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Name : Dr. Moonis Shakeel
Qualifications : Ph.D. (Economics) Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, MA (Economics), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, B.A. Hons (Economics), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Work Experience : More than 12 years
Research Interests : Conducting empirical financial markets research, especially market microstructure.
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Dr. Moonis Shakeel has about 12 years of experience both in Corporate and in Academics. He has worked in reputed organizations such as CMIE and Evalueserve in the area of Economics and Quantitative Investment Research, respectively. He also worked with various ministries and government bodies such as Planning Commission and Ministry of IT. He has a Masters and Ph.D in Economics. His domain expertise is in Econometric/ Time Series Analysis, Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Flume, R, SPSS, EVIEWS, IPython, Rattle, Microstrategy. He is currently employed as an Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) at Jaypee Business School, JIIT University, Noida/NCR, India. He is also taking care of the Ph.D. programme of the School as a Ph.D. Programme Director. He teaches subjects in the area of Business Analytics/Economics/Finance. Emerging from the need to analyze and utilize enormous amounts of data more effectively, companies are turning to data scientists to unlock the power of ”big data”. Successful data scientists must possess a broad-based understanding of business and data analytics capabilities and a working knowledge of related IT applications. Keeping this in view, Professor Moonis has introduced four courses in this area, namely- Data Science for Business, Data Management, Visualization and Analysis using Excel/R, Applied Business intelligence (using Microstrategy 9) and Business Forecasting and Predictive Techniques (using R).
KEY SKILLS
Statistical Skills: Thorough knowledge of various statistical techniques and their applicability in real world. Bigdata Analytics, Data Mining, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Predictive Modeling, Econometric/ Time Series Analysis, Decision Trees, Survival Analysis, Conjoint Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Machine learning, Cluster Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Logistic Regression, Artificial Neural Networks, Generalized Linear Models, Social Media (Twitter) Analysis, Attribution modeling etc
Technical Skills: Profound experience in the usage of relevant statistical softwares for advance analysis
- Hadoop/Mapreduce, Hive, Pig, Flume, Sqoop, Hortonworks Sandbox, Spark
- R, SAS, Rattle, lattice, ggplot2, Eviews, SPSS, Stata, Python, pandas
- Microstrategy 9, Tableau, MySql, Microsoft Excel, Word, PPT
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Ph.D. (Economics) 2005 - 2009
Major: Economics
Status: Awarded
Thesis Title: Relationship between Futures prices and Spot prices of Stock Indices at NSE
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
M.A. (Economics) (1st Division) 2002 - 2004
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
B.A. (Honors)(Economics) (1st Division) 1999 - 2002
CERTIFICATIONS
- Developing Data Products, Johns Hopkins University, Coursera 2015
- Bigdata Analytics and Hadoop 2014
- Financial Modelling using Excel and VBA, 2012.
- Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics, University of Washington, Prof. Eric Zivot, 2013.
- Certified Stock Market Technical Analyst from BLB Institute of Financial Markets, 2007.
RESEARCH
My research interests are in the area of big data analytics, text analytics and sentiment analysis. 2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009
PhD Guidance
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S. No.
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Student Details |
Topic |
Status |
1 |
Anand Kumar Rai (07409055) |
A Comparative Analysis of the Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions of India and Bangladesh |
Completed (2012) |
2 |
Shivani Chaudry (11409521) |
Behavior, Perception & Performance of Investment Professionals in Mutual Fund Industry |
Completed (2015) |
3 |
Shashank Mehra (11409520) |
Consumer’s Store Choice Criteria In Organised And Unorganised Grocery Stores-A Study At Ncr-Region. |
Submitted (2015) |
4 |
Bhavana Srivastava (12409509) |
Empirical Essays on Futures Market Microstructure
|
Ongoing |
5 |
Anshu Banwari (12409701) |
Communication and Negotiation Styles: An Empirical Analysis |
Ongoing |
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Business Analytics Courses Taught:
- Fundamentals of Business Analytics
- Business Forecasting and Predictive Techniques R
- Data Management, Visualization and Analysis using Excel/R
- Econometrics using Excel/R
- Applied Business Intelligence using Tableau
Papers Taught to MBA and PhD students:
- Business Research Methods using SPSS
- Business Statistics using Excel
- Multivariate Data Analysis Techniques using SPSS/R
- Quantitative Techniques and Software Applications using R
- Financial Econometrics
- Quantitative Financial Economics
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Behavioral Finance
Academic Responsibilities
- Programme Director – PhD Programme, Course Development etc.
- Prof. Incharge – Centre for Social Media Analytics
FDPs/MDPs Conducted
- R for Business Analytics at AIMA
- R for Business Analytics at Jaipuria
- Data Analytics and Research Methodology at ABES
- Business Research and Analytics at Jaypee Business School
- FDP on, “Research Methodology using SPSS for Management Research.”
- FDP on, “Research Methodology and Application of Contemporary Statistical Techniques for Management Research.”
- MDP for ICICI Bank Executives on Economics and Econometrics.
CORPORATE EXPERIENCE
Worked with the Government of India (GOI) Ministries such as the Planning Commission and Ministry of Information Technology (Economic Policy and Planning Division) and also other related agencies and associations as Research and Information Officer. At these government organizations, the work involved:
- Analyzing data released by various government agencies and authentic private bodies.
- Tracking leading macroeconomic indicators and interpret the same to forecast the likely direction and performance of the Indian economy using high-end regression analysis in R.
- Tracking the IT/ITeS sector in India
- Prepared proprietary industry/economic reports for Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)
Worked as part of the Quantitative Investment Research team at Evalueserve (for a leading German investment bank). Highlights of the work involved:
- Preparing daily market report covering various sectors, economic news, days biggest gainers and losers for various major world indices. The daily report is prepared for a leading Investment Bank based in UK.
- Conducting advance econometric analysis including forecasting using Arima/Garch model in R.
- Done a project on predicting the direction and magnitude of commodity prices based on raw material costs.
- Analyze the relation between VIX (Volatility Index) and Returns using time series in R.
- Analysis of Analyst Recommendations
AWARDS AND ACHIEVMENTS
- Batch Topper in B.A. Honors (Economics) in the Class of 2004
- Awarded 3 successive merit scholarships at college level
- Awarded certificate for Recognition in Team Work
e-LEARNING RESOURCES
Link - https://rpubs.com/mooni-shakeel