Harvard University

PhD Student in Finance at NYU Stern School of Business

New York, New York, United States

NYU Stern School of Business

PhD Student in Finance at NYU Stern

Assisted in household finance research for Professor Arpit Gupta about unemployment expectations, consumption, and transportation. Analyzed big data-sets with machine learning using PySpark and Hadoop on high performance computing clusters. Assembled and clean messy and unstructured public data-sets with Unix and Stata to run regressions on in Python. Worked with NYU's high performance computing and Hadoop clusters to run jobs through the command line using various languages and techniques in the big data workflow. Worked with modern, non-traditional data (mobile phone location data) to get novel insights about behavior. Host and update GitHub repositories for version management of projects.

Junior Research Scientist

Consulted for financial clients though a data-based approach using SQL, Python, R, and Excel to gain insights about customer behavior from unstructured data sets with millions of rows. Created presentations visualizing the data using Powerpoint, Excel, Python, and Thinkcell. Used Python and R to clean data and perform univariate, multiple, and random forest regressions, and model based recursive partitioning.

Novantas

Associate

Consulted for financial clients though a data based approach using SQL and Excel to gain insights about customer behavior. Strategized actionable recommendations based on those insights to guide clients through deliverables in Manifold GIS and Power Point. Traveled with clients to investigate the data based insights and to fully vet recommendations.

Summer Associate

Built an economic model using Excel and Matlab for Ontario Telemedicine Network to analyze the incentives and disincentives for doctors to adopt telemedicine. Analyzed data, created and presented a 50 slide presentation to management demonstrating the economic benefits of telemedicine for doctors, patients, and the government.

Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)

Economic Consultant

Managed the City College site of LGR, a non-profit college readiness program for underserved students. Recruited and vetted applications for 60 students and 10 volunteer coaches. Organized a college trip, career day, and classroom space for the students.

Let's Get Ready

City College Site Director

Delivered food and other packages via bicycle to consumers.

Postmates

Courier

Shadowed two Otolaryngologists, watched surgeries, participated in rounds and clinic.

Weill Cornell Medical College

Physician Observer

Tutored two classes of underserved students for the Math, Reading, and Writing sections of the SAT’s. Advised students about the college admissions process and helped students brainstorm, revise, and edit their personal statements for the college application.

Volunteer SAT Tutor and Counselor

Rodeph Sholom School

Summer Camp Counselor

Immunology research lab intern. Created presentations and slide shows for  the lab, performed experiments on CAR T-Cell treatment efficacy using flow cytometer and accompanying software for data analysis.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Research Lab Intern

Head coach for 6th and 7th grade girls of a nonprofit community-based recreational basketball league. Designed workouts, drills. Communicated with parents, served as a mentor to middle school girls

Josh Coven