Ankit Jain was named in the 40 Under 40 Data Scientists 2022 list by Analytics India Magazine . He has also co-authored a bestseller book , Tensorflow Machine Learning Projects .
“ I think the biggest step change in humanity has always come through some technological transformation and that is what drives me to succeed in this field ”
to our daily lives . Without technology , we wouldn ’ t have been able to connect with people virtually , which would have been a lot harder for people to navigate . So , in that sense , I believe technology is the biggest driver of human evolution and I love being part of that .
Q . Talk me through your work with Uber AI – how did it transform the company ’ s operations , and what role did you play in the implementation of AI technology ?
» I joined when Uber just started its AI team . The company was betting heavily on AI to transform its business , like so many others . Uber was in a great position because it has lots of data to work with . Here , I built two solutions utilising AI that were successfully deployed in the company .
One was for Uber Eats – the dish recommendation systems that you see on the app . I led this project , and we developed an algorithm to create this recommendation service
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