About Me
I'm a Penn State student studying computational math and statistics with a minor in computer science. Fascinated by machine learning, data science, and computational statistics, I hope to attend graduate school in the future and later work as a big-data analyst or researcher.
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Outside the classroom, my hobbies include playing basketball (Shout out Knicks), biking, listening to music, public speaking, and reading FiveThirtyEight. I also enjoy taking Coursera classes in my spare time.
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I'm not big on personal mottos, but one quote that really inspires me is Tom Peters' "Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders." It's an empowering, insightful idea, and one that I try to carry out in both my professional and personal life.
Ishan Muzumdar
Penn State University

EXPERIENCE
June 2019-August 2019
Incoming Data Engineer Intern
CAPITAL ONE
As a data engineer in Capital One's Technology Development Program, I will help enable rich data visualizations, build out the company's analytic and ML capabilities using modern, open source technologies, and deploy applications in the cloud (AWS, Azure).
June 2018-October 2018
Machine Learning Intern
AUTOMATION ALLEY
At Automation Alley, I am working with the entrepreneurship team to build an NLP application that performs similarity analysis on company survey data. I also developed an interactive web-based app using R Shiny that plots word-clouds from text data.
TEDxPSU
As programming director, I am responsible for all promotional events leading up to the main conference, including the student speaking competition and TEDx salons. I also manage a team of six students, secure venues, coordinate with Penn State event staff.
April 2017-Present
Vice-President,Programming Co-Director
May 2017-March 2018
Undergraduate Researcher
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
I co-authored a paper with Professor Donald Richards to understand the long-term implications of the risk transfer formula on the Affordable Care Act. We used Markov transition models to analyze the behavior of risk transfer premiums under the ACA.
May 2017-August 2017
Data Science Research Assistant
YALE UNIVERSITY
In 2017, I worked on a statistical research project to measure consumer sentiments of airline companies through social media. My roles included mining/organizing data using Twitter API analytics and performing programmatic sentiment analysis in R.
EDUCATION
2016-2020
Math (B.S.), Statistics (B.S.)
Computing Option
Minor: Computer Science
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Relevant Coursework Stochastic Modeling, Discrete Math, Data Structures, Python, Mathematical Statistics, Linear Programming
Activities/Societies Schreyer Scholar, Mathematical Association of America, Penn State Learning: Speaking Center Tutor, TEDxPSU
PROJECTS
SKILLS
Machine Learning/Data Analytics
TensorFlow/NumPy
Public Speaking
Python/R/SQL/Twitter API
Website Development/SEO
Spanish - Bilingual Proficiency