Resume

Education

University College London

Sep 2025 to Sep 2026

MSc Social and Geographic Data Science, Predicted: Merit

  • Dissertation on spatial inequality in PMAY-U, India's flagship affordable housing programme: built a national dataset linking Census 2011 slum household counts to homes delivered 2011 to 2025 across 28 states and union territories, plus policy and data governance document analysis.
  • Tools and methods: Python (pandas, GeoPandas, scikit-learn), R, SQL; statistical modelling, spatial analysis, graph neural networks (GraphSAGE), NLP (TF-IDF, LDA topic modelling), data visualisation.

City, University of London

Sep 2021 to Jun 2024

BSc (Hons) International Politics, 2:1

  • Global Money and Finance (final year): the dollar system, money and capital markets, securitisation, leverage, corporate debt and central bank policy (QE, interest rates).
  • Assessed work: 2,500-word essay on the problems of modern central banking (stagflation, QE, independence); group case pitch on BRICS de-dollarisation; presented on central bank digital currencies at a role-play Bretton Woods conference.
  • Quantified partisan framing across hundreds of media sources using a structured coding framework.

Experience

Cauldron

Jul 2026

Data and Operations Intern

  • Cleaned and summarised datasets and kept operational data accurate for a UK politics and sports prediction platform.
  • Developed pub and creator partnership pitches for 2026 World Cup activations and ran 2 live viewer events, adding 100+ users (around 15% growth).

Millat Asian Housing Association

May 2026

Office Administrative Assistant

  • Processed rental documents for 60 properties, handling sensitive tenant information with close attention to detail.
  • Maintained records and databases and coordinated with residents, contractors and internal stakeholders.

Inside Croydon

Jun to Jul 2024

Assistant Editor

  • Interviewed 2 sitting MPs, including a minister, and Liberal Democrat, Labour, Green and independent candidates during the 2024 general election.
  • Edited political and economic news to tight deadlines and coordinated election coverage with local organisations.

Clapham Law Solicitors

Aug to Sep 2022

Summer Intern

  • Researched UK immigration law and distilled complex legal and policy material into a concise report for senior staff.

Thomson Reuters

Aug 2017

Work Experience (Financial and Risk)

  • Traced an error in a stock's listing data with Eikon's data team and helped troubleshoot client data exchange issues.

Selected Projects

London House Price Valuation Model (Spatial Machine Learning)

UCL, 2026

  • Built an end-to-end pipeline joining Land Registry, Census and deprivation data for 4,833 London neighbourhoods, engineering a spatial adjacency graph of 26,552 edges so that comparable neighbouring areas inform each price prediction.
  • Benchmarked 4 models on held-out data: GraphSAGE reached R² 0.767 and MAE £88k, cutting error by 28% versus a linear baseline and 14% versus a non-spatial neural network.

Yelp Review Sentiment Analysis and Restaurant Site Selection (Calgary)

UCL, 2026

  • Classified 82,182 Yelp reviews of 5,234 Calgary businesses using text, sentiment and structured features; logistic regression reached 0.88 accuracy and 0.86 macro-F1.
  • Topic modelling showed poor service drove negative reviews; combined sentiment with local competition to recommend an underserved south-east Calgary area for a new restaurant.

Global Social Media Censorship Tracker (censorship.my)

Independent, 2025 to present

  • Built and run a live public tracker of 456 platform restrictions across 79 countries and territories, covering 49 platforms and backed by 171 cited sources.

Extra-curricular

Postgraduate Representative, UCL Hindu Society

Nov 2025 to Aug 2026

  • Co-organised Rangeela 2026, a sell-out West End showcase with 200+ performers, and represented postgraduates.

President, South Asian Society, City, University of London

Sep 2023 to Aug 2024

  • Co-led the first Students' Union South Asian Fair, managing logistics, budgets and external partners end to end.

Skills, Languages and Interests

Microsoft Office: Advanced Excel (pivot tables, lookups, charting, data analysis) and PowerPoint (pitch decks).

Languages: English (native), French (advanced), Tamil (proficient).

Interests: Running (training for the 2027 London Marathon); writing (Substack); photography.