I am a graduate student in Mathematics. My research area is in Combinatorial Representation Theory, which is a study of symmetries and their uses in solving complex systems. My goal is to apply the principles and tools of Representation Theory to data analysis. I am passionate about solving real world problems with clever use of mathematical concepts.

Research & Teaching Assistant @ I have conducted recitation sections for Calculus 1,2 and 3. From August 2010 to Present (5 years 5 months) Urbana-Champaign, Illinois AreaData Science Intern @ - Performed multiple crowd annotation projects on language data - Modeled intent-to-buy a car on social media data and found significant correlations with car sales - Analyzed public discussion themes on Russian social media data and investigated Russian public's opinion on McDonald's closures in Russia. - Assisted with client-facing data projects From May 2015 to August 2015 (4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaData Analysis Intern @ - Built micro-simulation models to assess impacts of social protection grants on household well-being measures - Performed analysis on identifying target groups in Nepal for new social protection programs. - Assessed secondary benefits of social protection cash transfers such as the Old Age Pension, Child Support Grant and Disability Grant in South Africa. From May 2008 to August 2009 (1 year 4 months) Cape Town Area, South Africa

PhD candidate, Mathematics @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 2010 to 2016 Master of Science (M.S.), Mathematics @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 2010 to 2012 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, Economics @ Williams College From 2006 to 2010 General study, Economics, Mathematics @ London School of Economics and Political Science From 2008 to 2009 Bolor PhD is skilled in: Python, Natural Language Processing, R, Machine Learning, Crowd Annotation, SQL, MatLab, scikit-learn, pandas, Tableau, MySQL, Data Analysis, Research