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
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.
2022 - Present
2017 - 2022
2015 - 2017
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.
Papers
Delivery Hero Recommendation Dataset: A Novel Dataset for Benchmarking Recommendation Algorithms
ACM Recsys 2023
Published Version
Easter2.0: Improving Convolutional Models for Handwritten Text Recognition
EASTER: Simplifying Text Recognition using only 1D Convolutions
CAIAC 2021
Preprint Paper
Published Version
A Simple and Interpretable Predictive Model for Healthcare
CAIAC 2021
Preprint Paper
Published Version
An Interpretable Deep Learning System for Automatically Scoring Request for Proposals
IEEE SSCI 2021
Preprint Paper
Published Version
Exclusion and Inclusion--A model agnostic approach to feature importance in DNNs
IEEE ICTAI 2021
Preprint Paper
Published Version
Real Time Failure Prediction of Load Balancers and Firewalls
IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) 2016
Published Version
Books
Books Reviewed
Patents
Cybersecurity for sensitive-information utterances in interactive voice sessions
US11854553B2
Granted
Machine learning techniques for natural language processing using predictive entity scoring
US11853700B1
Granted
Dynamic triggering of augmented reality assistance mode functionalities
US11663790B2
Granted
Weighted adaptive filtering based loss function to predict the first occurrence of multiple events in a single shot
US11741381B2
Granted
Sentiment progression analysis
US11256874B2
Granted
Cybersecurity for sensitive-information utterances in interactive voice sessions using risk profiles
US20220199073A1
Pending
Routing of sensitive-information utterances through secure channels in interactive voice sessions
US20230269291A1
Pending
Systems and methods for awakening a user based on sleep cycle
US20230059947A1
Pending
Reinforcement learning machine learning models for intervention recommendation
US20230252338A1
Pending
Predictive document conversion
US20210326631A1
Pending
Predictive data analysis operations using a hierarchical intervention recommendation machine learning framework
US20230325690A1
Pending
Talks
Articles
- Efficient Object Detection with SSD and YoLO Models — A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide (Part 3)
- Towards DataScience: Exploring Object Detection with R-CNN Models — A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide (Part 2)
- Towards DataScience: Object Detection Basics — A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide (Part 1)
- Towards DataScience: Supercharge Training of your Deep Learning Models
- PyDev of the Week
- Towards DataScience: Supercharge Image Classification with Transfer Learning
- Towards DataScience: Supercharge your Image Search with Transfer Learning
- Towards DataScience: LSTMs for Music Generation
- CourseBricks: Introduction to Natural Language Processing
- Interview with Raghav Bali, Senior Data Scientist, United Health Group
- Top 25 Python Libraries for Machine Learning
- How to Become a Data Scientist
- Perceptron : Where It All Started