Anshul Rathore

About

Economics undergraduate at IIT Bombay with experience in finance-oriented competitions, data-driven projects, and campus leadership. Interested in financial analysis, machine learning for finance, and operations optimization.

Experience

• Manager | Events & Operations | Sustainability Cell, Hostel Affairs Council
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  Jun 2026 – Present

Education

• 4 Year B.S.
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  Economics · Jul 2024 – 2028

Skills

• Python
• Financial Modeling
• Natural Language Processing
• Valuations
• Faiss
• Llama
• Finbert

Projects

• Earnings Call Intelligence System
  NLP, Retrieval, SBERT, FAISS, UMAP, HDBSCAN, TF-IDF, MySQL, Llama 3.1 8B

  Built semantic retrieval over 4,644 chunks from 76 transcripts, applied clustering and validation, and designed a MySQL schema with a local LLM summarization pipeline.

• Financial News Sentiment Classifier
  FinBERT, Python

  Fine-tuned FinBERT on 4,840 labeled financial sentences and merged sentiment scores with price history for correlation analysis.

• Real-Time Food Delivery Optimization
  Course Project

  Designed a 3-party system with a self-sustaining model, synthesized affinity clusters into insights, and conducted usability tests to inform strategy revisions.

• Deep RL for Stock Trading Optimization
  Gymnasium, PPO, MACD, RSI, Python

  Built a trading environment, trained a PPO agent, and benchmarked it against an LSTM-based supervised model.

🏆 Achievements & awards

• JEE Advanced top 2.31 percentile · 2024

  Ranked among the top 2.31 percentile in JEE Advanced among 2.5+ lakh candidates across India.

• JEE Mains 99.38 percentile · 2024

  Achieved an overall 99.38 percentile in JEE Mains among 14+ lakh candidates across India.

⚽ Extracurricular activities

• Bizarro competition finalist

  Shortlisted among the top 8 teams across all IITs for the sales pitch strategy competition.

• Drone design and build

  Designed and built a quadcopter drone along with a custom joystick controller for wireless operation.

• JEE Advanced mentor

  Mentored JEE Advanced students through the Druva-JEE initiative of NSS, IIT Bombay.