Tiya Chokhani

Quantitative Strategist - Corporate Treasury (Portfolio Strategy)

Learned accelerated Python data science course; studied data cleaning, machine learning, and data visualizations. Attended workshops on technical profile building, creating a resume, and how to prepare for Technical Interviews.

Web scrapped Bundesliga match data for 2021/2022 and half of the 2023 season and used it to develop a machine-learning model to predict match winners for the rest of the 2023 season using scikit-learn

Worked as a Production Assistant on a student-led film called "Overworked". Attended workshops on crew etiquette on set, editing on Adobe Premiere Pro, and a workshop by Mark Freiburger.

Created a website using HTML and CSS for trans youth to read trans adults’ stories and connect them while also allowing users to leave reviews about how comfortable they were at healthcare centers they’ve visited. Participated in workshops on Introduction to React, Python, Deep Learning, and Careers in Game Dev.

Part of a 15 person team designing, building, and coding robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams in the First Tech Challenge. Took part in 2 international level competitions (FTC UK and Iowa), ranked 1st in one. Head of finance and social media, also heavily involved in the building process for the bot. Used CAD software to design the bot, used Java to program it and learned how to use power tools and metalworking to build it from scratch. Created presentations to talk to sponsors for fundraising purposes and made an 'engineering journal' which contained a detailed account of everything , from the building of the bot to the presentations.

Presented a project on gender bias on Mumbai street names. Created model to predict the probability of selecting a major at university based on high school subjects.

Planned and organised the International Youth Conference, a 2 day MUN with over 200 delegates. Part of the executive board for the committee GMC (the media committee), planned and wrote the agenda, oversaw committee proceedings, reviewed delegates work and nominated delegates for awards.

Final IB score: 43/45 Academic Honors: Outstanding achievement in the May 2022 IBDP Examination, Subject Awards in Math AA, Economics, Physics & Psychology, Cambridge ICE Distinction certificate Math AA, Economics & Physics at Higher level Hindi, English & Psychology at Standard level