Ranga Raghunathan

About Ranga Raghunathan

With over 8 years of experience in data science and machine learning, I lead a team of data scientists and analysts at Grainger, a leading industrial supply company. Our mission is to deliver innovative and impactful machine learning and analytical solutions for e-commerce, merchandizing, and marketing, with a primary focus on natural language processing, text mining, language models, real time ML micro-services and APIs.As the Director of Applied Machine Learning, I oversee the end-to-end development and deployment of machine learning systems that enhance product relevancy, search and retrieval, recommendation, and personalization for Grainger\'s online platform. I also collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and partners to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for ML and data initiatives that drive business value and customer satisfaction. Some of the recent projects that I led or contributed to include a conversational AI assistant, a semantic search engine, a dynamic pricing model, and a content-based recommendation system.

Experience

1. Director, Applied Machine Learning

   Grainger

   Mar 2023 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

Education

• University of Colorado Boulder

  Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Skills

• Python
• Unix
• C++
• Predictive Modeling
• Programming
• Optimization
• Hadoop
• Pl/Sql
• R
• Microservices
• Solr
• Sql
• Data Analysis
• Machine Learning
• Data Mining
• Simulations
• Deep Learning
• Docker
• Algorithms