Aakash Bhalothia
Tobin Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University
Economics PhD Student @ UC San Diego
Yale University
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Research fellow under Professor Rohini Pande
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Tobin Pre-Doctoral Fellow
NERA Economic Consulting
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Greater New York City Area
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Research Associate
Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
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• Evaluated the effects of unconditional direct cash transfers using data from a randomized control trial in Kenya
• Constructed 20+ metrics to understand the impact on household activities, education and macroeconomic effects
• Analyzed 3 years of market survey data to estimate the effect size of cash transfers on inflation and consumption
• Applied linear and spatial regression models to estimate the impact of cash transfers on enterprise activity
Berkeley, California
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Research Assistant, Prof Edward Ted Miguel
University of California, Berkeley
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• Teaching Assistant for an intermediate Data Science course of 600 students (Data Science 100) 
• Teaching labs and discussions of 30 students, conducting office hours; focusing on principles and techniques of data science
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Undergraduate Student Instructor
The Student Advocate's Office
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Worked with students facing grievances against the university specifically regarding their academic progress.
Berkeley, CA
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Caseworker
The Berkeley Group
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•	Led a pro-bono consulting project for a nonprofit - Berkeley Adult School, managing a team of 5 consultants
•	Planned project structure to conduct an impact evaluation of the school and increase enrollment numbers by 30%
•	Designed the methodology to analyze student enrollment data with over 300 data points to identify the best courses
Berkeley, CA
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Project Manager
Berkeley India Conference
•Led a team of 20 members to organize the inaugural UC Berkeley student conference on development issues in India  
•Raised over $55,000 by planning and coordinating strategy for negotiating corporate sponsorship agreements 
•Established partnerships with Government of India, 2 reputed Indian universities and a US-India lobbying group 
•Collaborated with Directors of 4 UC academic institutes and managed to confirm 15 prominent experts as speakers
Berkeley, CA
Founder
NVIDIA
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• Built a data analysis platform (Groovy on Grails) for analyzing unstructured data
• Deployed tool to production for use by over 50 teams (500 users) to uncover performance bottlenecks in CUDA compiler and applications.
• Developing additional functionality such as XML validation, database virtualization in Docker for horizontal scaling etc
• Expected to speed up the development cycle of teams by over 10%
Santa Clara, CA
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Software Engineering Intern
University of California, Berkeley
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•	Used Machine Learning to perform Natural Language Processing and extraction on historical newspaper articles to create a dataset for analyzing the impact of British policies on origins of religious violence in India
•	Scraped data using the Python NLTK library to extract features and create a training set of classified articles
•	Created prediction models for predicting the relevance of an article by using the training set on learning methods such as random forest, logistic regression and k-nearest neighbor, to eventually classify 200,000 available articles
Berkeley
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Machine Learning Research Assistant
University of California, Berkeley
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•	Developed a back-end application using shell scripts (Bash) for monitoring campus Business Intelligence applications in order to alert the ETL team in case of an application failure
•	Constructed an automated back-end system in bash that checked the status of the daily upload of student academic and financial data, and notified the campus administration in the event of delay/failure
•	Worked with a senior manager to successfully deploy both applications to production
Berkeley
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Software Engineer
The Berkeley Group
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Worked on identifying a sustainable and risk-averse social enterprise business idea for formerly incarcerated individuals. The end goal of the social enterprise is to help reintegrate them and provide them with stability and valuable skills for their future careers.
Berkeley, CA
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External Consultant
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Economics
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UC San Diego
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Bachelor’s Degree
Graduated with High Honors (Magna Cum Laude) in Economics. Economics Senior Honors Thesis: "Does sexual harassment affect labor market choices?"
Computer Science, Economics
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University of California, Berkeley
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High School
Science Stream- Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Economics
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Modern School
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•Started an undergraduate student initiative to organize an annual conference at Berkeley to discuss issues affecting India
• Theme: Future opportunities for youth in India. Advisors: Professor Pranab Bardhan and Professor Pradeep Chhibber
• Raised over $50,000 as part of fundraising and sponsorship efforts
Berkeley India Conference
Founder
Data Structures and Advanced Programming
CS61B
Discrete Mathematics & Probability Theory
CS70
Great Ideas of Computer Architecture
CS61C
Introduction to Economics
Econ 2
Linear Algebra & Differential Equations
Math 54
Microeconomic Theory (Hons)
Econ 101A
Principles and Techniques of Data Science
Data Science 100
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
CS61A
Advanced Concepts of Proabability
STAT 134
Artificial Intelligence
CS188
Computational Data Analysis
STAT 133
Economic Theory - Macro (Hons)
ECON 101B
Foundations of Data Science
CS C8
iOS Programming
CS 198
• Created an iOS application that generates a travel itinerary for the user based on suggested tourist attractions in a city
• Users can select certain attractions and the app generates an optimal plan for the user to visit each attraction, taking into account opening and closing times for places as well as the public transit schedule
•Modeled the problem as a Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and used Google Maps API, Yelp API, Google Places API and Uber API to implement features
iTravel (Automated Travel Assistant) – iOS Application
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Pleasanton, CA
Peixuan Xie
Student at UC San Diego
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San Diego, CA
Devanshi Jain
Math & CS @ UC San Diego
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Los Angeles, CA
Maria Elena Guerrero Amezaga
Doctoral Student at University of California, Los Angeles
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San Diego, CA
Varun Singh
Student at University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of Engineering
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Bellevue, WA
Varun Gandhay
Master of Economics Student at Columbia University
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New York City Metropolitan Area
MPR Jewelry by Meghan Patrice Riley
MPR Jewelry: Contemporary Demi-Fine Jewelry
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United States
Shiv Mulchandani
CS @ UCSD
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United States
Emma Salomon
Research Associate at Harvard Business School
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Washington, DC
Brad DeSanctis
M.A. candidate in International Relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS
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New Haven, CT
Hallie Whitman
MBA/MPH Candidate at Yale University
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New York, NY
Martin Lee
Senior Manager - Assurance Services at EY
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Los Angeles, CA
Bruce Park
Underwriting Analyst at Parkview Financial®️
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Ann Arbor, MI
Vinay Hiremath
ML engineering, computational neuroscience, AI safety
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San Francisco Bay Area
Arjun Soin
Healthcare AI + Digital Health
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San Francisco, CA
Ashutosh Bajpai
Data Scientist at Keystone Strategy
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London
Mannkaur Bahra
Attended University of Greenwich
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San Diego, CA
Vinay Hanasoge
Software Engineer at General Atomics
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San Francisco Bay Area
Chloe Jeon
Stanford '25 | Amador Valley High School '21
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San Francisco Bay Area
Ankit Sud
Principal at NewView Capital
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San Diego, CA
Satwik Nandala
Hardware Engineer at Qualcomm
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The ASUC Student Advocate's Office
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UC Berkeley International Student & Alumni Network
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Cal Alumni Association | UC Berkeley
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Product Managers Community
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The Berkeley Group
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UC Berkeley
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