Building voice agents to revolutionise customer engagement for e-commerce brands

Student guides are the first points of contact for freshmen and it is a unique system that helps new students settle into the new environment of college. In addition to aiding the transition of freshmen, student guides help conduct the Orientation program, a week-long event which aims at familiarising the new students with the processes of college and getting them up and running to start a new life.

I was responsible for helping students gain clarity in first year Mathematics courses. I helped organise remedial classes for large groups addressing frequently encountered roadblocks. Tutoring students on an individual basis to address specific issues related to the subject was also part of my responsibility

Vox Populi is the campus journalism body of IIT Kanpur and responsible for representing the views of a campus population of 8000 including faculty and students. It has a footprint on both digital (www.voxiitk.com) and print media, regularly publishing articles on the website and a semester print edition.As the Chief Editor of the media body I undertake the following tasks :- Supervise a group of 40 upcoming journalists to cover pertinent campus and student issues- Oversee ideation, execution and publication of articles for both online and print formats- Organise and conduct interviews with eminent personalities during campus events- Try to increase the reach among the campus community by organising events like Campus Dialogue where stakeholders gather to discuss relevant issuesMy biggest achievement till now in this role has been the successful day to day multimedia coverage of the Inter IIT Sports meet which saw participation from over 2000 participants from 15 IITs.Also, publishing of two print editions within a span of 5 months is an achievement that I take pride in. It was after a long hiatus that even a single print publication was created by the body.

As an intern at UpGrad, I was tasked with reviewing current course pedagogy and suggesting improvements in ongoing teaching practices. I was also responsible for designing an introductory programming course, as a prerequisite for a more complex module to follow. I followed the following methodology to do the same : - Consolidated 650 research papers by identifying leading academic journals by median h-index - Formulated 7 categories of contemporary research in online learning for classification of papers- Catalogued research papers according to the conceived categories and summarised key findingsAt the end of the project, I had derived over 30 implementable changes in pedagogy for subsequent approval and execution.

The Students' Senate is the highest legislative body run by the students. Each year 6 senators are elected by a batch of 800 students to represent their views and act as a link between the administration and students. During my tenure as Senator, I was a member of the Rules and Procedures Committee which is responsible for modifying the students’ gymkhana constitution.

Basel Regulations and Credit Risk Management :- Analysed Value at Risk, Expected Shortfall and blueprints for calculating Risk Weighted Assets- Implemented Merton’s Model in R and examined other credit risk models like Moody’s KMV, CreditMetricsBankruptcy Exemption for Repo Markets :- Explored regulations that guide repo market borrowing and restrictions on liquidation of assets during bankruptcy- Developed a MATLAB based numerical simulation of a model for funding liquidity and bankruptcy exemption

-Worked in an early stage startup, responsible for the operations of the novel vertical of hyperlocal tea delivery-Designed workflows for improving efficiency inside delivery outlets for a workforce of 20+ employees-In the absence of existing solutions, built rudimentary tracking model to optimise delivery performance-Scouted for new locations for expansion based on socio economic profile of the population