Data Science Intern

Computational & Data Science R&D, Air Liquide America

Newark, DE, US

05/2023 - 08/2023
  • Key contributor to a fast-paced, short-term support to operations project to develop time-series forecasting models for predicting economic turning points based on key economic indicators and identify their impact on the company's KPIs

  • Spearheaded the development of end-to-end pipelines encompassing the entire data science ecosystem from scratch, including: Data Collection from open-source APIs, Data Cleaning and Preprocessing, Feature Engineering, Model Development, Hyperparameter Optimization, and Model Deployment

  • Developed independent time-series classification models for the next several months into the future, using direct multi-step forecasting, with accuracies of > 95% and f1-scores ranging from 65-80%

  • Developed a user-friendly real-time interactive dashboard for project stakeholders using Plotly Dash that conducts impact measurement sensitivity analyses simulations and displays updated forecasts under a minute

  • Tested and improved pipelines for personalized recommendation systems for efficient cloud deployment

Research & Development Intern

Arkema Inc.

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

05/2018 - 08/2018
  • Worked in the thiochemicals division on reviewing, designing, and analyzing a single colorimetric assay for simultaneous quantification of volatile sulfur compounds

  • Prepared sample solutions for each compound at different solution concentrations and different reaction times, and analyzed samples on microplate reader for correlation of absorbance with solution concentration

  • Performed analysis for possible interferences or bias in the presence of multiple target sulfur compounds

  • Acquired familiarity and experience with designing and executing experiments, comprehensive data analysis and technical writing

Process Engineering Intern

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions (TKIS)

Mumbai, India

05/2017 - 06/2017
  • Performed a detailed review and analysis of electrolysis of sodium chlorate to sodium perchlorate process at TKIS to understand theprocess irregularities and deviations

  • Performed engineering calculations to identify and characterize process parameters for the design of an efficient and economical crystallization technology to obtain 99.9% pure sodium perchlorate crystals

  • Performed Root Cause Analysis for an identified process problem (explosive disintegration of ClO2) and proposed viable andeconomical solutions for process improvement and proposed design solution to improve ClO2 yield