ABHISHEK ANAND

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EDUCATION

Katz School of Science and Health, Yeshiva University Master of Science Candidate in Artificial Intelligence Sep 2022 – Dec 2023

New York, NY

Relevant Courses: Data Acquisition & Management; Computational Statistics & Probability; Numerical Methods Franklin and Marshall College

Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics & Economics

Lancaster, PA

Relevant Courses: Econometrics; Experimental Design; Statistics; Creativity; Innovation & Design: Problem Solving for the Future; Business Strategy; International Business; Marketing; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics SKILLS

Data Science/Analysis: SQL, Python, R, Excel Data Visualization/Dashboards: Excel, Python, R, Tableau, PowerBI WORK HIGHLIGHTS

Research Analyst

Industrial Economics, Incorporated

Oct 2019 – May 2022

Cambridge, MA (Remote)

• Developed the ETL pipeline to aggregate data from disparate governmental agency websites, in an effort to measure the impact of New York’s “green” infrastructure investments

Created the analytical framework, coding in R to clean, recode, manipulate, merge, and analyze resulting datasets across multiple green energy/investment sectors, providing descriptive and inferential statistics

Generated dashboards, visualizing time series trends and projections

Presented findings to various teams at NYSERDA due to relevance of findings to different areas of focus

Automated the data review process, saving NYSERDA hundreds of labor hours annually

• Queried and reshaped medical data; analyzed resultant data to assess over $70 million in adverse health impacts due to environmental and health negligence by a major U.S. Corp.

• Created financial models, after collating market and financial data from disparate sources, for multiple Fortune 500 companies

Generated dashboards depicting forward-looking financial metrics and, valuation of innovative and transitioning business segments

• Facilitated work product development for multiple projects, managing the workflow of 1-3 staff on three projects

effectively developed project work plan, managed project timeline and team workflow to provide clients with numerous written, visual, and verbal work products during projects’ lifetime Startup Program Manager and Attollo Fellow

Attollo Prep

Jan 2019 – Oct 2019

Lancaster, PA

• Identified shortcomings in the organization’s impact evaluation; designed five weekly surveys to assess programs’ outcomes for the participants; used results to advise management to iterate programming

• Oversaw launch of the MVP of a nonprofit startup idea (“Brighter Tomorrow”), helping develop the business model, and foster relationships with stakeholders and local philanthropists for fund-raising

• Designed the 3-month course to teach entrepreneurship through the organization’s Startup program Data Analyst

Restless Development

May 2018 – Aug 2018

Kathmandu, NP

• Analyzed four sets of survey data on 1,700 adolescents, with 1.6 million data points, to assess the impact of the 2-year and 3-month long health and education advocacy projects, finding significant growth in knowledge/awareness among participants

• Diagnosed a fundamental flaw in the survey decoding design and remedied analysis methods

• Prepared summary reports, with visualized data and project impact summaries for existing and future donors Market Research Analyst

Assets Lancaster

May 2017 – Aug 2017

Lancaster, PA

• Carried out primary research to distill the best practices of sustainable business management to help convince more local businesses to take a B Corp assessment to identify areas of sustainability (incl. ESG) improvements

• Designed a survey and interviewed 8 CEOs of Lancaster, PA businesses practicing sustainable business models to understand the motive behind their use of the triple-bottom-line of people, planet, and profit ABHISHEK ANAND

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• Produced a collection of 8 case studies and one analysis report, based on the interviews, charting a common thread across businesses and industries

• Analyzed key ESG metrics across participant SMEs to devise ways for clients to improve their ESG impact by undertaking efficient “low-cost, high-impact” actions across the ESG metrics set within the B Corp Framework CREATIVE PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

Local Government Consultant

Lancaster, PA Mayor Danene Sorace’s “Secure Incomes” Priority Jan 2019 – May 2019

Lancaster, PA

• Used design thinking process to empathize with stakeholders of the Mayor’s policy (people without Secure Incomes), define the problems that the Mayor and her team should tackle, ideate solutions to the problems, and develop prototype solutions to pilot/implement for the specified problems

• Prepared and delivered a PowerPoint presentation for the Mayor of Lancaster and her executive team regarding our findings and proposals for the Mayor’s Secure Incomes priority Project Manager and Founder

Beyond Casteism in Rural Nepal

May 2017 – Nov 2017

Janakpur, NP

• Observed a social problem in access to education among children belonging to “lower caste” in Nepal’s unofficial, yet predominant, social hierarchy

• Proposed, secured funding, and started a peace project in Janakpur, Nepal, to tackle this inequity through an after-school and summer program for kids aged 6-14 (grades 2-8) and increase student retention

• Recruited and trained three teaching-certified employees to help run the program and serve as mentors to students

• Led stakeholder engagement and partnerships with partner agencies, government, schools, parents, & teachers

• Helped 420 underserved students realize the value of education; increased retention to 92% (from ~60%) QUANTITATIVE PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

Experimental Design

• Designed a pilot, then a full experiment, to assess the effects of various variables in the loudness of whistles

Used ANOVA, two-way and three-way interactions, and pairwise contrasts/t-tests

Prepared a report titled “Whistle Experiment: Effects of Radius, Length and Height of Whistles on Whistle Loudness”

Econometrics

• Carried out regressions using Nepal’s 2011 Census Data to determine the effect of social variables on the wealth distribution/outcomes in Nepal

Relational Databases

• Queried and joined wildfires datasets from Kaggle and NASA to prepare analyzable resultant tables for wildfires predictions (using deep learning techniques) based on surface temperatures

• Queried, joined, and analyzed relational tables for a medical services firm to determine patient retention, and partner facility success rates

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