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Zubair Jalal

Certifications & Credentials

Employer-designed job simulations completed through Forage, alongside academic distinctions earned during the MSc.

Job Simulations

  • Data Science Job Simulation

    January 2026, Lloyds Banking Group (via Forage)

    Built a Random Forest churn model reaching ROC-AUC 0.82; preprocessed data in pandas to handle missing values, encode categoricals and scale features; tuned hyperparameters with GridSearchCV and ran feature-importance analysis to derive retention insights.

  • Financial Data Analyst & AI Strategy Simulation

    January 2026, TATA (via Forage)

    Ran exploratory data analysis using GenAI tools to assess data quality and risk indicators; proposed a predictive framework for customer delinquency risk; designed an agentic-AI collections strategy incorporating ethical-AI principles and regulatory compliance.

  • Finance Job Simulation

    January 2026, Citi (via Forage)

    Reviewed minimum capital-adequacy ratios and calculated risk-weighted asset values using Federal Reserve Board methodology; analysed the potential impact of Omicron on 2022 credit-card sales; summarised KPI movements in an executive briefing for the Country Treasurer team and CFO.

Awards & Recognition

  • Ranked #1 of cohort, Excel for Data Science

    February 2026, University of Leicester

    1st position (highest marks) out of 75 students in MA7444 Excel for Data Science.

  • Ranked #3 of cohort, Statistics for Data Science

    February 2026, University of Leicester

    Distinction, ranked #3 out of 260 students in MA7023 Statistics for Data Science.

  • Botswana Top Achiever Scholarship

    2025, Government of Botswana

    Full government scholarship awarded to the nation's highest-performing students.