About Me
Jain
Dog Lover| An Avid Throner | Intrigued By Numbers | Golden Bear Class of 2020
Dog Lover| An Avid Throner | Intrigued By Numbers | Golden Bear Class of 2020
After having served as the External Vice President (2017) and the Director of the Career Exploration Committee (2016) the year before, my journey at the Statistics Undergraduate Student Association (SUSA) culminates with Presidency. As president, my main roles include overseeing all tasks being taken on by all of SUSA's committees, assisting the Statistics Department in various activities and outreach, and developing a tight-knit community amongst our 100+ member body.
August 2018 - presentInstructing computer science students through private, one-hour online lessons in both Scratch and Python to teach them fundamental computer science concepts (loops, variables, conditionals, and algorithms).
June 2018 - presentImplemented an optimized version of Mentor's interpreter tool in C, used to parse Verilog code and process microchip designs. Flattened the interpretation tree by developing a suite of specific and inexpensive cases for 2-state and 4-state logical and selection operations, achieving an overall 15% optimized runtime
June 2018 - August 2018Full-stack development of an educational Carbon Cap & Trade game. Worked with MySQL, PHP, HTML, Python, and AWS to design and develop dynamic web pages using results queried from database. Implemented user-validation & managed storage of user session information
June 2017 - May 2018Researching “The Economic and Social Benefits of City-Integrated Photovoltaics for Urban Transportation” under esteemed Professor and Nobel Laureate Dan Kammen. Tasks include rigorous data collection of city attributes for 60+ cities to create datasets, developing a Randomized Forest algorithm to run a feature analysis on data, and using a Monte Carlo simulation to measure sensitivity of different attributes. Peer-reviewed publication in the Nature Journal expected by the end of 2018.
February 2017 - May 2018The American Enterprise Institute’s Summer Honors Program connects student leaders with the ideas, research and community of AEI, one of America’s preeminent think-tanks. The program is a series of one week, fully-funded educational and professional development sessions that provide students with a unique opportunity to jumpstart their careers alongside a network of peers from around the country. Sessions also include policy briefings, high-level networking opportunities, and site visits in D.C. I will be under the instruction of Dr. Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official, studying and understanding the Middle East challenge.
June 2017Developed an analysis model to evaluate risk in early-stage investments. Assessed decks, financial projections, and product summaries for startups. Cultivated contacts with VCs and 23 Silicon Valley startups across industries.
March 2017 - June 2017Joined Sports Analytics Group at Berkeley as part of the Basketball Committee, in which I am working on a project aiming to find trends in the data of shot-clock usage for NBA players, and how such trends might correlate to players’ awareness on the court. Working on scraping player data to construct visual models of such trends and possible correlations, with the objective of presenting the project at the 2017 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
October 2016Officially matriculated at University of California, Berkeley as Class of 2020. Intended Bachelors of Arts degree in Statistics.
August 2016After having served as Vice President the preceding year, and as Secretary/Treasurer the year before that, my Speech and Debate journey culminated in a presidency in my final year. As president, administrative tasks involved managing speech and debate events for 250+ students, running the local middle school program, creating financial projections for year’s activities, hiring a new Head Coach, and acting as a liaison between school admin and coaches.
August 2015As Treasurer, fundraised $1,250 for Reading Partners charity, facilitated the development of a school-wide tutoring service to assist falling-behind students, and committed to 100+ hours of volunteer work.
August 2015Worked a paid internship at startup Quettra Inc., aiming to personalize advertisement experiences for users on mobile applications. Worked closely with consumer data to analyze trends and build model personas for users.
June 2015 - August 2015As Secretary, administrative tasks involved managing events for 100+ students and facilitating district and state business conferences. Competed in International Business and Food Marketing Services divisions.
August 2014Coached 4th/5th graders twice per week on fundamentals of basketball; attended weekend games; sent weekly emails updating parents on student progress.
October 2012Researched and competed in the Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair (Regional level) and was awarded a cordial invitation to compete in the California State level fair. Competed in divisions of Social Sciences and Engineering. Also took part in Google Science Fair competition. Gained experience in project design and experimentation.
August 2012 - April 2014In-training for eight years. Received 1st degree Black-belt and served as an assistant black belt coach for lower ranks.
May 2008 - August 2016Python
Efficient Algorithms & Intractable Problems (CS170)
Java
Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs (CS61A)
C
Data Structures (CS61B)
R
Discrete Mathematics & Probability Theory (CS70)
PHP
Concepts in Computing with Data (STAT133)
MySQL
Concepts of Probability (STAT134)
HTML5
Concepts of Statistics (STAT135)
Bash
Foundations of Data Science (DS8)
LaTeX
Principles & Techniques of Data Science (DS100)
Git
Multivariable Calculus (MATH53)
AWS
Linear Algebra & Differential Equations (MATH54)
Microsoft Office
Information Systems & Devices I (EE16A)
Built a miniature Version Control System which implements a large subset of Git's commands. Repository: https://github.com/adish-jain/CS61B-Data-Structures/tree/master/Projects/Gitlet
Implemented the logic of a game similar to Checkers/Chess using advanced Java data structures. Developed an AI for the game using the famous Minimax algorithm, optimized using Alpha-Beta Pruning. Repository: https://github.com/adish-jain/CS61B-Data-Structures/tree/master/Projects/Qirkat
Developed a simplified Relational-Database Management System from the ground up, implementing a wide variety of SQL commands. Repository: https://github.com/adish-jain/CS61B-Data-Structures/tree/master/Projects/Databases
Developed an interpreter in Python for a subset of the Scheme programming language. Repository: https://github.com/adish-jain/cs61a/tree/master/projects/scheme
Used Python and basic machine learning techniques such as K-Means and Least-Squares Linear Regression to create a visualization of Berkeley's restaurant ratings from the Yelp academic dataset. Repository: https://github.com/adish-jain/cs61a/tree/master/projects/maps
Researching under Professor & Nobel Laureate Dan Kammen, to futher our understanding of the social and economic implications of integrating photovoltaic cells into global urban transportation. Research tasks include the rigorous data collection of city attributes for 60+ cities to create datasets, developing a Randomized Forest algorithm to run a feature analysis on data, and using a Monte Carlo simulation to measure sensitivity of different attributes. Expecting a publication in the Nature Journal by the end of the year. Findings: http://bit.ly/2wMEN0N. Repository: https://github.com/adish-jain/research
Engineered a thermoelectric generator using photovoltaics, which utilized the Peltier effect to produce enough electricity to charge a cell phone on-the-go. Integrated the compact system into a cooler (which provides a cool sink) that doubled as a cell phone charger, providing even more applicability and utility to the system. The project was submitted to the Synopsys Science & Engineering Fair, where it won 2nd place in the Engineering division and received the Ricoh Sustainable Development award. Board: http://bit.ly/2xzKNOz
Created a social website to connect senior citizens with other senior citizens and with students, in an effort to reduce social isolation amongst seniors. Overall, found that there were signs of decreased feelings of social isolation amongst participating senior citizens. The project was submitted to the Synopsys Science & Engineering Fair, where it won 1st place in the Social Sciences division and received a cordial invitation to participate in the California State Science Fair.