Malaika Tabassum

Data Science and Investment Advisory

• Developing investment/data products, writing user stories, and collaborating with developers, and other team members to reach milestones.
• Conducting macroeconomic research and analyzing market trends and statistics to support the decision-making process, including using models like LLMs, ML techniques, and statistical tools.
• Building and planning frameworks for data pipelines and processes, and generating actionable insights.
• Applied NLP techniques for sentiment analysis in news data.
• Devised ESG portfolio strategies while tracking performance and volatility.
• Analyzed several statistical approaches to optimize and model investment portfolios.
• Developed chatbot using generative AI models.
• Developed framework for economic impact assessment for the GCC region by utilizing statistical tools and techniques, including developing Input-Output model for KSA
• Executed orders on trade desk with brokers

Corporate Finance

• Worked on several assignments including feasibility studies, financial modeling, capital structuring
• Conducted comprehensive cross-border regulatory review and evaluated regulatory frameworks for REIT for megacity project and crafted a strategic proposal for the same
• Client coordination and presentations
• Evaluated multiple startups for advisory (agritech, ecommerce, healthtech, fintech, logistics etc.)

• Facilitated communication to ensure successful editorial functions between writers and clients.
• Oversaw the recruitment and training of new writers and editors.
• Responsible for ensuring the context, tone, and voice of the content resonate with the clients' ideas.

• Delivered high-quality, SEO-optimized content tailored to finance, entrepreneurship, technology, and business topics.

• Acted as an intermediary between finance experts and data scientists, and helped them develop a better risk-sensitive optimization function for RL-based portfolio optimization.

• Rotational internship in Accounts, Compliance, Research and IT departments within the company

• Identified underserved districts in KPK and allocated agri-credit disbursement in the region efficiently
• Identified and analyzed trends and practices in women entrepreneurship