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Data Scientist and Data Analyst with an M.S. from Boston University. I work on healthcare, quantitative finance and web-scale data — and I'd rather hand you a result that survives a follow-up question than one that looks good on a slide.

Data Scientist Data Analyst BI / Power BI Analyst ML Engineer
M.S. Applied Data Analytics · Boston University · GPA 3.75/4.0 · graduated May 2026
First-authored paper accepted · EAI CSECS 2026 · Springer LNICST
Boston, MA · open to any US location and remote
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How I work

I built a readmission model. Then I checked the AUC: 0.5654.

That's barely better than a coin flip. The easy move was to report the 71% accuracy instead — which sounds respectable until you notice that predicting "nobody gets readmitted" scores higher.

So I stopped tuning the model and asked a different question: what would a hospital actually do with a prediction? That reframed everything. I built a threshold-tunable classifier a care team can dial toward high recall when a missed readmission is costly, added SHAP so clinicians can see the reasoning, and modelled the cost-benefit at each operating point.

The dataset had weak signal. The decision framework was the real deliverable. I'd rather tell you that than quote a number that falls apart in the interview.

records30,000
class imbalance7.17 : 1
algorithms benchmarked10
accuracy (the flattering one)71%
AUC (the honest one)0.5654
what shippeddecision framework
projected saving / hospital$1.77M
Projected from a cost-benefit model at the chosen operating point — not realized savings. The distinction matters.
60M
revision events processed on GCP Dataproc
1.16M
editors in the WikiFlow cohort
4.5M+
transactional records cleaned in industry
3
papers published or accepted
3rd
of 40+ teams, BU MedAI Hackathon
Selected work

Every project starts with a question worth answering

Nine live repositories. Real datasets, stated methods, and results reported the way I'd defend them in an interview.

Accepted · EAI CSECS 2026
Q: Can you predict who stops contributing to Wikipedia — from their first ten edits alone?

WikiFlow — distributed editor-retention pipeline

A fully cloud-native pipeline over 60M revision events (1,158,248 editors, 25 GB) on a 1+4 node GCP Dataproc cluster. 13 leakage-free behavioural features, selected from 40+ candidates under strict no-leakage constraints. From-scratch RDD logistic regression against an Elephas-distributed Keras DNN. Runs end to end in under two hours with no local data movement.

AUC 0.909 DNNvs 0.845 baselineFirst author PySparkGCP DataprocElephas/KerasBigQuery
Q: Does an intraday edge on the dollar index survive real transaction costs?

DXY & FX intraday strategy research

24 sub-period strategies across the U.S. Dollar Index and six correlated FX pairs over 15 years of daily OHLC data, decomposing each day into overnight and daytime sessions. I spent most of the project trying to break the result, because a return that large usually means the test is wrong. It held up under ANOVA and cost stress-testing.

$100 → $318.80vs $121.72 B&HSharpe 1.06 vs 0.220–2 bps tested PythonpandasANOVA

All figures from backtesting, not live trading. Manuscript under review at Traders Magazine.

Q: What does a hospital do with a prediction that's barely better than chance?

Hospital readmission — decision framework

30,000 discharge records at a 7.17:1 imbalance, ten algorithms benchmarked with 5-fold stratified CV. The honest AUC came out at 0.5654, so the deliverable became the decision logic: a threshold a care team can tune toward recall, SHAP explanations clinicians can read, and cost-benefit modelling at each operating point.

AUC 0.5654 — reported anyway$1.77M projected10 algorithms scikit-learnSHAPSMOTE
Q: Can a star schema and a semantic model turn 100K raw orders into something a business can act on?

RetailPulse — e-commerce analytics

A 9-table, 100K-order dataset modelled into a PostgreSQL star schema, with analytical SQL underneath (window functions, CTEs, cohort retention, RFM segmentation) and a Power BI semantic model with DAX measures on top. The finding that mattered to operations: late deliveries drag review scores from 4.29 to 2.57 stars.

4.29 → 2.57 stars9-table star schema100K orders PostgreSQLPower BIDAXSQL
3rd of 40+ teams
Q: Can a 3D CNN quantify amyloid burden across four different PET tracers?

Amyloid PET Centiloid prediction

Volumetric PET regression for Alzheimer's early screening. A MedicalNet ResNet-34 backbone with FiLM tracer conditioning after each stage, trained with mixed precision, AdamW and Huber loss. I report the test figure, not the friendlier validation one.

Test MAE 12.67 CLr = 0.968val MAE 7.31 PyTorchMedicalNetFiLM
Q: Which health and socioeconomic factors actually predict learning difficulty in children?

Learning difficulty screening — NHIS 2024

7,439 children and 353 features from the National Health Interview Survey, run through 36 models across 9 algorithms and 4 class-balancing strategies. XGBoost with downsampling came out ahead; the feature importances pointed at the factors worth acting on.

36 models9 algorithms7,439 children RcaretXGBoost
Q: How early can you see a jet engine beginning to fail?

Predictive maintenance — NASA C-MAPSS

Run-to-failure turbofan sensor data. I isolated the genuinely degrading sensors with t-tests and ANOVA before modelling, then built regularised classifiers for failure detection and regression for remaining useful life.

AUC 0.94596.5% accuracyR² 0.50 RUL RLassoElasticNet
Q: Does Boston's subway split into communities that match how people actually ride it?

MBTA network community detection

Graph analytics on the MBTA subway network built from GTFS data, comparing Louvain, METIS and spectral clustering to find operationally meaningful communities.

Modularity 0.81106 nodes10 communities PythonNetworkX
Q: What actually drives V2X throughput — signal quality, or how the scenario is configured?

V2X wireless performance analysis

13,208 observations from the TiHAN-V2X dataset analysed with ANOVA, chi-square tests and polynomial regression. Scenario configuration dominated signal quality — the opposite of the intuitive answer.

R² 0.86913,208 obs RANOVA
Experience

Where the work happened

Research Assistant — Quantitative FX & DXY Strategy Research
Sep 2025 – May 2026
Boston University · Prof. Eugene Pinsky · Boston, MA
  • Sourced, cleaned and validated 15 years of daily market data across the dollar index and six correlated FX pairs, building the reusable Python modules the analysis ran on.
  • Designed a 24-rotation intraday return-decomposition framework from scratch; the top rotation returned 219% against a 22% buy-and-hold benchmark at a 1.06 Sharpe in backtesting.
  • Stress-tested every result across 0, 1 and 2 bps transaction-cost regimes with ANOVA and hypothesis testing, then co-authored a manuscript now under review at Traders Magazine.
Data Analyst Intern
Oct 2024 – Jan 2025
Unified Mentor · Remote
  • Gathered reporting requirements from product and operations stakeholders, then wrote and tuned SQL over 4.5M+ transactional records, resolving nulls, duplicates and schema inconsistencies.
  • Owned the recurring reporting cadence and automated it, cutting manual reporting effort by an estimated 40%.
  • Built self-service Tableau and Power BI dashboards across revenue, retention and supplier performance, analysing $577K in revenue across 4.9K orders.
  • Went past reporting into modelling: a fraud classifier at 0.96 precision / 0.80 recall over 284K transactions, and a demand forecaster at 8.4% MAPE.
Teaching Assistant — Advanced ML & Data Science with Python
Jan 2026 – May 2026
Boston University, Metropolitan College · Boston, MA
  • Supported 60+ graduate students across MET CS 767 and MET CS 577 with model implementation, debugging and evaluation.
  • If I can't explain why a model is broken to someone who's stuck on it, I don't really understand it either. Two semesters of that sharpened how I talk to non-technical stakeholders.
Machine Learning Research Intern
Jun 2022 – Aug 2022
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) · Ahmedabad, India
  • Trained a VGG-16 transfer-learning CNN for road detection in multi-spectral satellite imagery, reaching 82.03% accuracy on raw, uncurated images rather than a cleaned benchmark set.
  • Packaged it into a Dockerised Linux inference pipeline the team could run themselves — an estimated 60% cut in manual annotation effort, and a research prototype that became an adopted tool.
Research

Publications

Two published, one accepted, one under review. I keep those categories separate on purpose.

WikiFlow: Predicting Wikipedia Editor Dropout at Scale Using Distributed Machine Learning on Google Cloud

Accepted
Meena, A., Patel, K., Alizadeh-Shabdiz, F. · EAI CSECS 2026 · Springer LNICST · Scopus-indexed
First author. The first fully cloud-native pipeline for Wikipedia editor-dropout prediction, scaling to 1,158,248 editors — more than 10× the cohort size of prior single-machine studies — and the first application of synchronous distributed deep learning to this problem.

Accelerated CNN Training with Genetic Algorithm Optimization

Published
Meena, A., et al. · IEEE IATMSI · 2024
Integrated evolutionary optimisation with CNN training, cutting training time by over 50%, and proposed DoubledMNIST as a harder benchmark for generalisation testing.

Enhanced Scene Text Recognition for Accessibility

Published
Meena, A., et al. · ICADIE · Springer · 2024
A multi-stage computer vision pipeline using SVM, non-maximum suppression and language modelling. Vocabulary expanded from 50 to 427 words with a 4% accuracy improvement.

Intraday Sub-Period Return Decomposition Strategies on DXY and FX Markets

Under review
Meena, A., Pinsky, E. · Traders Magazine · 2026
24 intraday strategies across the dollar index and six FX pairs over 15 years. Best strategy: Sharpe 1.06 against 0.22 buy-and-hold, robustness-tested from 0 to 2 bps transaction costs. Revisions in progress ahead of the final version.
Toolkit

What I actually use

Everything here appears in a project or a role on this page — nothing listed that I couldn't be questioned on.

Languages & query

PythonSQLRPostgreSQLBigQueryAthena

Analytics & statistics

EDAHypothesis testingA/B testingANOVARegressionTime seriesCohort & RFM

BI & visualisation

Power BIDAXTableauStar-schema modellingPlotlyMatplotlib

Machine learning

scikit-learnXGBoostPyTorchRandom ForestSHAPSMOTEFeature engineering

Big data & cloud

PySparkApache SparkGCP DataprocGCSAWS S3GlueLambda

Tooling

GitDockerLinuxJupyterLaTeX
Contact

Tell me what you're trying to find out

I'm looking for full-time Data Scientist, Data Analyst and BI Analyst roles — healthcare and fintech especially. If you have a messy dataset and a decision riding on it, that's the conversation I want.

Boston, MA · open to any US location and remote · available immediately
authorized to work in the US on F-1 STEM OPT