Dipanjan (DJ) Sarkar is a Senior Data Scientist at Applied Materials, leading several advanced analytics efforts around computer vision, natural language processing and deep learning. He is also a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning. He has consulted and worked with several startups as well as Fortune 500 companies like Intel and Open Source organizations like Red Hat. He primarily works on leveraging data science, machine learning and deep learning to build large- scale intelligent systems. He holds a master of technology degree with specializations in Data Science and Software Engineering. He is also an avid supporter of self-learning and massive open online courses.

Dipanjan has been an analytics practitioner for several years now, specializing in machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision and deep learning. Having a passion for data science and education, he also acts as an AI Advision and Mentor at various organizations like Springboard, where he helps people build their skills on areas like Data Science and Machine Learning. He also acts as a key contributor and Editor for Towards Data Science, a leading online journal focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Dipanjan is also a published author, having authored several books on R, Python, Machine Learning, Social Media Analytics, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning.

In his spare time he loves reading, gaming, watching popular sitcoms and football and writing interesting articles on https://medium.com/@dipanzan.sarkar and https://www.linkedin.com/in/dipanzan. He is also a strong supporter of open-source and publishes his code and analyses from his books and articles on GitHub at https://github.com/dipanjanS.