Raghav Kumar Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Gurgaon, India

•Developed models to estimate lending opportunity to Amex’s business clients using KNN & GBM algorithms•Handled data on 3MN+ businesses with Hadoop & Hive-SQL, aggregating bureau & firm specific variables•Implemented Principal Component Analysis for dimensionality reduction of 100+ variables used in models •Established better approach than the existing team standard by improving GINI score & model accuracy

India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

•Estimated month on month depletion of private wheat stocks as an early indicator of food inflation in India•Designed policy responses to keep food inflation in check, saving the exchequer $10MN in a bad harvest year

Ahmedabad Area, India

• Worked with RTERC - an IIM-A faculty - student initiative for social development• Compared laws on School Management Committees (SMCs) across Indian states• Studied compliance of SMC laws in Gujarat through field visits with researchers • Attended P.I.L. hearing on centralization of E.W.S. admissions in private schools• Conducted surveys to assess drinking water quality in Gujarat for a study by MIT

Master'S Degree, Economics, 1St Division (With Distinction)

Activities and Societies: Research, Dance, Debating, Volleyball Outstanding Performance for thesis project titled 'NOTA: The Choice.

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics, 1St Division

Activities and Societies: Content editor for Synergy magazine, Economics society, Debating Modules in Finance, Macroeconomics.

All India Senior School Certificate Examination(Aissce), 94.50%

Gold Medalist, distinction in Accountancy and Business Studies

All India Secondary School Examination(Aisse)

Activities and Societies: Acting, Music, Debating, Creative Writing, Model United Nations

Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: Dramatics, The Ultimate Frisbee, Basketball, Cricket, Table Tennis Received full scholarship to attend Talent.