About

Bala Suraj P is a Research Engineer in Data and Decision Sciences at TCS with over three years of experience in academic and corporate research environments. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Tirupati. Bala is skilled in using data science, machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning to solve business problems and build data-driven applications. At TCS, Bala designed an autonomous broker for the Power Trading Agent Competition, which serves as a liaison between power producers and retail consumers. He built a robust winning broker system that achieved an 87% marginal cash profit over the runner-up broker in the 2021 competition. Bala also developed sequential decision-making and control optimization strategies for wholesale and retail markets, respectively. Additionally, he experimented with portfolio optimization in financial markets by designing a virtual trading market simulator based on NASDAQ stocks and developing reinforcement learning-based trading agents with 12% and 60% mean capital profit on quarterly and yearly windows. Prior to his current role, Bala worked as a Summer Intern at TCS, where he developed a speech assessment platform to assess a person's soft skills through speech signal analysis. He also studied language models for human resource queries to decode phonemes and predict word sequence. Bala's tech stack includes research scientist, reinforcement learning, language models, deep learning, software engineer, ML, data scientist, backend, computer vision, Java, Keras, normalization, Python, NLP, Scikit, Pandas, MySQL, microservices, and Pytorch. Bala is a motivated and skilled professional with almost four years of relevant experience. His expertise in data-driven applications and machine learning techniques makes him a valuable asset to any team.