Hi, My name is Shrey Arora. I'm pursuing MS in Statistics and Data Science from University of Arizona, Tucson. I have 3 years of demonstrated work experience in advanced analytics, machine learning and data engineering roles in e-commerce and fin-tech industries. I have a background in Electrical Engineering with bachelors in engineering from Thapar University, India. Other interests and hobbies include hiking, playing football, writing poems, playing the keyboard and producing music.
Aug 2015 – May 2019
Relevant Courses
GPA : 7.62/10
Aug 2022 – May 2024
Relevant Courses
GPA : 3.56/4
Graduate Teaching Assistant at department of Physics and Atmospheric Sciences. I taught PHYS 240 Electricity and Magnetism and took lab sessions for two sections
Data Engineering Intern
Aug 2023 – Dec 2023
Analyst - Risk & Info Management
Aug 2023 – Dec 2023
Business Intelligence Analyst
Sep 2020 – Sep 2021
Data Scientist
Jun 2019 – Sep 2020
Created an AI enabled Pac-Man agent to optimize decision making in live game . Implemented agents using search algorithms like Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, A* ,minimax, expectimax and reinforcement learning (Q-Learning) to make pacman learn through trial and error. Designed better evaluation functions to ensure better in-game performance.
Trained a bidirectional neural network on Youtube comments data that inputs given text and predicts whether any of the given emotions are present: admiration, amusement, gratitude, love, pride, relief and remorse. Used hugging face's Roberta-Base tokeniser and pre-trained model to add embeddings in the model that achieved 84% macro f1 score on test-set.
Modeled the click-through rates for mobile advertising. Large imbalanced dataset was analyzed, and resampling techniques were deployed with different classification methods to minimize class imbalance. The model was optimized and hypertuned to achieve an 82% f1 score with XGBoost.
You can reach me at: shreyarora@arizona.edu