Hareesh Bahuleyan

Welcome! 👋

The Present.

I currently work as an Applied Scientist at Zalando SE in Berlin. My job entails solving interesting challenges in the e-commerce space, specifically related to Fashion Artificial Intelligence. This short interview will give you a glimpse of my journey at Zalando so far. 🎙

The Past.

Before moving to Germany🇩🇪, I spent 2 years as a Machine Learning Researcher at the Montreal Lab of Borealis AI, the R&D arm of the Royal Bank of Canada. In 2018, I completed my graduate studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada🇨🇦, where the focus of my masters research thesis was on the applications of deep learning to natural language processing (NLP) and text generation with neural variational models. Here is a link to my Google Scholar profile 🎓.

I am an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)🇮🇳, having graduated in 2015 with a dual degree in Transportation Engineering. For my thesis at IITM, I explored the applications of machine learning on traffic data and travel time prediction. 🚖

My Interests.

While I am open to exploring different avenues in ML, my broad interests are in the areas of deep learning, natural language processing and transformer-based architectures🔬. On the engineering side, I am keen on building my knowledge around deployment, productionization and scaling of ML systems for real-world scenarios. ⚙️

I love travelling and have been to 17 countries so far✈️. I enjoy hiking and my other hobbies include trying out new recipes 🌮 and listenting to podcasts 🎧 (which can also be done simultaneously while cooking 😉).