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News

  • [2023] Generative AI with Python & Tensorflow2 listed as a Must Read book by AIM
  • [2023] Lightening Interview with Sheamus McGovern
  • [2021] Interviewed/Featured on Mike Dris Collis’ Blog Mouse Vs Python
  • [2021] Runner’s Up, Global Data Science Hackathon, Optum
  • [2021] Awarded Honory title of Senior Inventor for several contributions to patent program in 2020, Optum
  • [2021] Innovation Award Winner for Q1 2021, Optum
  • [2020] Runner’s Up, Global Data Science Hackathon, Optum
  • [2020] Award for Exemplary Leadership, Optum
  • [2018] Runner’s Up, Global Data Science Hackathon, Optum
  • [2017] Best Paper Presentation Award at ITTLC, Intel
  • [2014] Awarded Gold Medal (Late Sri N Rama Rao Medal- Student of the Year), IIIT-B
  • [2013-14] Google Student Ambassador
  • [2013] Dean’s Merit List, 3rd Semester, IIIT-B
  • [2013] Dean’s Merit List, 2nd Semester, IIIT-B
  • [2012] Dean’s Merit List, 1st Semester, IIIT-B

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Bio

Raghav Bali is a Data Scientist at Delivery Hero, one the world’s leading food delivery service based out of Berlin, Germany. With over a decade’s experience, his work involves research & development of enterprise level solutions based on Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing for real world use-cases. Raghav has published multiple peer-reviewed papers, has authored over 7 books and is a co-inventor of multiple patents in the areas of machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing. In his previous role at Intel, he was involved in enabling proactive data driven IT initiatives using Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning and traditional statistical methods. He has also worked in finance domain with American Express, solving digital engagement and customer retention use cases.

Delivery Hero
2022 - Present
Optum
2017 - 2022
Intel
2015 - 2017
American Express
2014 - 2015

During Masters, I’ve taken up exciting and challenging courses related to Machine Learning, Software Architecture, Advanced Algorithms and Operating systems. I also worked on a number of large scale projects such as Language Recognizer for Indian Languages , Hierarchical Document Clustering System, Bitcoin Payments based Cloud Provisioning Platform and so on.

On the side, I am a technology enthusiast who loves reading and playing around with new gadgets and technologies. I am a shutterbug who likes capturing moments, checkout my instagram and vsco.

Occassional Blog Posts


Papers

Delivery Hero Recommendation Dataset: A Novel Dataset for Benchmarking Recommendation Algorithms

ACM Recsys 2023
Yernat Assylbekov, Raghav Bali, Luke Bovard and Christian Klaue.
Published Version


Easter2.0: Improving Convolutional Models for Handwritten Text Recognition

Kartik Chaudhary and Raghav Bali
Preprint Paper


EASTER: Simplifying Text Recognition using only 1D Convolutions

CAIAC 2021
Kartik Chaudhary and Raghav Bali
Preprint Paper Published Version


A Simple and Interpretable Predictive Model for Healthcare

CAIAC 2021
Subhadip Maji, Raghav Bali, Sree Harsha Ankem and Kishore V Ayyadevara
Preprint Paper Published Version


An Interpretable Deep Learning System for Automatically Scoring Request for Proposals

IEEE SSCI 2021
Subhadip Maji, Anudeeo S Appe, Raghav Bali, Veera R Chikka, Arijit G Chowdhury, Vamsi M Bhandaru
Preprint Paper Published Version


Exclusion and Inclusion--A model agnostic approach to feature importance in DNNs

IEEE ICTAI 2021
Subhadip Maji, Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury, Raghav Bali, Vamsi M Bhandaru
Preprint Paper Published Version


Real Time Failure Prediction of Load Balancers and Firewalls

Tamoghna Ghosh, Dipanjan Sarkar, Tushar Sharma, Ashok Desai, Raghav Bali
IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) 2016
Published Version


Books

Books Reviewed


Patents

Cybersecurity for sensitive-information utterances in interactive voice sessions

US11854553B2
Devikiran Ramadas;Gregory J Boss;Ninad Sathaye;Raghav Bali;Nitin Dwivedi
Granted


Machine learning techniques for natural language processing using predictive entity scoring

US11853700B1
Nathan H. Funk;Eric D. Tryon;Amy L. Jensen;Sudheer Ponnala;M. P. S. Jagannadha Rao;Raghav Bali;Veera Raghavendra Chikka;Subhadip Maji;Anudeep Srivatsav Appe
Granted


Dynamic triggering of augmented reality assistance mode functionalities

US11663790B2
Kartik Chaudhary;Sudeep Choudhary;Raghav Bali;Anurag Das;Subhadip Maji
Granted


Weighted adaptive filtering based loss function to predict the first occurrence of multiple events in a single shot

US11741381B2
V Kishore Ayyadevara;Sree Harsha Ankem;Raghav Bali;Rohan Khilnani;Vineet Shukla;Saikumar Chintareddy;Ranraj Rana Singh
Granted


Sentiment progression analysis

US11256874B2
Ninad D. Sathaye;Raghav Bali;Piyush Gupta;Krishnamohan Nandiraju
Granted


Cybersecurity for sensitive-information utterances in interactive voice sessions using risk profiles

US20220199073A1
Devikiran Ramadas;Gregory J Boss;Ninad Sathaye;Raghav Bali;Nitin Dwivedi
Pending


Routing of sensitive-information utterances through secure channels in interactive voice sessions

US20230269291A1
Devikiran Ramadas;Ninad D. Sathaye;Gregory J. Boss;Raghav Bali
Pending


Systems and methods for awakening a user based on sleep cycle

US20230059947A1
Raghav Bali;Ninad D. Sathaye;Swapna Sourav Rout
Pending


Reinforcement learning machine learning models for intervention recommendation

US20230252338A1
V. Kishore Ayyadevara;Rohan Khilnani;Swaroop S. Shekar;Raghav Bali;Joseph C. Cremaldi;Fritz T. Wilhelm;Vinod Burugupalli
Pending


Predictive document conversion

US20210326631A1
Kartik Chaudhary;Raghav Bali;V Kishore Ayyadevara;Yerraguntla Yeshwanth Reddy
Pending


Predictive data analysis operations using a hierarchical intervention recommendation machine learning framework

US20230325690A1
Ninad D. Sathaye;Manoj Kapoor;Gregory J. Boss;Raghav Bali
Pending


Talks


Articles