Contact
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Ankit Kumar Saw
[email protected] Quantitative Trader | Senior Data Scientist | Financial Mathematics,
NCSU | IIT Kharagpur
www.linkedin.com/in/ankitsaw
New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Top Skills Summary

NumPy Actively seeking summer 2023 internship opportunities in
Leadership Quantitative Research and Trading !!
Android Development
- Over 5 years of Programming and Machine Learning experience,
Certifications Built production level Data Science products in Python, C++, SQL
Machine learning - Strong passion in quantitative research and quantitative trading,
Data Analysis Built uniquely profitable trading strategies & Passed FRM Level l
Neural Networks and Deep Learning - Published 5 research paper in top tier Artificial Intelligence
conferences AAAI, NAACL, ECAI, ASONAM
Honors-Awards - Co-founder of ViralMeme Technologies, Built a social Media app for
Runners-up position in EXL building the Memer community in India
Excellence Quotient 2014

Publications
Experience
Beauty lies in the face of the
beholder: a Bi-channel CNN
North Carolina State University
architecture for attractiveness
modeling in matrimony Graduate Student
August 2022 - Present (1 month)
Word Polysemy Aware Document
Vector Estimation Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Improving Document Classification

with Multi-Sense Embeddings
William O'Neil + Co., Inc.
P-SIF: Document Embeddings using
Algorithmic Trader
Partition Averaging
April 2022 - July 2022 (4 months)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Implemented Factored Research of various Technical indicators such as

Moving Averages, Directional Moving Indicator (DMI) and Average Directional
Movement Index (ADX), Relative Strength Index (RSI) Divergence and Tax
loss Harvesting in Python and SQL
• Generation and amalgamation of performance reports of technical indicators
for over 1450 United states equities
• Researched and read over 20 research paper & brainstormed valuable
trading strategies

Info Edge India Ltd

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4 years 7 months

Senior Data Scientist

March 2019 - July 2022 (3 years 5 months)
• Consistent Top performer of Data Science team of 30 people, Achieved
Outstanding and Excellent Ratings
• Built end-to end Data Science Products such as recommendation engines,
pricing models, monetization models with target improvement of at least 20%
in product metrics for Jeevansathi, India’s 2nd Largest matrimony website
• Developed a Machine Learning model with user activities, profile and partner
preferences, improved the acceptance rate by 23% and platform interaction by
27% with catboost model in Python
• Implemented a Bi-channel CNN architecture for attraction modelling,
published research in IEEE/ACM conference
• Implemented Random Forest Model for delivering better pricing and
discounts for renewed customer base, which enhanced the customer retention
by 13% and revenue by 10% with target encoding & SHAP feature selection
• Developed a statistical model for total hiring by recruiter using Search and
Job data on Naukri Platform

Data Scientist
January 2018 - March 2019 (1 year 3 months)
Noida Area, India

Self-employed
Trader
August 2020 - May 2021 (10 months)
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Devised automated trading strategies using moving average, bollinger bands,

ketlner channel on nifty 10 years data
• Achieved sharpe ratio of 2 and backtested return of more than 40% on Nifty
and bank nifty future indices
• Deployed the strategies on AWS cloud & Strengthened the result with monte
carlo simulation & backtesting

ViralMeme
Co-founder & CEO
May 2019 - July 2020 (1 year 3 months)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led a team of 11 people to develop a social media android app which captured
40,000+ users for building a memer community in India, enabling memer to
create, share & enjoy memes
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Innoplexus
Associate Data Scientist
May 2016 - September 2017 (1 year 5 months)
Pune Area, India

Two Layer Webpage Classification and integration with universal Crawler

►Classification of Internet Webpages into pharmaceutical & Non-
Pharmaceutical Webpages. ►Classification of Pharma webpages into profile,
forums, blogs, events, news & publications pages.
►Implemented Hirearchical Attention network HAN-LSTM network model in
tensorflow & BOW Tf-idf SVM model, got an accuracy of 92.3%, precision of
97% and recall of 86% in LSTM model.
►Developed Crawling-Engine that can do n-depth/breadth crawling by
Selenium & Scrapy/Splash.

Virtue Analytics
Analyst
December 2015 - February 2016 (3 months)
Kharagpur Area, India

niki.ai
Internship
May 2015 - July 2015 (3 months)
Development of Natural Language Processor for Information Extraction from
Food Order Queries
► Developed a Next-Word prediction Algorithm, based on N-gram Language
model with Adaptive learning in R programming
► Developed a Named Entity Recognition which extracts food, quantity, and
specifications from Food order queries in Java
► Scrapped the food menu, restaurants name, from an online food ordering
website for creating dictionary and made N-grams
► Created a dictionary of n-grams of food menu, food ingredients, food-adverb
which helps in tagging of food order query

Mentored-Research
Financial Analyst
September 2014 - November 2014 (3 months)
►Studied Technical Analysis, Ratio Analysis, Fundamental Analysis, Valuation
Analysis of Apple Inc. company from 2010 to 2015
►Evaluated target price of $119.37 by FCFE method and also honoured with
“best valuation Analysis in ERI history”

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IL&FS Energy Development Company Limited

Business Analyst
May 2014 - July 2014 (3 months)
Project Tittle
Review of performance of Discoms of Rajasthan state and recommendations
for improvement

Award
►Achieved excellent(10/10) grade on Internship-evaluation

Overview
►Analysis of consumption and access & efficiency data for the last four years
2010-14
►Analysis of the regulatory system performance and evaluated the drawbacks
in their past decisions

Contribution
►Modelled the relationship between weightage factors of various Indicator for
effective performance
►Given Model for the effective correlation of demand and supply with taken
into consideration of median load
►Prepared a dashboard of their past performance and given model to increase
Profit from -10% to 10%
►Converted tariff of No-profit to 10% profit with changes in minor terms

Gopali Youth Welfare Society

Co-ordinator
July 2013 - April 2014 (10 months)
►Led a team of 100 students for improving the living standards of people and
providing free education to underprivileged children of Gopali
►Co-ordinator Yogdaan-2013, Managed to collect INR 1.42 lakhs from KGP
students for buying a land of 3 Lakh for the construction of School
►Manager Yogdaan-2014, Managed to collect INR 2 lakhs for 2014 from KGP
students for construction of Jagriti Vidya Mandir School
►Led the team in Alumni Meet-2013, Managed to get sponsorship INR 80,000
for 50 underprivileged children for their education

Tata Steel
Summer Trainee
May 2013 - June 2013 (2 months)

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Project Tittle
Conversion of Manual arrangement to Auto-Mechanised arrangement of
Impact testing Machine

Overview
►Analysis of Safety of Machine conditions and study of proper arrangement for
working and Non-working conditions
►Analysis of Impact testing Machine for Non-Constrained Movement over the
area provided

Contribution
►Modelled Auto-mechanised arrangement of Impact testing Machine.
►Invented two models named Screw-Jack Model and Belt-Pulley Model
►Screw-Jack model was installed in the TATA Steel company due to its
reduction in min. 20% force requirements

Gopali Youth Welfare Society

Head, School Review Committee
July 2012 - April 2013 (10 months)
►Co-ordinated with a team of 10 teachers for running a school Jagriti vidya
mandir which provides free education to 180 students
►Successfully conducted Annual program of Jagriti Vidya Mandir, awareness
programs, MGNREGA rally, health camp in Salua village

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Secretary Technology, Radhakrishnan Hall of Residence
July 2012 - April 2013 (10 months)
►Carried out regular meeting practice sessions and managed the participation
of the Hall in the General Championship Technology
►Co-ordinated with a team of 12 members and managed budget of Rs. 50,000
in hardware modelling, which won the gold medal

Education
North Carolina State University
Master's degree, Financial Mathematics · (August 2022 - December 2023)

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Master of Technology - MTech, Industrial Engineering and
Management · (June 2015 - June 2016)
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Manufacturing Science & Engineering · (July
2011 - June 2015)

FRM, GARP, USA

Risk Management, Finance · (2014 - 2017)

Rajkamal Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Dhanbad

High School, Science · (2009 - 2011)

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