Anchal Lamba Email & Phone Number

United States

Mountain View, California, United States

• Investigated data transparency from eight California counties by collecting COVID-19 related data for incarcerated populations via the Public Records Act; contributed to one of the first COVID-19 dashboards for.
• Built one of the first public datasets of infection, testing, and vaccination rates in California; pulled, cleaned, and merged data from three California Department of Public Health (CDPH) sources
• Discovered that the CDPH inaccurately uses stagnant 2020 population counts for the entire pandemic, overstating their vaccination rates to major news outlets and publications today

• Surveyed 600+ students to gauge the prevalence of food insecurity and barriers to on-campus food resources among the undergraduate student population
• Presented findings and policy recommendations to ASUCD using Tableau dashboards, delivering the first one in the committee’s history; prompted the ASUCD Pantry to establish mobile pantry access around campus for.

• Drove reconciliation of daily network activity reports by analyzing and resolving interchange, chargeback, and representment discrepancies, saving $100k+/month for the company; automated daily discrepancy analysis.
• Automated invoice email delivery for 100+ clients, saving 4+ hours/day of manual efforts
• Converted daily card network data files into mapped csv outputs for internal company use, such as building client-based dashboards and tracking fraudulent activity
• Assisted the CEO by automating fraud, transaction, and reversal payments ad-hoc reports for merchant partners, saving 2+ hours/day of manual efforts and achieving quarterly insights for company presentations

• Directed a team of five members to foster the data science community on campus via open, informational events for all experience levels
• Hosted professional industry speaker events from IBM, Facebook, LinkedIn, GoodData, etc. for 100+ members
• Drove collaborations with on-campus organizations for data talks, technical workshops, and networking events

• Advised 100+ undergraduate students on course selection, major/minor requirements, general academic planning, and helpful department resources and policies

• Investigated written communication among self-governing communities such as Minecraft, World of Warcraft, and Reddit by researching T5, BERT, and TFIDF rule-type classifiers for computational analysis
• Trained the T5 small classifier for passive/active voice conversion using the Simple Transformers Hugging Face wrapper
• Feature engineered TFIDF into the BERT model and classified institutional statements on labeled Reddit data; increased average model accuracy score from 0.82 to 0.89

Davis, California, United States

• Participated in the curriculum development for PLS 021 "Computers In Technology," as well as assisted students during lab instruction and office hours
• Taught lessons and held review sessions for students in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and R

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Statistics

Activities and Societies: Davis Data Science (External Affairs), Prytanean Women's Honor Society, Women in Data (Data Analytics.

High School Diploma • California State Seal Of Biliteracy

Activities and Societies: Interact club (President), UNICEF club (Fundraising Commissioner), Spanish club (Upper Grade Representative).