Vikram Rao
San Francisco, California, United States
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Experience
Education
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Princeton University
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Activities and Societies: The Daily Princetonian – Sports, Princeton South Asian Theatrics, Princeton Sports Symposium (organizer), Princeton Alumni Weekly
Coursework includes:
• Multivariable Calculus
• Linear Algebra
• Fundamentals of Engineering Statistics
• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Internet Auctions: Theory and Practice
• Advanced Programming Techniques
• Social Networks
• The Internet and Public Policy
• High-Tech Entrepreneurship -
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Entered with PhD cohort in Fall 2013, earned M.A. in December 2014, finished coursework and departed the University in June 2015
Coursework includes:
• Machine Learning
• Graph Theory
• Bayesian Statistics
• Bayesian Networks
• Network Economics and Game Theory
• Experimental Design
• Optimization
• Price Theory
• Mechanism Design
• Mathematical Statistics and Identification
• Cross-Sectional Econometric Theory
• Time Series Econometric Theory
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Activities and Societies: The Daily Urinal, Jazz Band, Middle School Basketball (C Team)
La Jolla, CA
• Recipient of Bishop's Medal (12th grade)
• The Daily Urinal: Editor-in-Chief (12th grade), Assistant Editor (11th grade), Staff Writer (10th grade)
• Notched 2 passes defensed and 1 sack as a 5-Technique Defensive End against Rancho Santa Fe Middle School for Middle School Flag Football D Team (7th grade)
• In "revenge game" against The Rhoades School, provided a spark off the bench with 4 points and 4 rebounds for Middle School Basketball C Team (7th grade)
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Activities and Societies: Chess Club, Middle School Basketball (B Team)
Encinitas, CA
• Received S (equivalent to C ) in handwriting (2nd grade)
• Placed 2nd in Middle School Geography Bee after falling in the finals to an 8th grader who was a Geography Bee veteran (6th grade)
• Answered assorted sports trivia questions in PE, thus permitting entire class to run fewer laps (2nd-6th grade)
• Received 5 trophies from Chess Club (3rd-4th grade)
• Played third string forward (ability to play either 3 or 4 depending on surrounding personnel, similar…Encinitas, CA
• Received S (equivalent to C ) in handwriting (2nd grade)
• Placed 2nd in Middle School Geography Bee after falling in the finals to an 8th grader who was a Geography Bee veteran (6th grade)
• Answered assorted sports trivia questions in PE, thus permitting entire class to run fewer laps (2nd-6th grade)
• Received 5 trophies from Chess Club (3rd-4th grade)
• Played third string forward (ability to play either 3 or 4 depending on surrounding personnel, similar to future San Diego State University star and eventual two-time NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard) for Middle School Basketball B Team (6th grade) -
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Encinitas, CA
• Was called into principal's office only once for misbehavior
• Ate gratuitous amounts of Play-Doh
• Mediated multiple playground disputes
• School campus has since been converted to a pet daycare center
Projects
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Exploratory Analysis of Historical NFL Data
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This is an informal research project exploring historical professional football statistics which I downloaded from www.profootballreference.com. For now, I have focused on team win-loss records and a few other season-level statistics over time. I created functions in Python to explore the data, then created a few statistics of my own which I plotted and ran through regression models and a Hodrick-Prescott Filter using R. Preliminary analysis of the data suggests that contrary to popular…
This is an informal research project exploring historical professional football statistics which I downloaded from www.profootballreference.com. For now, I have focused on team win-loss records and a few other season-level statistics over time. I created functions in Python to explore the data, then created a few statistics of my own which I plotted and ran through regression models and a Hodrick-Prescott Filter using R. Preliminary analysis of the data suggests that contrary to popular beliefs, parity in the NFL has fallen in recent years.
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A Two-Sided Market Framework for Network Neutrality Using Statics and Dynamics
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This paper began as my senior thesis at Princeton and I continued to work on parts of it following graduation. Using a two-sided market framework with a monopolist last-mile internet service provider, I studied how network neutrality legislation would impact social welfare. The paper contains a theoretical section that characterizes profit and welfare-maximizing price levels and a market simulation written in Java. The simulator uses a gradient ascent optimization algorithm to solve for profit…
This paper began as my senior thesis at Princeton and I continued to work on parts of it following graduation. Using a two-sided market framework with a monopolist last-mile internet service provider, I studied how network neutrality legislation would impact social welfare. The paper contains a theoretical section that characterizes profit and welfare-maximizing price levels and a market simulation written in Java. The simulator uses a gradient ascent optimization algorithm to solve for profit and welfare-maximizing price levels under various assumptions about model parameters.
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The Impact of Education and Marital Status on the Use of Cesarean Section
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This is an empirical paper examining how the Cesarean Section medial procedure is affected by non-clinical factors. Past research had shown that in many cases, socioeconomic factors had a surprisingly large influence on whether a woman chose to have a C-Section. Using the Fragile Families dataset, I provided evidence to the contrary. The data analysis was done in Stata and involved creation of new variables and logistical regression.
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