Vighnesh Natarajan Ganesh


Goldman Sachs Summer Analyst, 2022

Visiting Researcher, London Business School

BITS Pilani, Computer Science + Finance

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About

WHO AM I?

Education B.E. in Computer Science Engineering, Minor In Finance
Industry Experience Summer Analyst 2022 Goldman Sachs
Global Alpha Researcher Trexquant Investment
Data Science Intern LuMos, Silicon Valley (Social Media Startup)
Intern Bharat Electronics
Academic Experience Visiting Researcher London Business School
Data Science for Social Good (DSSGx) Fellow University of Warwick
Positions of Responsibility President Safety and Medical Advisory Council
ML Lead of Microsoft Ambassadors Microsoft Learn Student Partners of BITS Pilani
Vice President of Membership Toastmasters
Club Secretary Pilani Tamil Mandram
Extra-curricular Percussion Instruments
Badminton
Power Lifting
Public Speaking
Age

Featured Experiences

Goldman Sachs
Summer Analyst
Ideated and organized the event that recorded the highest participation in the All-India Goldman Sachs Hackathon.

Created new orchestrations, that will process billions of dollars in personal loans with better scalability.

Minimized client loss by developing a command to restart the loan applications that fail due to production issues.
London Business School
Visiting Researcher
Modelled the imbalance system of British electricity market to predict the settlement prices using external factors.

Improved on the present state-of-the-art algorithm's point and quantile forecast accuracy using a custom neural network.

Pinball loss reduced by >90% for the 1st, 5th, 95th and 99th percentile forecasts and RMSE decreased from 14.7 to 14.5 GPB on back testing.
University of Warwick
DSSGx Fellow
Worked with The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany.

Developed multiple models (SARIMAX, VAR, deep neural networks) and incorporated auto machine learning in Python.

Authored a chapter in the textbook: "Neue Dimensionen in Data Science", Link To Buy.

Worked on Streamlit to build an application, to deploy the model with adequate abstraction for use by economists. Try the Tool Documentation.

Positions of Responsibility


President | Safety and Medical Advisory Council

➣ Coordinated 168 medical cases including 4 emergencies with Birla Sarvajanik Hospital.
➣ Doubled the yearly registrations for DATRI Stem Cell Registry from BITS with 150+ students registered.
➣ Lead a team of 4 programmers and 2 writers to create a blog site
➣ Organized first aid camps of BOSM, Oasis 2019.



Vice-President of Membership | Toastmasters

➣ Doubled no. of paying members during my tenure.
➣ Quadrupled no. of paying women members by introducing a "Women in Toastmasters" drive.
➣ First and one of only two members to finish a Toastmaster Pathway in BITS Pilani.
➣ Achieved Magical Leader and Triple Crown Award from Toastmasters District 41.



Lead of the Ambassadors | Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors Bits Pilani

➣ Led a team of 20 Ambassadors for a year as their ML Lead
➣ Created open-source projects and learning pathways.
➣ Conducted a workshop with Microsoft employees to teach BITS students about ML on the Cloud.
➣ Organized and Spoke in a Talk with 150+ attendees.



Secretary | Pilani Tamil Mandram (Regional Association)

➣ Organized multiple cultural events including a musical performance in தமிழ்.