About

Sarthak Gupta is a Business Analyst (Management Consulting) at Auctus Advisors, with a strong background in chemical engineering. He completed his Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering at IIT Kanpur in 2020. Sarthak has 2.18 years of relevant experience in the industry, having previously worked as an intern at Schlumberger. During his internship at Schlumberger, Sarthak worked as a mud engineer trainee at ONGC LMP in Kakinada, a client location under Mi SWACO. He assisted a crew of over 10 people in testing and maintenance operations, as well as vessel transfer operations. He also organised the testing lab and made a comprehensive location-based inventory of the equipment present. Sarthak prepared an 82-page report on the operations at the LMP, which included a few QHSE recommendations. He also identified the interpolation/regression methods used in Mi SWACO's MudWare software to fit parameters to rheological mathematical models. Sarthak used MATLAB to produce best-fit and user-driven parameters, apart from reproducing MudWare’s original results. The best-fit parameters reduced the RMSE from 3.7 to 1.8 over the entire shear range, a 51 per cent decrease. The user-driven study allowed calculations on 8 shear rates instead of 2 as in the original MudWare software. Sarthak has also worked as the Coordinator of the Research Wing at Academics and Research Cell, IIT Kanpur. He spearheaded a 3-tier team of over 50 students to promote and foster research culture on campus. Sarthak planned and organised India’s 2nd biggest student-based research event (SRC), utilising a budget of around ₹ 7,00,000. He introduced two new events in SRC, InvAR and DaRe, and also started poster conferences to go along with oral ones. Sarthak restructured the Creatives team, launching SRC’s new logo and website, as well as EasyChair and Facebook pages. He initiated the first-ever Marketing campaign, bringing in more than ₹ 50,000 from various institute/commercial sources. Sarthak completed the proposal for Revival of PoWER after meetings with the ADIC, the DoRD, and other institute authorities. He designed an all-Institute Research Portal to act as a central database for research work and streamline project procurement. Sarthak brought in India’s most decorated scientific personalities