Ayaan Merchant
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Bio

I'm a Computing Science and Business student at the University of Alberta, passionate about business strategy, technology, and using data to create community impact. I aspire to tell meaningful stories and build solutions as a Data Scientist and Data Engineer.

With a foundation in prescriptive analytics, operations management, statistics, and databases, I have experience with business analysis, mathematical modelling, and software development. Over the years, I've worked with several organizations in the public and private sector, contributing strategic marketing, business intelligence, and technical insights.

Most recently, as a Data Analytics and Research Intern at Aga Khan University, I led a scoping review on the use of AI in early childhood education and conducted mixed-methods analysis on healthcare data. I took initiative to migrate data workflows from SPSS to Python, improving efficiency by 50% and cutting manual effort by 30%.

Volunteerism and community impact are some of my other passions. I have built and led several initiatives, including co-founding the Business Club and a Junior Achievement Company. I've contributed to local, regional, national, and international initiatives in global development, economic empowerment, youth leadership, and more. Currently, I serve as the Marketing Strategist for Global Encounters, an international festival to celebrate arts and sports in Dubai.

Outside of academics and volunteering, I enjoy an active lifestyle: going to the gym, biking, and kickboxing.

Portals
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Advertising Social media marketing Information technology Software development Artificial intelligence

Skills

Ai/ml inference 1 Conversational ai 1 Explainable ai (xai) 1

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Work experience

Data Analytics and Research Intern
Aga Khan University
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
May 2024 - September 2024

- Conducting data analysis on healthcare data and presenting insights through visuals and clear documentation
- Initializing the migration of data workflows from SPSS to Python, increasing efficiency by 40%, while decreasing manual effort by 30% using Python libraries (Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn)
- Leading a scoping review on the use of AI in Early Childhood Education, synthesizing academic literature to identify research gaps
- Delivering workshops on generative AI to a group of non-technical researchers and the general public
- Conducting market research and laying a prototype of a maternal healthcare app

Business Analyst Intern
Ethically Aligned AI
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
September 2023 - February 2024

- Identified potential stakeholders in the public sector to recommend AI solutions
- Read AI documentation put out by international governments and performed external research to educate myself on AI ethics
- Created ethical frameworks in AI and interview guides to assess the needs of stakeholders
- Designed wireframes using Figma and developed a dynamic website using Wordpress (HTML5, Elementor) for an ERP company

Personal projects

Business Club Management System

A software solution to manage finances, event information, as well as membership status, attendance, and etc for a club

AI-Driven Financial Projections Analyzer

- Built RAG pipeline with Langchain using FinBERT + Flan-T5 APIs for sentiment analysis and LLM output generation
- Developed a data ingestion pipeline, extracting financial data into local and cloud vector databases, delivering functional prototype