Gaurav is seasoned data science and AI leader with over a decade-plus of experience in generating repeatable value through data and AI. He serves as a lead for the creation of new AI Products for Rakuten across various data modalities and domains such as eCommerce, Fintech and Mobile. Prior to Rakuten Gaurav was heading data science and Datalab for a global information services company - Experian for APAC region, responsible for building and launching various data products in retail finance across credit risk, fraud detection using state of the art machine learning paradigms. In his previous roles, he has been the brain behind recommendation and search engines for high traffic websites in India and had been a data scientist consultant for more than half a decade for various clients spanning US, UK, India and other countries. He did his graduation and post-graduation in Mathematics and computing from IIT Delhi, majoring in machine learning in the finance domain.