Avishek Nag

Avishek has a Master’s in Data Analytics & Machine Learning from Birla Institute Of Technology (Pilani, India) and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. He has work experience in different renowned companies like VMware, Cognizant, Cisco, Mobile Iron, etc. He started his career as a software engineer and later moved to the Machine Learning/Data Science. He has been an analytics practitioner for several years now, specializing in statistical methods, machine learning and natural language processing. He has experience in designing end to end Machine Learning systems, driving Data Science/ML initiatives starting from inception to production in multiple organizations.

His book "Pragmatic Machine Learning with Python" is recommended by ACM education for their members. He also acts as a key contributor for several online publications like Towards AI, Towards Data Science etc. which are focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. His blogs can be found at https://medium.com/@avisheknag17.

He is passionate about authoring books & doing research in several areas of applied Math/Stat/Probability/Computational Science. His interest areas are Mathematical optimization, Survival Analysis, Computational Finance, Computational Geology, Chaotic Dynamical System etc.