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Siva Karthik Boddapati - Resume

This document is a resume for Siva Karthik Boddapati. It summarizes his education, including degrees in actuarial science and business administration. It also lists his actuarial exam progress, professional experience as a business analyst and insurance intern, current research assistant and teaching assistant roles, projects undertaken, skills and extracurricular activities.

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BODDAPATI, SIVA KARTHIK

104 N LINCOLN STREET, APT # 204, URBANA 61801 + 1(817)7158384 boddapa2@illinois.edu

EDUCATION
Master of Science, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (UIUC) Jan 2016 May 2017(exp.)
Actuarial Science GPA: 3.33/4.00
Master of Business Administration, Birla Institute of Management Technology Jun 2012 Apr 2014
Insurance Business Management GPA: 6.99/10.0
Bachelor of Technology, Acharya Nagarjuna University Jun 2008 Apr 2012
Electronics and Communication Engineering GPA: 7.2/10.0

ACTUARIAL EXAMS
Exam P (Passed) Jan 17th 2017
Exam FM (sitting) Aug 14th 2017

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BUSINESS ANALYST, ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT. LTD, INDIA July 2014-Dec 2015
Responsible for requirement gathering and analysis, quality assurance, designing use-cases,
insurance domain training for software engineering team.
Successfully driven various project releases from requirement gathering till user-acceptance test.
Implemented user acceptance testing with a focus on documenting defects and executing test cases.
Identified process inefficiencies through gap analysis, suggested improvements, work-arounds to
improve TATs and bug resolution.
Received best employee (fresher) for my contributions to the company within a short span.

SUMMER INTERN, AVIVA LIFE INSURANCE, INDIA Apr 2013-June 2013


Benchmarking customer communication in AVIVA with that of industry competitors
Analyzed numerous Indian insurance companies in a comparative study focused on customer
communication/interaction and identified specific improvement areas.
Successfully achieved pre-defined project goals within half the time and was given an opportunity to
work on new set of goals.
Created a six-month action plan, working collaboratively with Avivas senior management, to
improve customer retention, orphan customer engagement and proactive customer interaction.
Designed new methods of interaction like interactive pdf statements, mobile-app and push-
notifications for Aviva's customer base.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT, DEPT. OF MATHEMATICS, UIUC Jan 2017-Present


Machine learning implementation of credibility theory and selective insurance pricing (ongoing)
Modelled insurance claim data using simple machine learning algorithms like Multinomial
regression and Decision Trees etc. to understand the data and to predict claim severity.
Identified dominant patterns in claim numbers/severities that are periodic and analyzed for possible
interpretations
Currently, working on analyzing various recommender frameworks to incorporate credibility model.

TEACHING ASSISTANT, DEPT. OF ECE, UIUC Aug 2016-Dec 2016


Worked as lab instructor at ECE 110 for two sessions a week, solely managing every aspect of the lab.
Taught and demonstrated students on various electronic devices, the concepts that they were
learning in class.
Successfully helped students building a tool or device that addressed a specific day-to-day problem.
PROJECTS
A MACHINE LEARNING GUIDE TO ACTUARIES (PROJECT UNDERTAKEN FOR SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES)
(Jan 2017 - Present)
Working as a graduate mentor for a team of undergrad students in creating a self-help guide for
machine learning applications in insurance.
Designed and implemented models to demonstrate the application of machine learning in various
insurance related scenarios.
Was responsible for designing project timeline, scope and deliverables.

COUNTRY COMPARISONS BY LIFE EXPECTANCY AND POPULATION DYNAMICS


(Jan 2016 May 2016)
Studied survival statistics across the United States, France, Japan, and Russia using Human
Mortality Database.
Comparisons were made based on complete life expectancy and population pyramids, which show
the population size by age.
Focused majorly on comparisons between the United States and Japan. Treated the United States as
a benchmark and Japan as a comparison because of its high life expectancy and aging population

FUZZY LOGIC BASED IMAGE ENHANCEMENT THROUGH DIFFERENT MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS


(Jan 2012 May 2012)
Implemented image enhancement through fuzzy logic using various membership functions
Created fuzzy sets using membership functions like Gaussian, Pi-shaped, S-shaped, and Z-shaped
etc. to determine the brightness over the gray scale of a pixel.
This proved to be a better technique in contrast to the traditional crisp set method by expanding the
brightness spectrum enabling better noise reduction.

CERTIFICATIONS
Actuarial Common Entrance Test (India) Dec 2013.
Property and Liability Insurance Principles (AINS 21) Oct 2014.
Licentiate Indian Insurance Institute April 2014.

TOOLS AND SKILLSET


Programming Language -Python (Numpy, Pandas, Scikit learn), MATLAB, C/C++.
Statistical and Analytical Packages- R, SAS (familiarity)
Machine Learning Techniques Clustering (K-means, SNMF), Classification (Logistic regression, Nave
Bayes, LDA/QDA) and Regression (Simple & multinomial, gradient decent, lasso) Methods

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Entrepreneur Cell BIMTECH: Worked as a student executive, nurturing various start-ups through the
incubation center of our institution.
Noesis (Pro-gaming club) BIMTECH: With a passion towards pc-gaming, worked as a founding
student member in creation and functioning of our gaming club. Actively organized many city level
gaming events.
Student Executive (Food conduit) BIMTECH: Worked as a student representative for food and
beverages quality control committee.
Founding member BEC Robotics club: Started a robotic training and development club to try inculcate
curiosity and vigor towards robotics among students.

HOBBIES AND OTHER INTERESTS


Video editing created promotional videos for various clubs and events at BIMTECH.
Singing trained in Indian classical music for 4 years.

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