Himanshu Jagwani hj2391@columbia.edu ● (646)-646-2174 ● 616 W, 113rd Street, Apt 4F, NY, 10025

EDUCATION

Columbia University, New York City Master of Science in Operations Research Dec 2015 On-going Coursework: Introduction to Stochastic/ Deterministic Models, Global Capital Markets

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India B. Tech. (Honors) in Computer Science and Engineering Apr 2013 M. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 7.4/10.0 Apr 2013

GRE: 332/340, Quantitative Reasoning: 170/170, Verbal Reasoning: 162/170

IIT JEE - 2008: All India Rank (AIR) – 668, top 0.2%

Programming Languages & Tools: C++, SQL, R, MATLAB, MS-Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Flipkart.com Bangalore, India Graduate Trainee/ Data Scientist Jun 2013 – Jul 2014

Collaborated with the modeling and data intelligence team to build models using R and excel to calculate the

economic impact of using automated crawlers.

Performed key role in the management and analysis of projects carried out for website catalogue enhancement.

Established the process flow and provided directions to the involved teams, performed data analysis and selected

suitable bucketing for the A/B projects.

Communicated with the internal and external teams and automated the internal processes to realize faster

execution and reduce the turn around time.

Reuse Connection Washington, DC Software Intern May 2011 - Jul 2011

Worked with the founder, Mr. Ian Moise, to classify US households based on their energy consumption profile, using predictive models in R.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Awarded Merit Cum Means (MCM) Scholarship covering tuition fees for two years, (2009-10) and (2011-12).

Presented term papers on – o Coupled Normalized Databases: An Approach for temporal databases (Summer 2012). o Randomized fixed dimensional linear programming in linear time (Spring 2011).

B. Tech. & M. Tech. Project: Key Distribution and Security Issues in RFID based Systems o Devised possible attack on a proposed mutual authentication protocol for RFID devices. o Successfully performed cryptanalysis on two different mutual authentication protocols and formulated

a new mutual authentication protocol.

Online Courses: Statistical Inference, Regression Models, R Programming, Introduction to Finance

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Taught Mathematics and Science to underprivileged children as part of the National Social Service Program under the

guidance of Prof. Proshanta Guha, (2009-11).

Volunteered as Senior Hall coordinator, Student Welfare Group, (2011-13) supporting Counselling Centre at IIT.

Served as Department Representative, (2011-13): Responsible for Department and Placement co-ordination.

Elected as Joint Secretary, Social and Cultural Events, (2008-10): Responsible for managing cultural and social events at College.

Member of the Swimming team (2008-12), Water Polo team (2010-12).