Ashish Ranjan Jha received his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Roorkee (India), Masters degree in Computer Science from EPFL (Switzerland) and an MBA degree from Quantic School of Business (Washington). He has received distinction in all 3 of his degrees. He has worked for large technology companies like Oracle, Sony as well as the more recent tech unicorns such as Tractable and Revolut, mostly focussed around Artificial Intelligence. He currently works as Head of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at XYZ Reality, a construction tech startup bringing AR/VR and AI into the world of construction. Ashish has 10+ years of working experience and specialisation in the field of Machine Learning, and Python is his go-to tool. He has worked on a range of products and projects from developing an app that uses sensor data to predict the mode of transport, to detecting fraud in car damage insurance claims. Besides being an author, machine learning engineer, data scientist, he also blogs frequently on his personal blog site (DataShines) about the latest research and engineering topics around Machine Learning. In his free time, Ashish likes to contribute to open source projects around python / ML, answering issues on stackoverflow, and if time permits - taking on a full blown kaggle competition. He also has a non-technical side in his musician avatar, a food-lover and a runner-for-life.
