Pragya Chauhan Email & Phone Number

Princeton, New Jersey

LIHEAP (Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program) Project• Partnered with LIHEAP state grantees' associates, enabling data collection & research to support program performance analysis, designing surveys to gauge assistance impact, and reporting• Transformed data collection pipelines by promoting an online data collection platform, providing technical support to stakeholders• Minimized review time by redesigning data validation processes using automated Stata programs & Excel to implement consistency checks, flag issues with relevant labels for expedited manual review, and communicated documented feedback to associates for fixing data inconsistencies• Conducted market research for measuring the scope of the program, designed survey strategies for gauging the LIHEAP program's quantitative impact, and mentored research assistants with strategies to drive the participant surveys achieving high & accurate response rates for participant surveys• Generated annual LIHEAP reports & data visualizations for measuring program performance in terms of reduction in energy burden, financial & administrative cost analysis, balance sheets of state grantees, heating/cooling crisis assistance analysis, and assisted household groups analysis• Consolidated various reports along with publicly available datasets (CPS & HUD data) to generate a one-page summary report and presented the findings to Congress as 'Home Energy Notebook'CSBG (Community Services Block Grant) Project• Documented data quality issues observed while cleaning the dataset and communicated them for knowledge sharing to OCS (Office of Community Services) stakeholders, along with presenting an improved training plan for best reporting practices, thus lifting dataset quality• Enabled reporting tools & visualization dashboards for OCS by hosting the high-quality dataset on the CSBG website for reporting insights on federal performance metrics, aiding informed decision-making & program efficiency

Pittsburgh, Pa, Usa

• Prospective student recruiting (answering emails, attending online and in-person events, calling admitted students if necessary, and related tasks).• Generating and writing content for the website and social media channels (student and alumni interviews, energy news, and related tasks).• Coordinate and attend EST&P events, campus energy-related events, and summarize EST&P student project presentations for a general audience.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Collected and compiled data on all business contacts for organization's customer relationship management system -ZOHO• Generated numerous reports via research, data evaluation, and analysis to help optimize Scott Institute's engagement and visibility among competing organizations.

Gurugram,Haryana, India

• Developed a MATLAB model to efficiently determine one of the crucial aspects (sag in the catenary wire)of substation design.• Presented the project proposal and the results of the analysis to the manager leading to animprovement in the design process.

Bhopal Area, India

• Trained in integrated power plant equipment manufacturing.• Examined Transformer manufacturing & testing under the professionals in the field.

Master'S Degree, Energy Science Technology & Policy, 3.71/4.00

Activities and Societies: • EST&P Ambassador • Graduate Student Assembly Representative

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 9.09/10

Activities and Societies: • Management Committee Lead @ Formula Student India SAE

High School, Science