Alok Ranjan

Alok is the Data Science leader for CMG group of Big Four. He serves as the Editorial Review Board member and is the Data Science Advisor for IISER, Mohali. Alok brings more than 18 years’ experience in data science and AI. His areas of expertise include Advanced Machine Learning, NLP and Deep Learning. He is passionate about open source and building, training, and mentoring data science/AI teams. In his current role, Alok has been instrumental in conceptualizing and building open source AI products to glean insights. Prior to this, he helped set up the India Knowledge Center of a data science consulting firm and was a co-founder and Chief Data Scientist of BizAlgo Systems, a data science startup. Before that, he established the consulting division of Institute of Public Enterprise as a professor of data science and authored a book, many book chapters and research papers. He is an MBA from IIFM, pass out from inaugural batch of Executive Program in Business Analytics from IIM Kolkata and has abandoned PhD twice. He devotes his free time to long distance running, reading, researching and bringing awareness about data science & AI.