Mahi Shah Email & Phone Number

United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Collaborating with industry partner and a team of 5 students on a nine-month practicum project.
• Developing an adversarial debiasing (a bias mitigation technique) prototype for CGLMs to asses model fairness on credit underwriting in insurance and financial services.
• Leveraging open source packages like AIF360 and Fairlearn in Python.
• Brainstorming novel ideas in R to enforce model fairness for an array of models by building prototypes from scratch and assessing the stability and practicality of said ideas.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Served as the Deputy Team Lead for the APAC Global Data team, coordinating projects and aligning team goals across offices in Mumbai, Tokyo, Singapore, and Japan.
• Ensured efficient communication and effective collaboration with stakeholders across regions including AMER, APAC, and EMEA.
• Fostered an inclusive and open environment, encouraged sharing of ideas and best practices among team members, which led to innovative solutions and a cohesive team dynamic.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Automated an operational calculation by leveraging pywin32 and bloomberg terminal functions that increased accuracy by 33.4% and reduced manual effort from 3 hours to ~ 15 seconds per month.
• Developed interactive dashboards on Qlik Sense, that analyzed 40+ strategic KPIs.
• Transformed unstructured data into functional data models by ingesting data from a combination of APIs, Hive QL databases and CSVs that reduced overall memory utilization and increased shared Qlik environment.
• Facilitated users with timely and accurate answers on any financial data on the terminal, had the highest resolve rate in the APAC team.
• Accolades: Awarded ‘India Data Rookie of the Year 2022-23’ by senior leadership in APAC for exemplary work as a new hire.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Enhanced the risk management offering to account for advanced scenario modelling and proprietary client investment calculations

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Served as the dedicated quant for 5 AMCs (~combined AUM 12.5B+). Had a 100% POC conversion rate.
• Automated ingestion proprietary R scripts to fetch client’s portfolio holdings from SFTPs and integrated it with financial data from FactSet, MSCI & Wolfe via APIs to calculate and decompose risk and return metrics.
• Worked with CIOs, portfolio managers and traders to implement customized toolkits on Spotfire to optimize their investment process and leverage technology in each step of the investment cycle by aiding them in mapping.
• Converted 45+ tedious API pulls to simpler and quicker function extractions to structure data from large FactSet datasets.
• Implemented a system to instantly ingest price targets from client’s spreadsheets by creating a custom function in R and collaborating with backend developers to create an excel plug-in. This product generated.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Employed fundamental analysis to evaluate select equities across 5 sectors of National Stock Exchange to support asset management decisions.
• Calculated expected returns using the Black Litterman Model and crafted detailed documentation to enhance workflow efficiency.

Master Of Science - Ms, Machine Learning & Data Science

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Applied Statistics And Analytics, 3.99/4.00

Activities and Societies: Served as Administration Head for 2019-20 - Managed a team of 17 members across 24 cultural and sports events.

Indian School Certificate [Isc], 96.8%

Activities and Societies: Jamnabai Adolescent Mentor [a peer mentoring program] that entailed promoting healthy intrapersonal.

The Indian Certificate Of Secondary Education [Icse], 95.6%

Activities and Societies: An active member of the Student Council for 3 years, part of the Gymnastics team for 5 years, acted as a.