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 Serve as liaison between Analytical & Institutional Effectiveness and Global Engagement (GE) to facilitate the transmission and analysis of institutional data between the two university entities. Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis of Virginia Tech related news Article in collaboration with Elsevier Network Analysis for Scholarly Collaboration. Knowledge transfer to two of the newly hired Data Engineer and Data Scientist. Implemented Airflow Cluster in AWS for daily refresh of databases which feed to various dashboards. Proof of Concept – Apache Hudi on AWS EMR

 Re-engineered student census process from legacy SQR and SAS script to Pyspark (improved ETL process by 10 times) Used amazon web services to pipeline and analyze student credit hour, research, philanthropy and enrollment data.

 Extensively used Python, R, Secured Cloudera Hadoop Ecosystem Services , SQL and Linux. Performed Exploratory Data Analysis of IRS 990 data, Student Loan data & Health care drug data Built google-playstore web-crawler and Github Trending Scraper with data pipelining and EDA . Implemented Flume fail-over and load balancing. Implemented Spark RDD transformation & action, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming and Spark Mlib Protein Research data load to Hbase

 Analyzed and interpreted high volume of electron data from laser experiment using Matlab and Python routines. Simulated, Designed and Automated electron time of flight spectrometer. Implemented Genetic Algorithm and Sequential Search to optimize the electron time of flight. (link) Used extensively Fourier transform, linear & non-linear equations, statistics & calculus to analyze & model electron data

Ms In Business Intelligence And Analytics

Ms Physics (Atomic Molecular Optics)

M.Sc. Physics( Electronics Minor)--May 2010

B.Sc. Physics (Computer Sc. & Math Minor)--May 2008