Praveen Nair‍

(Nair rhymes with 🔥)

Other Experience

Teaching Assistantships

DSC 180A/B: Data Science Project

Professor: Suraj Rampure • Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024

In the capstone sequence, data science seniors work alongside faculty and industry mentors to learn about a domain area in the first quarter, and produce a unique project in the second quarter that they present at a showcase
Supervised capstone projects, providing advice and feedback on project scope, structure, and validity throughout a two-quarter sequence

DSC 80: The Practice and Application of Data Science

Professor: Tauhidur Rahman • Spring 2023

Led weekly discussion sections of 80-100 students, live-coding and explaining homework problems
Held really busy office hours, helped write + grade exams
100% students said they would recommend me as a TA (85.7% said they “strongly agreed” they would)
One evaluation said “he always wore the coolest shirts,” which I’m very happy about

Other Employment

Sports Editor, UCSD Guardian

Editor, September 2020 — June 2022; Staff Writer, April 2019 — September 2020

Wrote and edited for UCSD’s campus newspaper, mostly but not entirely about sports
Not sure if this is still true, but I was by some margin the Guardian’s active leader in articles written – I think I have about 76 total
You can read all the articles I wrote here!
With support from the Guardian, I also created Undefeated Since 1968, which is likely the coolest thing I’ve ever done

Machine Learning & Software Engineering Intern, Percolata

June 2020 — September 2020

Worked on software development of product for automating day trading strategies in Google Cloud Platform, including placing trades
Ran machine learning experiments on timeseries financial data with methods like ARIMA, LSTM, XGBoost, and others