motors Ltd 2013-2014

Achieved 3825 rank in prestigious IIT-JEE Exam and was placed among top 1% of 400,000 students 2008

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