Madras School of Economics
Chennai
Master of Arts in Applied Quantitative Finance
2023 – 2025
Sai Prakash
Education
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Online
BS in Data Science and Applications
2024 – Present
Central University of Tamil Nadu
Thiruvarur
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
2020 – 2023
Experience
MicroSave Consulting (MSC) | Research Intern
Dec 2025 – March 2026
UNDP – Climate Adaptation Finance Study
- Designed a multi-criteria district prioritisation framework for a UNDP-commissioned study, scoring 50+ districts across hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity indicators to guide field selection
- Mapped climate finance flows and scheme-wise expenditure across Jharkhand and Odisha; benchmarked state plans against national/global frameworks to identify adaptation financing gaps
- Built QGIS visualisations for district shortlisting and block-level outputs across districts, directly informing final site selection decisions
Portfolio Stress Testing & Net Zero Strategy
- Fed an MFI stress-testing model with district-level risk indicators, built by OCR-digitising government PDFs and Python-scraping 200+ media reports, to simulate loan losses under multiple climate hazards
- Quantified Scope 3 GHG emissions across all applicable categories for MSC's net zero strategy, delivering findings as a client-ready presentation deck
Projects
Time Series Forecasting | R, ARIMA/SARIMA, ADF Test, ggplot2
2025
- Built an ARIMA forecasting model on 5 years of SpiceJet price data; performed stationarity testing (ADF), differencing, and ACF/PACF-based model identification
- Evaluated model performance using RMSE and MAPE, presenting forecast diagnostics and residual analysis as part of an academic study
Regional Climate Cooperation Analysis | Climate Policy, Integrated Assessment Models
2025
- Used the RICE-2013 model to compare cooperative vs competitive climate strategies among the US, EU, China, and India; cooperation lowers emissions and slows warming, but benefits remain uneven
- Suggested fairness measures such as technology sharing and climate finance to sustain long-term cooperation
News Sentiment and Stock Direction Prediction | Python, pandas, BeautifulSoup, scikit-learn
2024
- Built an end-to-end pipeline combining news sentiment with historical stock data to predict next-day price direction for Reliance Industries using multiple ML models
- Collected and processed 8,000+ financial news articles via web scraping, engineered sentiment and market features, and evaluated models using cross-validation and precision/accuracy metrics
Certifications
Open Course in Public Policy | Takshashila Institution
2025
Python 101 for Data Science | Cognitive Class, IBM
2025
R for Data Science | Cognitive Class, IBM
2025
Advanced SQL | Kaggle
2025
Technical Skills
Languages: Python, R, Julia, SQL, LaTeX
Machine Learning: Regression, Classification, Clustering, NLP algorithms
Data Analysis & Visualization Tools: Power BI, Google Looker/Data Studio, Stata, MS Excel