Ankit Jain

Ankit currently works as a Senior Research Scientist at Uber AI Labs, the machine learning research arm of Uber. His work primarily involves the application of Deep Learning methods to a variety of Uber’s problems ranging from forecasting, food delivery to self driving cars. Previously, he has worked in variety of data science roles at Bank of America, Facebook and other startups.

Additionally, he has been a featured speaker in many of the top AI conferences and universities across US including UC Berkeley, OReilly AI conference etc. He completed his MS from UC Berkeley and BS from IIT Bombay (India).

Fun Fact: In his previous life, he used to work on Oil Rigs in drilling operations in middle of oceans before starting in AI/ML.