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.