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Aishwarya is currently working as a Data Scientist at Analytics Vidhya. She is a machine learning expert with a specialization in image processing.

She is one of the primary content curators and an instructor for Analytics Vidhya’s most popular course – Applied Machine Learning. She is also an avid reader and blogger who loves exploring the endless world of data science and artificial intelligence. She has written over 70 articles in recent years on various machine learning and deep learning topics and applications.

Pulkit is a Data Scientist at Analytics Vidhya. His research area lies in the field of Computer Vision and Deep Learning. He has been working on various projects related to images and videos for the past few years.

He is comfortable with Python, Keras, PyTorch and has done multiple projects using these frameworks and tools. Some of his key projects include Crowd Counting, Estimating the Screen Time in videos, Object Detection, and Image Segmentation.

He is one of the primary content curators for Analytics Vidhya’s courses, such as the Computer Vision using Deep Learning course and the Applied Machine Learning course. He is also an avid blogger and has written multiple detailed and in-depth guides on various computer vision topics and applications, ranging from Image Classification to Object Detection and Image Segmentation.

Rajesh K Jeyapaul is a Senior AI Architect at IBM Digital Labs, India. He leads the Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution enablement for clients who enter the Digital Journey.

In his 25 years of technology journey, he has led multiple transformational projects on various technology stacks. He has co-authored 8 books. He also has 6 patents to his credit.

He started his career with the Indian Defense Research organization as a Research Fellow.

Apurva works as a freelancer building computer vision systems that interact with users. In his previous roles (as ML lead at HealthifyMe and BloomReach), he built a food recognition system for global foods, semantic search algorithms for e-commerce companies, and smart captchas for payment websites. He also co-founded a startup that built eye gaze recognition systems allowing computer control without peripherals.

Durga, Gadiraju is Director and Founder of ITVersity, Inc. He is specialized in Training, Consulting and Engineering Services in the areas of Cloud and Big Data. He has 15+ years of enterprise experience in the areas of building Highly Scalable and Mission Critical Data-driven applications using technologies like Oracle, Goldengate, Informatica, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Databricks, AWS EMR, etc.

As part of Full Stack Data Engineering, he can take care of the following:

• Building Data Lake either on-prem or cloud and get data from different sources.
• Design Data Marts based on the reporting and visualization requirements.
• Process Data in real-time or batch using relevant tech stack.
• Build Full-Stack Web or Mobile applications to provide reports as per requirements.
• Mobile and IoT analytics

Akash Tandon is a 2016 graduate from NIT Surat and is currently working as a Senior Data Engineer with Atlan, a data democratization firm, in New Delhi. Atlan had been selected as a technology pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2018. Previously, he was at Socialcops, a data intelligence firm involved in the execution of large-scale projects with partners ranging from national governments to the UN.

Akash is part of the team building a product to ease data governance and operations. His current work is focused on operationalization of data science workflows and application of graph technology for data discovery. He is passionate about the democratization of data and AI/ML, and a strong believer of open source software and communities.