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VAIBHAV C SHAH (11AG3FP05) C-306, Patel Hall of Residence, IIT Kharagpur
ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS
Institution Degree Year Performance
IIT Kharagpur Agricultural and Food Engineering / Financial Engineering 2011-16 7.70/10
Ramnivas Ruia College, Mumbai Higher Secondary Certificate, Maharashtra State Board 2010 92.00 %
The S.I.A High School Secondary School Certificate, Maharashtra State Board 2008 92.61 %
 Cleared Chartered Financial Analyst Level 1 exam conducted by the CFA Institute , USA in June 2015
 Secured an All India Rank of 57 in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE -2015)
 Secured an All India Rank of 4730 (99.7 percentile) in JEE 2011 and All India Rank of 1457 (99.8 percentile) in AIEEE 2011.
 Ranked 3rd (800 students) in 12th board examinations and 2nd (200 students) in School in 10th board examinations
SUMMER INTERNSHIPS and PROJECTS
 Understanding Electricity spot Markets in India and modelling Market Clearing Prices and Volumes
M.TECH PROJECT,
 Handling multiple seasonalities using Modified Holt-Winters method and Seasonal ARIMA Method
Vinod Gupta School of
 Estimating the parameters to capture hour-of-the-day and day-of-the-week effect in the market
Management (ongoing)
 Using software programs like Microsoft Excel, STATA and R to observe conditional heteroskedasticity
SUMMER INTERNSHIP,  Worked on Breeding Program of Small Grains like Wheat, Barley and Triticale
University of Nebraska,  Gained hands on Experience with the innovative technologies & the processes in Wheat Breeding
Lincoln, USA  Learned about the disease scoring, rating morphological traits, data integration & field operations
(May-July,2014)  Experienced an international work environment and was exposed to a culturally diverse group
 Using the betel leaf and it’s by-products to create a natural, low-cost and 100% organic incense cone
B.TECH PROJECT,
 Developed a proto-type product and worked on large scale implementation of the created model
Dept. of AgFE (2014-15)
 Created a product that lasted 25% longer at a 15% reduced cost as opposed to existing products
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
 Appreciated by the Director, IIT Kharagpur and Dean, Students Affairs for organising a Voluntary
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
Blood donation camp which saw a participation of over 100+ participants from the entire institute
ADVISOR
 Took Initiative to remodel a dilapidated room into a room for Literary and Fine arts activities
PATEL HALL (2014-15)
 Introduced a tracking system for regular updates of practice sessions of 22 events in Soc-Cult GC
 Spearheaded the team to win 6 Gold, 5 Silver and 6 Bronze medals in the Social and cultural GC
 Highest number of medals won by any hall of residence in the Soc-cult GC in the last decade
GENERAL SECRETARY,
 Handled the logistics of the 22 events in the Soc-cult GC , the Open IITs and the events like Rangoli
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
and Illumination, Saraswati Puja, Hall Day etc. and thereby managed a finances of over INR 2 lakhs
PATEL HALL (2013-14)
 Introduced generic costumes and make-up kits, thereby curtailing the budget by a massive 25%
 Conceptualized the 3-D anaglyph Rangoli which won Bronze for Patel Hall after a span of 9 years
CAPTAIN, WTGW  Led a team of 30 juniors for the open IIT and the Inter-hall What’s the Good Word competition
PATEL HALL (2014-16)  Benchmarked years for the hall as the team won Gold in the Inter-hall and had a historical clean
sweep victory by bagging all three positions for 2 years consecutively in the Open IIT
CAPTAIN, ELOCUTION  Groomed the team of 15 juniors for Hindi elocution as well as English elocution Open IIT competition
PATEL HALL (2015-16)  Two of the top three spots were bagged by the individual team members in English elocution event
 Worked with my co-captains to manage a group of 150 people working on Illumination
CAPTAIN, ILLUMINATION
 Conceptualized the theme, design and the presentation for the street art Rangoli
PATEL HALL (2014-15)
 Negotiated terms with suppliers to control costs efficiently reduce the budget of 1 Lakh by 20%
 Instrumental in regular practices of Literary Cup events, in consultation with the respective captains
LITERARY SECRETARY,
 Compiled, Edited and Published the Annual Hall Magazine “PATELIAN 2013”
PATEL HALL (2012-13)
 Compiled and Published the monthly editions of Wall Magazine “BLUE LITMUS”
VOUNTEER MEMBER,  Part of team that raised over 50 lakhs in the “MY IMPRINT” programme by Students’ Alumni Cell
Students’ Alumni Cell  Responsible for Hospitality, Travel and Accommodation of Alumni in 9th Annual Alumni Meet
(2011-12)  Led the visitors on a Campus Tour, Departmental Visits and Hall Visits
EXTRA-ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
 Have a 4 year continuous Gold winning streak in Open IIT What’s the Good Word (2012-15)
 Won another gold in Inter-hall WTGW (2014-15) and bronze in Inter-hall Choreography (2012-13)
SOCIAL & CULTURAL  Bagged Silver in Open IIT English elocution (2015-16) and Bronze in Open IIT Cartooning (2012-13)
 Represented the hall as 1 of the speakers in the Inter-hall debate for 2 consecutive years (2014-16)
 Actively involved in Inter-Hall team for Dramatics, Debate, Elocution and other literary events
OSWAL’s ACADEMY OF  Worked as an Instructor of VEDIC MATHEMATICS for Beginner’s and intermediate level
VEDIC MATHEMATICS  Coached over 100 students that included Bank officials, Teachers, Competitive Exam Aspirants etc.
(May-July, 2012)  Conducted 3 seminars on Vedic Mathematics for ICICI Bank Ltd. Loyalty Programme in Mumbai