CV and Portfolio

Experience

• Business Intelligence Consultant, August 2022-Present
  • VISEO IBERIA
  • Duties include: Tableau and data analytics consultant for Vueling Airlines.
• Data Science Trainee, January-July 2022
  • Digital Futures
  • Duties included: undergoing intensive training to achieve industry standard workflows using tools like Python, PostgreSQL, Tableau and pgAdmin.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant October 2021-January 2022
  • Imperial College London
  • Duties included: mentoring students during a coding bootcamp, answering curriculum related questions and scheduling weekly check-ins.
• Spatial Ecological Modelling Research Internship, July-September 2019
  • University of Aberdeen
  • Duties included: investigating spatial modelling parameters which influence invasive species dispersal success.
• Salesperson, June 2015-August 2018
  • Mayachi
  • Duties included: curating window displays, wholesale sales, retail sales, customer relationship management, inventory management.

Education

• MSc in Computational Biology and Statistics, Imperial College London, 2020-2021
• BSc in Environmental Biology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2015-2019

Data Science Projects

• Whale and dolphin image classification, March 2022, GitHub, Blogpost
  • To automate processes in ecological research, I built a deep learning model that identifies whale and dolphin families with over 70% accuracy from images of dorsal fins.
• Poisonous mushroom detection, February 2022, GitHub, Blogpost
  • If you’re foraging without a mushroom guide, I built class predictive models to indicate the edibility of a mushroom with full certainty, based on a minimum number of biological traits.
• Model selection criteria, January 2021, GitHub
  • Given the discourse in academic literature, I analyse the boundaries of reliability for AIC and BIC as metrics for model selection between mechanistic and polynomial models.

Skills

• Tech stack
  • Languages: R, Python, Bash, Powershell, PostgreSQL, SQL, Latex, Markdown, C, command line Git
  • Tools: Anaconda, Jupyter, pgAdmin, Tableau, High Performance Computing
• Data Science knowledge
  • Linear and non-linear statistical modelling
  • Multivariate calculus
  • Web-scraping and API’s
  • Distributed computing
  • Libraries: pandas, sklearn, statsmodels, keras, tensorflow, seaborn, matplotlib, numpy, pyspark
• Languages
  • Spoken and written: English, Spanish, Catalan and French
  • Spoken: Hindi and Sindhi

Leadership and Certifications

• Certified Associate in Python Programming (PCAP) by the Python Institute in May 2022.
• Part of the Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Symposium (2021) organisational committee at Silwood Park.
• Spanish Youth Ambassador for the Chirag Rural Development Foundation. Raised over 6,000€ with the team in Barcelona, organising events to raise money for the Project Chirag cause both during and after the first lockdown in 2020.
• Awarded Best Dissertation from a Gendered Perspective in December 2019 by the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Publications

The Very Many Faces of Chipko: The Role of Gender in a Grassroots Environmental Activism Movement

Suraj Bhojwani, A. (2019). The very many faces of Chipko: the role of gender in a grassroots environmental activism movement.