Dr. Avishek Pal, PhD, is a software engineer, data scientist, author, and an avid Kaggler living in Hyderabad, India. He achieved his Bachelor of Technology degree in industrial engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and earned his doctorate in 2015 from University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom. He started his career as a software engineer at IBM India developing middleware solutions for telecom clients. This was followed by stints at a start-up product development company followed by Ericsson, the global telecom giant. After doctoral studies, Avishek started his career in India as a lead machine learning engineer for a leading US-based investment company. He is currently working at Microsoft as a senior data scientist. Avishek has published several research papers in reputed international conferences and journals.