Avni Sharma
Edison
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Statistical Researcher
Rutgers Fed Challenge
2024.04 - 2024.10
- Participated in weekly economic research meetings with Professor Raymond Stone, Economist Dana Saporta, and a team of 17 students to analyze current and past financial conditions, market behavior, interests rates, and more
- Aggregated and visualized a variety of large economic, employment, and immigration datasets from public and private sources to identify key trends and support our team's monetary policy recommendations and presentation
- Designed statistical models in R and Python to forecast economic conditions, boosting data-driven policy analysis
Campaign Canvasser
Democratic Party of Edison
Edison
2022.11 - 2022.11
- Engaged with community members through door-to-door outreach to raise awareness and encourage voter participation.
- Collected data on voter preferences and concerns to inform campaign strategies.
Political Campaign Team
Democratic Party of Edison
Edison
2020.08 - 2021.11
- Designed and implemented targeted strategies to increase campaign appeal among diverse demographics.
- Coordinated distribution of campaign materials including flyers and social media content.
- Managed social media accounts, creating content that increased engagement and reach to the local community.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
Rutgers University
New Brunswick08.2025
High School -
Edison High School
New Jersey2020-06
Skills
- Programming Languages: Experienced with R and Python
- Data Analysis
- Strategic Planning
- Policy Analysis
- Data analysis
- Economic forecasting
- Statistical modeling
- Data visualization
- Machine learning algorithms
- Time series analysis
- Regression analysis
Projects
Machine Learning for Fitness Analytics
Statistical Learning, 09/2024 – 12/ 2024
- Employed feature selection to identify key predictors of workout effectiveness from a data set of 973 entries
- Enlisted linear regression with 5-fold cross-validation to analyze the impact of session duration, workout frequency, and other factors on fitness outcomes, enhancing model accuracy and improving model performance by 65%
- Developed a machine learning-based program integrating regression modeling and grid search to recommend personalized workout plans, optimizing training recommendations based on users' fitness goals and demographic
Certification
- AWS Cloud Practitioner - In Progress
Affiliations
Limbach Samaj Of America Inc.
Verona, 2013-Current
- Facilitated in setting up events, including arranging venues, decorations, and necessary equipment
- Actively moderated community engagement for various events organized
- Participated in post-event clean-up activities, maintaining cleanliness and organization for future events
Timeline
Statistical Researcher
Rutgers Fed Challenge
2024.04 - 2024.10
Campaign Canvasser
Democratic Party of Edison
2022.11 - 2022.11
Political Campaign Team
Democratic Party of Edison
2020.08 - 2021.11
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
Rutgers University
High School -
Edison High School