PRAKRITI BARUA | 20MA20043

MATHEMATICS & COMPUTING (M.Sc. 5Y)

EDUCATION
Year Degree/Exam Institute CGPA/Marks
2025 M.SC(5YR) IIT Kharagpur 7.07 / 10
2020 Higher Secondary(+2) SBH School,Tripura Board of Higher Secondary Education 85.00%
2018 Senior Secondary SBH School,Tripura Board of Higher Secondary Education 92.60%
INTERNSHIPS AND PROJECTS
United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP)| Innovation Strategy Intern| Delhi July'24-Sept'24
Objective: Constructing strategic framework to enhance crop & climate resilience information for farmers through use of digital tools
•Developed framework that enhances crop yield through real-time crop analysis and enables precise assessments of crop conditions
•Applied time-series forecasting on farming data and integrated ML models to automate insights leading to 27% increase in user adoption
•Designed applications for offline accessibility, enabling critical services to reach underserved communities during emergency situations
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation|Business Analyst Intern| Delhi May'24-June'24
Objective: Development of strategies to optimize Bihaan app, enhancing agricultural decision-making for nodal officials and farmers
•Developed an interactive dashboard with live data integration using custom SQL queries to connect and analyze the government datasets
•Identified key performance indicators that improved decision-making, leading to a 20% increase in the efficienct use of agricultural dataset
•Optimized reporting processes using automated workflows, cutting analysis time by 40% and enabling real-time monitoring of agriculture
Piramal Group|CEO's Office Intern|Mumbai Dec'23-Feb'24
Objective: Enhance financial planning and analysis to optimize funding acquisition and strategise initiatives for sustainable growth
•Improved capital allocation by 15% through ROI analysis using advanced modeling to optimize resources for $10M worth project launch
•Refined funding and acquisition strategies with enhanced forecasting accuracy using multivariate regression for the Piramal Foundation
•Collaborated with cross-functional teams for strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment of organizational goals with optimal resource division
Indian School of Business|Prof Hemanth Guthala|Hyderabad Apr'22-May'22
Objective:Extract actionable insights from agricultural production data, facilitating strategic decision-making for production sector
•Collected 20 years' agricultural production data from Govt. sources,handled missing values with mean imputation & z-score normalization
•Performed EDA by applying correlation analysis, ANOVA and clustering techniques for identification of trends and eliminate outlier in data
•Applied linear regression and ARIMA time series modeling for validation, generating statistically robust insights for precise report synthesis
HP|Business Analytics & Venture Capital Intern|California Dec'22-Jan'23
Objective: Evaluation of startups to recommend on high-potential investments for HP Tech Ventures’ AI and innovation portfolio
•Researched 200 startups focusing on product differentiation and strategy metrics and identified 7 potential ventures for further analysis
•Performed multivariate regression in RStudio to uncover key startup funding drivers and enhanced decision-making effectiveness by 25%
COMPETITION/CONFERENCE
University of Birmingham|Prof.Duc Pham|Birmingham July'22-Aug'22
Presented research on the application of the Bees Algorithm to optimization problems at the BAA 2022, University of Birmingham
•Optimized disassembly sequence plans to address precedence constraints and disassembly directions for enhancing operational efficiency
•Performed statistical analysis on the optimized plans, applying both parametric and non-parametric tests to determine optimal parameters
ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCES
Growth Lead|Groflex ERP|California Jan'24-Aug'24
•International Market Expansion: Led market entry in 15+ countries, driving 30% YoY customer growth using market localization strategy
•Innovative Growth Strategies: Executed strategies to optimize product offerings and enhanced buyer engagement using analytics
COURSEWORK INFORMATION
Probability and Statistics|Optimization Techniques in Finance|Design & Analysis of Algorithms |AI & ML |Mathematical Modelling |Big Data
Analysis |File Organization and Database Systems |Financial Mathematics |Economics |Stochastic Processes and Applications |Regression
& Time Series Analysis |Entrepreneurship Essentials |Statistics Software Lab|Applied Computational Methods|Modelling & Simulation Lab|
SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
Programming Languages: Python |R |SQL |MATLAB |C| Software &Tools: Tableau|Power BI|Advanced Excel |MySQL|Google Colab
|Libraries &Frameworks: NumPy |Pandas |Matplotlib |Seaborn | Scikit-learn |TensorFlow |Keras |PyTorch|StatsModels|NLTK
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Second Senate Member| Institute Senate,IIT Kharagpur Aug'23-Aug'24
•Represented the diverse interests and concerns of over 15,000 students at the Institute Senate, effectively communicating their needs
•Managed and allocated an annual budget of INR 2.2 Crore for student halls, ensuring judicious use of funds and financial transparency
Associate Manager|Entrepreneurship Cell,IIT Kharagpur May'21-Dec'21
•Chaired a team of 80+ members to organize GES 2022, and supervised the publicity of GES that led to a 26% YoY increase in participation
•Organized Empresario 2021-22 - a business model competition with prize money worth 5 million INR and participation of 2000+ startups
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Volunteer:Volunteering with Oxfam India, coordinating social impact initiatives and community engagement through digital platforms
Captaincy:Teamed up with 20 members for the Data Analytics Championship during the General Championship 2023 at TSG, IIT KGP
Alumni Affairs: Spearheaded Team of 10 Secretaries & managed Portfolio Budget of INR 70K towards Farewell & Convocation of Alumni
Department Representative: Served as member of Placement Committee'22 ensuring successful placement process for 2200+ students
!Self declared by the student, CDC could not verify the relevant documents