ARPIT SINGH

Aerospace Engineering (Major)

Industrial Management (Minor), IIT KANPUR
+91-8840042456| arpitsingh063@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Year Degree/Exam Institute/Board CPI/Percentage
2018 B. Tech (IIT KANPUR) IIT KANPUR 7.5/10
2013 12th (Sr. Secondary, AISSCE) CBSE 91.2/100.0
2011 10th (Secondary, AISSE) CBSE 10.0/10.0
INTERNSHIPS
Data Scientist at Songline Analytics Pvt. Ltd.| Bengaluru, India (May’17 – Jun ‘17)
Aim: To create graph database from SQL database provided by client and find a suitable use case
• Compared various graph databases and decided to use GraphFrame
• Setup a new Azure Cluster solely for Spark and GraphFrame and built a recommendation system based on two parameters
• Built three versions of code using Spark (using graph functions) / Spark+Hive+Sqoop / Spark (without using graph functions)
• Compared them on the basis of processing time and plotted the resulting graph after importing it in Gephi
Marketing Executive Intern at TechEagle | IIT KANPUR (Dec’16)
• Responsible for search, contact and setting up meeting and seminars with colleges as potential client of the startup
• Interviewed and formed a group of Ambassadors in distant colleges and instructed them throughout their work

POSITION OF RESPONSIBILTIES
Manager, Hospitality Team, Techkriti’17 (Annual Technical Festival) (Aug’16 – Mar’17)
• Interviewed, formed and managed a group of 400 ambassadors and 8 Assistant Managers
• Overseer of registration process and hospitality of 2000 participants coming to IIT KANPUR
• Introduced competitions between ambassadors for the first time which helped significantly in publicity of the festival
• Ensured smooth and disciplined conduction of festival
Assistant Manager, Hospitality Team, Techkriti’16 (Annual Technical Festival) (Dec’15 – Mar’16)
• Assisted managers in managing ambassadors by getting work reports from them when required
• Handling of ground registration work and sorting queries of participants during festival
• Visited a nearby city to meetup with the schools and get participants from there
Senior Executive, Show Management, Antaragni’15 (Annual Cultural Festival) (Jul’15-Oct’15)
• Planned and oversaw stage management activities
• Ensured that the demands of other cells are met prior and during the festival
• Worked closely with Creative Cell to add to aesthetics and glamour of the festival

KEY ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery |IIT KANPUR (Prof. Faiz Hamid) (May-June, ’16)
Aim: To build a customer churn prediction model for Telecommunication Company
• Developed a predictive churn model in ‘R’ for a fictitious wireless telecom company Cell2Cell using Machine Learning
Techniques on a dataset of 71047 tuples and 79 attributes
• Identified the most important factors that drove Customer Churning by implementing linear regression, rough set theory,
decision tree algorithms and support vector machine
• Used insights from the above factors to suggest the retention offers to be made to High Churn Risk customers.
Computer Aided Decision System | IIT KANPUR (Prof. Deepu Philip) (Jan – April, ‘17)
Aim: To create an online version of Bank Account Opening form from the given paper form
• Drafted a wireframe after designing a more presentable and ‘easy to use’ sequence for the multipage form
• Created a 3N form database in SQL to store customer and bank’s data
• Built an interactive website for application and approval of form using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP

RELEVANT COURSES
• DATA SCIENCE: Data mining and knowledge discovery
• PROGRAMMING: Introduction to Computing, Data Structures#, Machine Learning#
• MANAGEMENT: Computer aided decision systems, Quantitative methods for decision making, E- supply chain
management
# Coursera
SKILLS
• Programming: C, C++, R, PHP, SQL, Python, Scala, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Technology: Spark, HIVE, Sqoop, Azure, Databricks
• Soft Skills: Leadership, Teamwork , Communication, Problem Solving