1. RISHABH AGARWAL
31 River Court, Apartment 2310• Jersey City, 07310
(551) 998 7865• ra1841@nyu.edu| LinkedIn Profile –Rishabh Agarwal
Education:
New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), New York May 2016
Masters, Information Sciences GPA: 3.6/4.0
Relevant Coursework: Data Mining, Valuation, Foundations of Finance, Financial Accounting and Reporting, Corporate
Finance, Financial Information Systems, Real-time Big Data Analytics, Database Management Systems, Fundamental
Algorithms, Dealing with Data
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi University June 2012
B.E., Computer Engineering
Professional Work Experience:
The AAT Project
IT Analyst June 2015-Present
Collecting and defining requirements, participating in technical design, construction and testing of new or existing
applications.
Working in collaboration with the business stakeholders and technical team from validating requirements to
implementing solutions.
Designed the official website and database architecture for AAT (Technology: SQL, HTML, CSS, PHP)
Assisted in compiling annual Operating budget and income statement projections.
Samsung Research Institute (SRI)-India June 2012-July 2014
Software Engineer
Project Lead for Kitkat and Jellybean Android upgradation projects at Samsung India. Aided launch of 2+ Samsung
Tablets in 70+ countries with 50+ international teams.
Identified problems, recommended improvements and worked in collaboration with Samsung Korea office to
implement issue resolution.
Created plan for implementing a location based automation application in Tizen platform, led a team of 6 members
and took up the UI creation.
Identified roadblocks and proposed solutions for mobile editors in CIS languages that were effective for a $50 million
project.
Conducted Unit, Integrated and User Acceptance Testing(UAT) for Samsung Mobile phones.
Mentored a team of 30 recruits for domain specific training for a period of 2 weeks.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu June 2011-July 2011
Provided Information Risk Assessments, Business Development Strategies for reputed clients of Deloitte.
Academic Projects:
Dealing with Data Project: Analyzed the impact of 3 pointers in a basketball game through 2007-2015 using SQL
and Tableau.
Data Mining Project: Applied principles of Data Mining to identify patient readmission rate in hospitals using
classification models like J48 Tree, Logistic Regression and Naïve Bayes. (Tool used: Weka)
Corporate Finance Project: Applied principles of corporate finance to valuate IBM using Discounted Cash Flow,
Option Pricing and Relative Valuation models based on the fundamentals taught by Professor Aswath Damodaran.
(NYU Stern).
Valuation Project: Applied principles of Valuation to valuate money losing company (Twitter) using valuation
models like DCF, Option Pricing and Relative Valuation.
Big Data Project: Analyzed twitter sentiments across all US counties using big data technologies like Storm and
Elastic search. (Programming language: Java)
Capstone Project: Build a data warehouse for start-up Salido that provides real-time updates to the web application.
Followed Agile Methodology, worked on tools like Basecamp, Agile Trello Board.
(Programming language: JavaScript, SQL)
Finance Experience:
Teaching Assistant for MBA core finance course: Foundations of Finance (Fall 2015) under Prof. Itamar
Drechsler and Prof Eduardo Davila (Spring 2016). Reinforcing topics presented in class including equity derivatives,
fixed income securities, CAPM, Gordon Growth Model, Valuation (DCF, Relative, Option Pricing) to students.
Teaching Assistant for MBA core Finance course: Financial Accounting and Reporting (2015) under Prof
Ron Shalev. Reinforcing topics presented in class including analyzing financial statements (balance sheet, income
statement, statement of retained earnings, cash flow statement), principles of accounting like revenue recognition,
matching principle, bad debts, FIFO, LIFO, Depreciation, Amortization etc to students.
2. Research Assistant for Financial Accounting and Reporting (Summer 2015): Stern School of Business under
Prof. Ron Shalev.
Analyzed financial statements of 500+ companies to determine what factors (like duration of contract, warranty,
audit frequency, collateral, trade credit, Insurance etc.) affect contracts made by these companies with other
counterparties for a research paper.
Technical Skills:
Programming Languages: C, C++, HTML, CSS, Java, SQL, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Perl
Others: Windows, Unix, Data Structures and Algorithms, Microsoft Office, Oracle, Visio, Bloomberg, SPSS,
Weka, Tableau ,Hadoop, MySQL
Awards and Certification:
Student Coordinator for NGO Universal Peace Federation (UPF) of India.
Assistant Director of Event Management of MACS Leadership Board, NYU.
Active member of GSAS Master’s College Program Board.
Co- Convener (Publicity) of Annual Technical Festival INNOVISION. Managed team of 50 juniors.