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Harshit Kothari

Harshit Kothari

Undergraduate student at IIT Delhi

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Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Joined July 2026
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Active student leader at IIT Delhi with multiple event and council roles — Harshit holds several concurrent student positions (Design Executive at the Student Affairs Council; events roles at Rendezvous, eDC, and International Programs) indicating strong involvement in campus event planning and student governance. datanyze+1
Residential community participation — listed as a maintenance committee member of Karakoram Hostel, showing engagement with hostel-level student administration and residential welfare. lifeatuni
Early-career finance and research experience — worked as an Equity Research Analyst at Tradeswift Group (2025–2026) and is a co-author of a 2026 SSRN paper on financial NLP, demonstrating interest and activity at the intersection of finance and machine learning. ssrn
Education rooted in Jaipur and IIT Delhi — schooling at Seedling Schools Jaipur (2009–2022) followed by undergraduate studies (BTech) at IIT Delhi beginning 2024, reflecting a transition from Jaipur to Delhi for higher education. lifeatuni

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Contextual Mismatch in Financial NLP: Social Sentiment vs. Institutional News in Indian Equities

June 1, 2026

A study comparing the predictive utility of retail social media sentiment versus institutional financial news for short-term equity movements in Indian IT stocks; proposes an event-driven NLP framework and benchmarks sentiment extraction methods (VADER vs. FinBERT) with classifiers including Logistic Regression and Random Forest.

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