Awards and Honors of Data Mining and Business Analytics Certificate Students
Published on July 22, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Here are some of the many achievements of our students. You can view the award pictures in the photo gallery.
- Winner of one SAS Ambassador Award (highest honor given by SAS to 10 students worldwide): Mantosh Sarkar at SAS Global Forum 2013.
- Winner of one SAS Ambassador honorable mentions (given by SAS to 10 students worldwide): Srikar Rayabaram at SAS Global Forum 2013.
- Winner of three global forum student scholar awards (given by SAS to 10 students worldwide): Pankush Kalgotra, Anil Pantangi and Yu Fu at SAS Global Forum 2013.
- Many OSU students, faculty and alums presented papers on topics such as text mining, customer segmentation and predictive modeling at the SAS Global Forum 2013.
- Feature Extraction and Rating of a Smartphone Photosharing Application Using SAS® Sentiment Analysis Studio by Anil Kumar Pantangi, Goutam Chakraborty, Sahithi Ravuri and Siddhartha Reddy Mandati
- Predictive Modeling in Sports Leagues: An Application in the Indian Premier League by Pankush Kalgotra, Ramesh Sharda and Goutam Chakraborty.
- Opinion Mining and Geo-positioning of Textual Feedback from Professional Drivers by Mantosh Sarkar and Goutam Chakraborty
- Using Text Analysis to Gain Insight into Organizational Change by Douglas by Van Daele, Gary Gaeth, Goutam Chakraborty, Jiawen Liu and Musthan Kader Ibrahim Meeran Mohideen
- Feature-Based Sentiment Analysis on Android App Reviews Using SAS® Text Miner and SAS® Sentiment Analysis Studio by Goutam Chakraborty, Jiawen Liu and Mantosh Kumar Sarkar
- Analysis of Change in Sentiments towards Chick-fil-A after Dan Cathy’s Statement about Same-Sex Marriage Using SAS® Text Miner and SAS® Sentiment Analysis Studio by Goutam Chakraborty, Jeffin Jacob, and Swati Grover.
- A Comparison of Model Building via RPM in SAS® Enterprise Guide® versus SAS® Enterprise Miner™ by Srikar Rayabaram and Goutam Chakraborty
- Optimize SAS/IML® Software Codes for Big Data Simulation by Chao Huang, Goutam Chakraborty, and Yu Fu
- Investigating the Impact of Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7” on Amazon.com Consumers Using SAS® Text Miner and SAS® Sentiment Analysis by Srihari Nagarajan, Hari Harasudhan, and Goutam Chakraborty
- Getting an Overview of SAS® Data in Three Steps by Yu Fu , Shirmeen Virji, Miriam McGaugh, and Goutam Chakraborty.
- Application of Text Mining in Tweets to Analyze General Opinion about “Bing It On” Challenge by Microsoft by Shreya Sadhukhan, Taufique Ansari and Goutam Chakraborty.
- Impact of London Olympics According to Tweeters by Shirmeen Virji, Yu Fu and Goutam Chakraborty
- Top 10 Most Powerful Functions for PROC SQL by Chao Huang, and Yu Fu
- Adding Graph Visualization on SAS® ODS Output by Yu Fu, Shirmeen Virji, Miriam McGaugh and Goutam Chakraborty
- %GetReviews: A SAS® Macro to Retrieve User Reviews in JSON Format from Review Websites and Create SAS® Data Sets by Ganesh Badisa, Siddhartha Mandati and Goutam Chakraborty
- Data Set Compression Using COMPRESS= by Musthan Kader Ibrahim Meeran Mohideen, Srikar Rayabaram, Srinivas Reddy Busi Reddy
- Product Affinity Segmentation That Uses the Doughnut Clustering Approach by Darius Baer and Goutam Chakraborty
- Extension Node to the Rescue of the Curse of Dimensionality via Weight of Evidence (WOE) Recoding by Andrew Cathie; Goutam Chakraborty, and Satish Garla
- Leveraging Big Data Using SAS® High-Performance Analytics Server by Priya Sharma
- Life’s a Song! Mining Country Music Topics Using SAS® Text Miner by Deovrat Kakde, Neetha Sindhu, and Saurabh Ghanekar
- 2nd place student team in the A2012 Data Mining Shootout: Juan Ma, Isaac Pisors and Matthew Dale Rumsey and Shirmeen Virji and
- Honorable mention student team in the A2012 Data Mining Shootout: Vinay Emmadi, Gautam Mehta and Atul Thatte
- Honorable mention student team in the A2012 Data Mining Shootout: Aditya Gokhale, Swati Grover, Jeffin Jacob and Srihari Jaganathan
- Winners of one of the top-5 student posters awarded at A2012 conference: Akkarapol Sa-ngasoongsong
- Seventeen posters were presented by OSU students at the A2012 conference as per details below:
- Akkarapol Sa-ngasoongsong, Multi-Step Sales Forecasting in Automotive Industry
- Ganesh Badisa, Evaluation of Movie Reviews by SAS Text Mining
- Jiawen Liu, Opinion mining of Android app reviews
- Mantosh Kumar Sarkar, SAS Sentiment Analysis Studio to Help Uncover Customer Sentiments
- Musthan Kader Meeran Mohideen, Management Intervention in a Hospital using SAS Text Miner
- Pankush Kalgotra, Neural Network and Bidding in Sports League
- Pankush Kalgotra, Square Matrix Parallelization in Big Data
- Parijat Ghosh, Predicting User Ratings and Recommendations of Airlines
- Sree Deepak Kothapalli, Data Visualization in Higher Education-Enrollment Management
- Srihari Jaganathan, Building Predictive Models with Small Data
- Siddhartha Reddy Mandati, Application of SAS Text Mining to Summarize E-commerce Customer Reviews
- Srikar Rayabaram Prabhakar, A Comparison Rapid Predictive Modeler (RPM) vs. f Enterprise Miner
- Sriram Ghattamaneni, Decision Tree based Splitting Rules to Predict Check Deposit Fraud
- Sriram Ghattamaneni, The Game Prophet
- Swati Grover, Analysis of change in sentiments towards Chick-Fil-A
- Vengatasubramani Dhatchinamoo, Predicting Amazon’s Best Seller Rank for Books
- Yu Fu, Impact of London Olympics 2012 on the Economy of England
- Winner of three SAS Ambassador Awards (highest honor given by SAS to 10 students worldwide): Manoj Inmadi, Zubair Shaik and Ning Song at SAS Global Forum 2012.
- Winner of four SAS Ambassador honorable mentions (given to 10 students worldwide): Michael Faron, Akkarapol Sa-ngasoongsong, Yogen Shah and Sumit Sukhwani at SAS Global Forum 2012.
- Winner of one conference scholarship award (given to 10 students worldwide): Hari Hara Sudhan at SAS Global Forum 2012.
- Seven OSU students and four alum presented papers on topics such as text mining, customer segmentation and predictive modeling at the SAS Global Forum 2012.
- Analysis of Clickstream Data Using SAS® by Sukhwani, Sumit; Chakraborty, Goutam; Garla, Satish
- Classification of Customers’ Textual Responses via Application of Topic Mining by Pantangi, Anil K.; Chakraborty, Goutam
- Comparison of K-Means, Normal Mixtures and Probabilistic-D Clustering for B2B Segmentation Using Customers’ Perceptions by Garla, Satish; Gaeth, Gary; Chakraborty, Goutam
- Application of Time Series Clustering Using SAS® Enterprise Miner™ for a Retail Chain by Nakkeeran, Karthik; Garla, Satish; Chakraborty, Goutam
- SAS® Since 1976: An Application of Text Mining to Reveal Trends by Shaik, Zubair; Garla, Satish; Chakraborty, Goutam
- Easily Add Significance Testing to your Market Basket Analysis in SAS® Enterprise Miner™ by Faron, Michael; Chakraborty, Goutam
- Investigating Host Plant Resistance to Aphid Feeding through SAS® Text Miner by Song, Ning; Liu, Jiawen; Chakraborty, Goutam; Anstead, James A.
- Analyzing Sentiments in Tweets about Wal-Mart’s Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Verdict Using SAS® Text Miner by Duraidhayalu, Hari Hara Sudhan; Garla, Satish; Chakraborty, Goutam (Selected as the best contributed paper in the track of Social Media and Networking, http://support.sas.com/events/sasglobalforum/2012/winners.html )
- Use of Cutoff and SAS Code Nodes in SAS® Enterprise Miner™ to Determine Appropriate Probability Cutoff Point for Decision making with Binary Target Models by Yogen Shah.
- Kass Adjustments in Decision Trees on Binary/Interval Target by Manoj Inmadi and Chakraborty, Goutam.
- 2nd place student team in the A2011 Data Mining Shootout: Satish Garla, Maheshwar Nareddy and Murali Pagolu
- 3rd place student team in the A2011 Data Mining Shootout: Michael Faron and Tony Ward
- Honorable mention student team in the A2011 Data Mining Shootout: Manoj Inmadi and Yogen Shah
- Winners of two of the top-5 student posters awarded at A2011 conference: Hari Harasudhan Duraidhayalu and Satish Garla
- Four student posters presented at the A2011 conference by: Hari Harasudhan Duraidhayalu, Satish Garla, Raja Kakarlpudi, Zubair Shaikh and Sumit Sukhwani.
- Winner of 3 student academic scholarships at the Western Users of SAS Software (WUSS) conference at San Francisco, 2011. The OSU data mining students selected for this award are: Satish Garla, Manoj Immadi, and Yogen Shah.
- OSU data mining students (Satish Garla and Zubair Shaik) presented two papers and a poster at WUSS 2011 Conference, San Francisco, 2011.
- OSU data mining student poster selected at JMP Discovery Summit 2011 at Denver, CO.
- Poster: Comparison of K-means, Normal Mixtures and Probabilistic-D Clustering for B2B Segmentation using Customers’ Perceptions by Satish Garla, Goutam Chakraborty and Gary Gaeth
- Winner of Walmart Analytics Expo 2011 student poster competition ““Application of Get Tweet Macro and Cluster Analysis to Analyze Sentiments expressed about Walmart and Sam’s Club in Tweets” by Satish Garla and Zubair Shaik
- Winner of two SAS Ambassador Awards (highest honor given by SAS to 10 students worldwide): Murali Pagolu and Satish Garla at SAS Global Forum 2011.
- Winner of one SAS Ambassador honorable mention (given to 10 students worldwide): Maheswhwar Nareddy at SAS Global Forum 2011.
- Winner of one conference scholarship award (given to 10 students worldwide): Dipanjan Dey at SAS Global Forum 2011.
- Five OSU students and alum presented papers on topics such as text mining, customer segmentation and predictive modeling at the SAS Global Forum 2011.
- Eliminating Response Style Segments in Survey Data via Double Standardization before Clustering by Murali Krishna Pagolu and Goutam Chakraborty
- %GetTweet: A New SAS® Macro to Fetch and Summarize Tweets by Satish Garla and Goutam Chakraborty
- Comparison of Probabilistic-D and k-Means Clustering in Segment Profiles for B2B Markets by Dipanjan Dey, Satish Garla, Goutam Chakraborty
- A SAS® Macro to Consolidate Data from Multiple Cards with Varying Time Validity but Belonging to a Single Account by Sohail Mohammad and Goutam Chakraborty
- Improving Customer Loyalty Program through Text Mining of Customer Comments by Maheshwar Nareddy and Goutam Chakraborty
- 1st place team in the M2010 Data Mining Shootout: Akkarapol Sa-ngasoonsong, Aisyah Larasati and Jongsawas Chongwatpol
- Honorable mention team in the M2010 Data Mining Shootout: Bashshar El-Ali, Asish Satpathy and Brenda Slagle.
- Honorable mention team in the M2010 Data Mining Shootout: Satish Garla, Maheshwar Nareddy and Murali Pagolu.
- Scholarship winners of two of the top-5 data mining poster presentations at M2010 conference: Maheshwar Nareddy and Murali Pagolu
- Scholarship winners at SAS Global Forum 2010: Maheshwar Nareddy, Murali Pagolu, Anu Penaganti and Promoda Srinivasamurthy
- 2nd place team in the M2009 Data Mining Shootout: Vineet Jain, Syed Nawaz and Liz Garmendia
- Honorable mention team in the M2009 Data Mining Shootout: Ridhima Nerlekar, Snigdha Potluri, Murali Bolloju, Chatchawal Ngamchitroongruang, Yumiao Sun and Guangyu Lan
- 2nd place team in the M2008 Data Mining Shootout: Samyog Bhattarai, Amjad Elsamen, Fengchun Tang, Xing Wan, Xuequn Wang, and Leila Zelnick
- 3rd place team in the M2008 Data Mining Shootout: Gary Hatfield, Miriam McGaugh, and Jason White
- 1st Place team in M2007 data mining shootout: Rohit Jaiswal, Vinay Amarnath Kanojia, Kunal C. Parekh, Ankit Saklecha.
- 2nd place team in M2007 data mining shootout: Pavankumar Abbaraju, Rahul Laxman Chavan, Hrishikesh Joshi, Parag Avinash Kode and Shruti Palasamudram Ramesh.
- 3rd place team in M2007 data mining shootout: Mohammed Dwikat, Mallikarjuna Chaitanya Jayanty, Priya Jhanji, Deivanavagam Kannabiran, Fery Suryadi.
