About

Tushar Agarwal is an experienced Data Scientist with a passion for big data and the challenges it poses. He currently works as a Sr. Data Scientist at Zomato, where he applies his expertise in data science to solve complex problems. Tushar holds a B.E (Hons.) in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. With 4.87 years of relevant experience, Tushar has a demonstrated history of working in the advertisement technology domain. He has worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Zeotap, where he built a pipeline for the classification of various e-commerce products into various categories. He learned various stages in the lifecycle of a data science project, starting from building a distributed crawler service to gathering data using Apache Nutch, parsing the data using open source library Scrapy, cleaning the data using various NLP techniques, finding similarity between various titles and descriptions using deep-learning libraries like GloVe and word2vec, and finally classifying and tagging the products using meta information and text classification techniques. The final product could look at the person's URL (ecommerce) and tag his interest into various categories. Tushar's tech stack includes Data Scientist, Research Scientist, NLP, Scikit, Big Data, ML, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Word2Vec, AWS, Text Classification, Recommendation system, Spark, and Python. He has a strong academic background and has completed his education from reputed institutions such as Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and St. Peter's College, Agra. Overall, Tushar is a highly skilled Data Scientist with a passion for solving complex problems. He is a valuable asset to any team and is always willing to go the extra mile to ensure success.