PALLAV ANAND

400 Nagle Street, College Station, TX 04pallav@gmail.com

+1-206-466-9707
EDUCATION
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA Aug 2015-May 2017
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering GPA: 3.9/4.0 with Instate Scholarship.
Courses: Engineering Data Analysis, Linear & Non-Linear Optimization, R and its Big Data Applications and Multivariate Data Analysis.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Roorkee) India May 2010-May 2014
Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, First Division Merit Scholar
CORE COMPETENCIES
Programming: R, Python, SQL, AMPL/CPLEX, SAS, Simio, LINUX, Bash
Data Visualization: Tableau, ggplot2, Matplotlib
Statistics and Machine Learning: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, SVM, Boosting,
Neural Networks, K-Means, Hierarchical Clustering, kNN
WORK EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant Jan 2016-Present
Instructor for the graduate level course Engineering Data Analysis providing graduate students regular guidance and feedback on
assignments and tests.
Data Scientist Co-op, Danaher Labs, Santa Clara, CA Aug 2016-Dec 2016
Worked with a 3-member data analytics team providing insights and recommendations to Zurich based client company.
Predicted optimum inventory levels and forecasted future customer demand for six quarters using forecasting and time series
modeling in Python.
Determined customer retention rate using a random forest based model and designed and selected key features used for prediction.
Collaborated with sales and marketing teams and provided actionable insights which led to a saving of $3,400,000 for the client.
Optimization Intern, Optimal Asset Management, Los Altos, CA June 2016-Aug 2016
Built predictive models to optimize financial returns and created financial portfolios using factor analysis dealing with highly
multi-collinear data using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) under constrained optimization.
Implemented risk management and mitigation techniques to reduce risk for portfolios.
Used R scripts to generate reports containing portfolio visualization and performance metrics.
Operations Engineer, Reliance Industries Limited July 2014 July 2015
Performed Assembly line balancing with the help of precedence diagram, RPW heuristic and reduced WIP by 17%.
Wrote MySQL scripts to extract data efficiently from databases and develop visualizations in R programming language.
Optimized the headcount on the shop floor based on overtime factor which helped in reducing the man hours requirement by 14%
Evaluated Suppliers on a technical basis for procurement of equipment and worked throughout the supply chain from
procurement to their installation.
Operations Intern, Reliance Industries Limited May, 2013-July, 2013
Developed framework for Supplier Management in Strategic Sourcing of spare parts considering multiple strategic and operational
factors
PROJECTS
Airline Delay Prediction April 2016 May 2016
Flight Delays with using previous flight history and weather data performing discrete event modeling and optimization in Apache
Spark using MLLib library.
Optimization of a Health Care Facility, Texas A&M University March 2016 April 2016
Simulated the operations of a health care center and determined the optimal number of resources required to minimize total
operational costs and reduce time taken per treatment, using OptQuest procedure in simulation software (Simio).
Production Planning and Shipping using AMPL/CPLEX, Texas A&M University October 2015December 2015
Modeled production planning, inventory planning and routing for a manufacturing company to determine the optimal number of
plants set up across Texas to maximize profit. Used Integer programming under various constraints and performed sensitivity
analysis to recommend changes to the allocated resources.
Data Science Project Group Leader Drug Repositioning using Microarray Data Analysis Jan 2016 April 2016
Worked on data cleaning, statistical analysis, modeling and testing of gene microarrays expression data using R programming in
LINUX environment, to detect target drugs potential indications to treat new diseases, based on drug-disease information obtained
from public databases.
CERTIFICATIONS
Advanced Databases and SQL Querying Udemy Course Certificate No UC-SXKMPL4V
Machine Learning in Python Udemy Course Certificate No UC-S22KPO0O
AWARDS
Merit scholarship with Full Fee waiver at IIT Roorkee (Undergraduate University)
Test score of 333 out of 340 in Graduate Record Examination(GRE)
Only student awarded In-state Scholarship among 140 students in Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University
Secured 99.66 percentile in All India Engineering Entrance Examination (1723 out of 500,000 students) in IIT-JEE 2010