MSc Data Science · University of Nottingham · Graduating September 2026

MANOJ
CHANDRA

DATA ANALYSIS · DATA SCIENCE · MATHEMATICS

I build production data products and rigorous statistical analyses. My work spans API-driven web applications, forecasting, classification, databases, and applied machine learning.

001
1ST PLACE
002
10+ PROJECTS
003
TOP 1%
004
FIRST CLASS
Data visualization
MANOJ
CHANDRA

TRAINING MYSELF BEFORE I CAN TRAIN ML MODELS

Data
DATA · CODE · MATHEMATICS
// About in Brief

EMBRACING THE
UNKNOWN

I'm an MSc Data Science student at the University of Nottingham, where I expect to graduate in September 2026. I hold a First-Class Honours degree in Mathematics from the University of Delhi, and I work at the point where statistical theory meets practical data problems.

My recent work includes a live World Cup sleep-planning product built with Hermai.ai, a road-collision severity study selected as a teaching exemplar, seasonal ARIMA forecasts for East Midlands house prices, the privacy-first file converter DeltaConvert, and the LSTM currency forecasting application Stochastix.

I care about understanding how a model reaches its answer, testing it properly, and presenting the result clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

// Projects
THINGS I'VE BUILT
// 002
CLIENT CONSULTANCY · LIVE
REST API · CI/CD · DATA QA

FIFA WORLD CUP SLEEP PLANNER FOR HERMAI.AI

Built an end-to-end data product during a University of Nottingham micro-placement. Pulled and validated 104 World Cup fixtures through Hermai.ai's API, modelled sleep disruption across time zones, and published the result as a live site. The production pipeline redeploys every six hours and stops the build when a data load is incomplete or invalid.

FULL-STACK · LIVE
Flask · Docker · Nginx

DELTACONVERT

Privacy-first file conversion tool for images, documents, and OCR, all processed server-side. Built with Flask, deployed on Hetzner with Docker Compose, Nginx, and SSL via Certbot.

DEEP LEARNING · LIVE
LSTM · React · Plotly

STOCHASTIX

LSTM-based 30-day currency exchange rate forecaster. 29 trained models, React frontend with interactive Plotly charts, daily ECB audit cron job.

ACADEMIC · R · 1ST PLACE
R · XGBoost · OLS

STATISTICAL ML, BEST SCORE BOTH CHALLENGES

Chemicals: Per-type linear regression beating Random Forest (score 98, 1st of all groups). Trains: XGBoost on Sheffield–Nottingham increment (MSE 28,078). MATH4069 coursework.

ACADEMIC · DISTINCTION
PYTHON · NESTED CV · STATS19

KSI ROAD-COLLISION SEVERITY PREDICTION

Compared Logistic Regression, Random Forest, RBF SVM, and Multi-Layer Perceptron models on 29,628 UK STATS19 records. Built leakage-free per-fold pipelines under nested cross-validation, used Wilcoxon signed-rank tests for model comparison, and found Random Forest strongest on macro-F1. The module convenor selected the submission as a teaching exemplar for the next cohort.

TIME SERIES · R
SARIMA · BOX–JENKINS · FORECASTING

EAST MIDLANDS HOUSE-PRICE FORECASTING

Built two seasonal ARIMA models on ten years of monthly UK house-price data. Selected orders from ACF and PACF diagnostics, produced six-month forecasts with 80% and 95% prediction intervals, checked residuals with Ljung–Box tests, and wrote a one-page planning summary for a non-technical local-government audience.

FULL-STACK · DISTINCTION
PHP · MySQL · Docker

QMC HOSPITAL DATABASE & WEB PORTAL

PHP/MySQL hospital management system with role-based access, patient search, admissions, prescriptions, parking permits, and a custom audit trail. Graded Distinction at UoN.

// Projects (cont.)
SIMULATIONS & EDA
// 002b
FORAGE SIMULATION

BRITISH AIRWAYS DS

Web scraping 2,000+ reviews with BeautifulSoup, NLP sentiment analysis, and Random Forest booking prediction model.

FORAGE SIMULATION

BCG GENAI CHATBOT

AI-powered financial chatbot parsing 10-K and 10-Q reports with rule-based logic to provide user-friendly corporate insights.

EDA · PYTHON

BANKS FINANCE ANALYSIS

10-year exploratory analysis of 6 major banks' stock data (2014–2024) using Pandas, Matplotlib, and Seaborn.

// Skills
WHAT I WORK WITH
// 003

LANGUAGES

  • Python
  • R
  • SQL / MySQL
  • HTML / CSS
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • C++
  • Wolfram Mathematica
  • LaTeX

ML & DATA

  • Scikit-learn
  • XGBoost
  • TensorFlow / Keras
  • Pandas / NumPy
  • Statistical Modelling
  • Time Series
  • Nested Cross-validation
  • Decision Trees / KNN
  • Clustering
  • NLTK / PySpark

VISUALISATION

  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn
  • Plotly
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • MS Excel
  • XLOOKUP / VLOOKUP
  • Pivot Tables
  • Power Query
  • ggplot2

TOOLS & INFRA

  • Docker
  • Git / GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • REST APIs
  • Nginx
  • React
  • Flask / Django
  • Jupyter
  • RStudio
// Education
WHERE I STUDIED
// 004
2025 – SEPTEMBER 2026

MSC DATA SCIENCE

University of Nottingham, UK

Machine Learning, Statistical ML, Big Data, Databases, Time Series & Forecasting, and Data Science

Dissertation: A Complete Methodological Investigation of Mondrian Forest in Machine Learning.

SOUTH ASIA POSTGRADUATE EXCELLENCE AWARD
2019 – 2022

BSC (HONS) MATHEMATICS

University of Delhi, India

First-Class Honours. Modules included Probability, Statistics, Economics, Mathematical Finance, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Mathematical Modelling, Differential Equations, Discrete Mathematics, C++, R, Mathematica, LaTeX, and HTML.

INSPIRE SCHOLARSHIP FOR TOP 1% NATIONALLY
// Experience and Past Roles

EXPERIENCE

JUN – JUL 2026
STUDENT CONSULTANT (DATA ANALYST) AT HERMAI.AI

One of two student data analysts engaged through the University of Nottingham micro-placement programme. Worked directly with the co-founder, built a production product from 104 API-supplied World Cup fixtures, added data-quality checks, and set up six-hourly redeployment through GitHub Actions.

Live project ↗
OCT – DEC 2024
AI TRAINER (MATHEMATICS) AT OUTLIER AI

QA on AI-generated mathematical models. Evaluated calculus and algebra outputs for hallucination and factual accuracy. Developed complex maths questions to improve model comprehension.

MAY – JUL 2024
DATA SCIENCE INTERN AT THE SPARKS FOUNDATION

Built supervised and unsupervised ML models (linear regression, K-means clustering). Created detailed visualisations. Conducted 15 peer reviews and supported fellow interns.

2018 – PRESENT
MATHEMATICS TUTOR (PRIVATE FREELANCE)

Tutoring primary and secondary school students in mathematics. 100% pass rate in final exams. Focus on building problem-solving intuition through interactive, positive learning environments.

Mathematics
DATA × MATH × CODE
// Interests & Memberships
BEYOND PROJECT WORK
// 006
University Society

HIKING & RAMBLING

Active member of the University of Nottingham Hiking and Rambling Society. Regular group walks and weekend rambles provide balance alongside postgraduate study and support teamwork with students from a wide range of backgrounds.

Professional Membership · 2026–Present

INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Student member of the IMA, with an ongoing interest in applied mathematics, statistics, and the connection between mathematical reasoning and practical data work.

// Contact

LET'S
CONNECT