About

Anand Ramanathan is a highly experienced Principal Machine Learning Scientist at Ripcord with over 21 years of relevant experience. He has a strong background in Conversational AI and has previously worked on a variety of product, software, AI, and ML projects. Anand's current role at Ripcord involves leading machine learning initiatives and developing innovative solutions for the company's clients. Prior to joining Ripcord, he worked as an AI Engineer, where he conducted feasibility analysis to determine treatment protocols based on multimodal patient data. He also defined data collection and labeling requirements, identified candidate models, and evaluated them once enough data was collected. Anand is also the Founder and AI Engineer of mlai llc, where he conceived, built, and launched Ganglion, a news curation experience. Ganglion is a news web app that empowers users to control their own news consumption preferences. It uses several ML models, including NLP, sentiment analysis, objectivity analysis, named entity recognition, and a custom model for clickbait analysis. The models are updated automatically every night, and some of the technologies used include Python, NLTK, Spacy, gensim, textblob, Heroku, Amazon AWS S3, Flask, REST, React, reactstrap, Bootstrap, JavaScript, JSX, and feedparser. Anand holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Engineering from IIT. He has a strong tech stack that includes ML, Research Scientist, AI, Data Scientist, AWS, sentiment analysis, NLP, Python, JavaScript, Flask, and web development. Anand is a highly motivated and results-driven individual who is passionate about developing innovative solutions that solve complex problems. He is an excellent communicator and collaborator who is always looking for ways to improve processes and deliverables.