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Ajay Arunachalam

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Line Manager & Senior Data Scientist at Cambridge University Press & Assessment
📍 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Ajay is a Line Manager and Senior Data Scientist at Cambridge University Press & Assessment with 9 years of experience delivering analytics and AI solutions. Holding a Ph. D. in Computer Science and multiple certifications including AWS Machine Learning and Certified ScrumMaster, he has worked across the telecom, healthcare, retail, and food sectors.

He is passionate about democratizing AI and building explainable models to solve complex real-world problems. This is demonstrated through his creation of several open-source Python and R packages for the data science community. He is a strong believer in continuous, passionate learning as a never-ending journey.

During his research in Sweden, he worked on a project using robots to cultivate basil, analyzing how mechanical stress could maximize taste and health.

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Current Role
Line Manager & Senior Data Scientist
Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Explainable AI
Believes addressing opacity in AI systems is critical and strives to build explainable models that learn good representations from complex data.
AI in Food Tech
Co-authored research on using robotic platforms to induce mechanical stress in basil plants to study its effect on their morphology, metabolism, and sensory evaluation.
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Career

Work history

7-2022
Line Manager & Senior Data Scientist
Cambridge University Press & Assessment
1-2019 - 2-2022
Senior Data Scientist & Researcher (Artificial Intelligence)
Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Orebro, Sweden
1-2017 - 10-2018
Data Scientist - Machine Learning & Big Data Analytics
True Corporation
3-2012 - 7-2013
Project Engineer II
CDAC
In the press

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Ajay Arunachalam – Cambridge Assessment Research Team. Featured in Cambridge Assessment (Cambridge University Press & Assessment)
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Education
B.E.
Savitribai Phule Pune University
M.E
Anna University Chennai
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