Avi Vaid

Avi Vaid

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Experience

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    Instabase

    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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    New York, United States

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

Education

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    Northwestern University

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    Activities and Societies: Club Tennis

    Majored in Computer Science, Economics. With an MBA-like certificate in Financial Economics at the Kellogg School of Management.

Licenses & Certifications

Projects

  • Miscellaneous projects

    - Present

    YouTube song list MP3 downloader (Python), Indian to international currency denomination system convertor (Python, Yahoo Finance API), Twilio mass SMS sender for top fashion house- Gopi Vaid (Python, Twilio API)

  • Other coursework

    - Present

    A critical analysis of an everyday building(Experiencing Architecture), Is affirmative action morally just? (Intro Philosophy), To what extent are the UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations beneficial and justifiable (Research writing), Ethical thoughts on vegetarianism and assisted suicide (Ethical problems and public issues), Under what conditions should sex be considered as an immoral activity (Ethical problems and public issues), Should the death penalty be abolished? (Ethical problems and…

    A critical analysis of an everyday building(Experiencing Architecture), Is affirmative action morally just? (Intro Philosophy), To what extent are the UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations beneficial and justifiable (Research writing), Ethical thoughts on vegetarianism and assisted suicide (Ethical problems and public issues), Under what conditions should sex be considered as an immoral activity (Ethical problems and public issues), Should the death penalty be abolished? (Ethical problems and public issues), Representing data transfer on the internet in C++ code (Object oriented programming), Understanding data structures in C# (Data structures)

  • Research Projects

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    Impact of interest rates on housing demand in South Mumbai (Economics), Using mathematical tax fraud detection tools to determine the veracity of Chinese macroeconomic data (Mathematics), Reasons for implementation of various crisis responses internationally in 2008 and evaluation of their effectiveness (Political Science), Stanford University research: Participated in the world’s largest crowd research project engaged in identifying the features and developing the ideal crowd sourcing…

    Impact of interest rates on housing demand in South Mumbai (Economics), Using mathematical tax fraud detection tools to determine the veracity of Chinese macroeconomic data (Mathematics), Reasons for implementation of various crisis responses internationally in 2008 and evaluation of their effectiveness (Political Science), Stanford University research: Participated in the world’s largest crowd research project engaged in identifying the features and developing the ideal crowd sourcing platform, Daemo (Computer Science- HCI, Economics- Auctions/ Pricing models)

  • mumbaijobfinder.com

    Founded and implemented this web service using HTML, CSS, JS along with analytics script to try to provide an information flow in the vocational job market (soft skills) and reduce the problem of frictional unemployment in Mumbai

    See project

Honors & Awards

  • Dean's list for excellence in academic performance: 7/9 quarters at Northwestern

    Northwestern University

Test Scores

  • International Baccalaurete

    Score: 42/45 points

    HL- Chem, Econ, Math
    SL- CompSci, Hindi, English
    Extended essay- Correlation of interest rates and housing demand, Subject: Economics HL
    Additional subject- Theory of Knowledge(Introductory Epistemology)

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Federal Reserve Challenge team

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    Conduct Monetary Policy research for the National Federal Reserve challenge as a team headed by a senior Economics professor

  • Rotaract at Northwestern

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    Perform community service and fundraising activities

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