Kamal Gupta Data Enthusiast, Analyst

Hyderabad, India, gargkamal009@gmail.com, +91 72078 70927, www.linkedin.com/in/gargkamal009 Education 2011 ­ 2015 Ph.D. Data Analysis Central University of Himachal Pradesh in Management June 2008 MBA, Financial Analysis Indian institute of Integrated Learning Management (IILM­AHL)

Awards 2012, Received Grant from UGC for clearing NET. 2012, Doctoral fellowship of ICSSR for my thesis. 5 International publications

Research Analyst(Ph.D) with 1+ years hands on experience in data analysis, mathematical modeling, financial planning, investor relations and private equities. Hands on experience with data analysis tools and quantitative analysis & visualization of large data sets. Specialization Data and regression analysis, quantitative analysis, data science and prediction, data mining, corporate finance(valuation) and portfolio management.

Programming tool: R, RStudio Data Analysis Tools: SPSS, Excel, Pivot tables, MySql, SAS Regression analysis, Linear and Logistic Regression, Predictive Analysis Eviews ­ Financial time series data tool Visualization

Bar Charts, Heatmaps, Scatter plots, Graphs, Maps Correlation analysis, collaborative filtering for recommendations

Interests ­ Creating user centric data products ­ Working with companies to improve decision making using data ­ Using data visualization techniques to improve user experience as in case with housing.com Experience Predicting CTR for Online Advertisement Participated in competition to predict CTR for display advertisement. This was part of competition on kaggle.com. I used mysql, pivot tables and regression analysis. Idea of project was to find optimum weights for all variables such as banner size, website category to predict CTR for any campaign. Associate (Reporting to Head­Finance & Investor Relations) (2008 ­ 2010) Emerging India Value Advisors Pvt. Ltd; New Delhi Tools used: MySql Worked on financial statement analysis of the companies using ratio analysis techniques, did market valuation of the companies for the clients (private equity investors). Developed predictive analytics based solutions for market study and company valuations. Management Intern 2007 at Syndicate Bank (June 2007 to July 2007)

Project was focused mainly on analysis of balance sheet, profitability, banking activities and lending policies of Syndicate Bank. I analyzed the accounts, reports and the returns of the bank along with the audited reports to find out its importance to the financial figures of the bank as a whole. The project is to help Syndicate Bank in planning further growth in relation to technological up­gradation. Projects

Thesis: Mutual Fund Performance: A study on selectivity and timing abilities of mutual fund managers in India

Click Through Rate Prediction for online advertisement