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Karan Homayounfar
Data Scientist & Developer · MSc Data Science
Builds data pipelines and web products that run in production. First-class BSc graduate, enterprise scholarship holder, freelance developer with live client work.
Education
MSc Data Science, University of the West of England, Bristol
Jan 2026 – Jan 2027
Sem 1: Data Management Fundamentals 84 (Distinction) · Statistical Inference 70 (Distinction) · Dissertation: GB Balancing Mechanism Cost Forecasting
  • Student Representative, MSc Data Science cohort (~50 students) — Student Rep Gold Award 2026
  • UWE Enterprise Scholarship (£1,000) — local model phone reception system for SMEs, pilot deployment
  • Member, UWE Student Society for Data and Computing · Bristol Data Week, University of Bristol 2026
BSc Computer Engineering 1st in graduating class GPA 18.87 / 20
2020 – 2024
Projects & Work
Reception System — Local Model Phone Handler In progress
2026 – Present
FastAPI + Faster Whisper STT + local LLM (LLaMA/Phi-3) + Google Calendar API. Autonomous phone reception for SMEs. UWE Enterprise Scholarship. Pilot deployment underway.
Dissertation: GB Balancing Mechanism Cost Forecasting In progress
2026 – 2027
Early warning system for GB electricity price spikes. Elexon BMRS half-hourly data. XGBoost, LightGBM, SHAP explainability. Novel early warning horizon metric.
Reads engineering quote emails, extracts structured data, drafts replies. Ollama local models + OpenAI GPT. 96% field accuracy.
End-to-end BI pipeline. ETL with Python and Pandas, MySQL storage, Matplotlib dashboards.
Bristol Air Quality — Relational and Document DB Analysis
2026
Dual-paradigm analysis. MySQL with PHPMyAdmin/Workbench, MongoDB aggregation pipelines. MSc Distinction (84).
Client site. Cloudflare Pages, GA4, GTM, Clarity, Web3Forms, before/after sliders, dark mode. Live and receiving patient enquiries.
Skills
Languages
Python, R, SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS
Data & ML
Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Faster Whisper, R (tidyverse, ggplot2), time-series forecasting
Databases
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Deploy & Infra
Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Actions, FastAPI, Streamlit, Docker, GA4, GTM, Clarity
Developing
XGBoost · LightGBM · SHAP · C++ · C# · n8n · Power BI
Achievements & Activities
1st in BSc graduating class, GPA 18.87/20
UWE Enterprise Scholarship holder
MSc Student Rep Gold Award 2026
Bristol Data Week, University of Bristol 2026
UWE Hackathon 2025 & 2026
Freelance web developer, live client sites