About

Apratim Ganguly is a Senior Data Scientist at Google, where he focuses on music discovery and consumption on YouTube. He is responsible for improving the user experience by analyzing and understanding how users interact with music on the platform. Apratim has a strong background in statistics, with over 8 years of relevant experience in the field. Prior to joining Google, Apratim worked as a Senior Statistician at Natera, where he developed algorithms for personalized cancer recurrence monitoring. He also developed metrics and methods for nucleic acid molecule identification using Molecular Index Tags. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Boston University, where he worked on estimating global network properties of real-world networks under different sampling strategies and dynamic multi-scale multivariate time series models. Apratim holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Davis, where he studied from 2009 to 2014. He also holds a Master's degree in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), where he studied from 2007 to 2009, and a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from ISI, where he studied from 2004 to 2007. Apratim has a diverse tech stack, including experience as a Data Scientist, Research Scientist, and tester. He is a highly analytical and detail-oriented individual, with a passion for using data to drive meaningful insights and improve user experiences.