About

Prajual Maheshwari is a highly skilled Quantitative Research Analyst and Algorithmic Trader with a strong background in Economics and Industrial and Management Engineering. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur). Prajual is currently working in high frequency trading as a Quantitative Research Analyst, where he is responsible for machine learning and AI intern tasks. Prajual has a deep understanding of Bayesian Quantile Regression for Ordinal Models and has even developed an R-package on the same. He has also worked on multi-class classification using deep learning, text summarization using text rank algorithm, and exploratory data analysis on text extracted from resumes. Prajual has extensive experience in performing clustering of resumes based on the skill set of the people and using LDA for topic modelling. He has also developed a user interface in Flask with Elasticsearch query support, which provides a decent search over all the fields of a resume. In the past, Prajual has worked as an Analyst at Amex, where he developed an estimation technique for Bayesian quantile regression in ordinal models. He has also worked as a Quantitative Developer at Qualitative Financials, where he developed an independent platform for Social Media Analytics powered using Python and Django framework. Prajual is proficient in Research Scientist, Deep Learning, Elastic Search, Flask, SVM, AI, ML, Search, ui, NLP, Python, and Django. He is a CFA Level 1 certified professional and has a relevant experience of 2.69 years. Prajual is passionate about reading fictional novels of different genres, meeting new people, and working for social welfare.