Ravali Bandikatla
About Ravali Bandikatla
Ravali Bandikatla is a Data Scientist at Grip with a background in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and software engineering.
Professional Experience
Ravali Bandikatla currently works as a Data Scientist at Grip, starting her role in 2022. Prior to this, she worked as a Data Scientist at Legato Health Technologies in Hyderabad, Telangana, India from 2021 to 2022. From 2020 to 2021, she served as a Data Scientist at Evoke Technologies in Hyderabad. Before transitioning into data science, she spent two years as a Software Engineer at Accenture in Hyderabad from 2017 to 2019.
Educational Background
Ravali Bandikatla pursued her Master's degree at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, focusing on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, from 2019 to 2021. She earned her Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree from Osmania University, where she studied from 2013 to 2017.
Expertise and Technical Skills
Ravali specializes in reinforcement learning algorithms including Markov Decision Process, Q learning, and Actor-critic methods. She has developed reinforcement learning agents for various games such as Tic-Tac-toe, Pong-man, Mountain hill climbing, and Cartpole using OpenAI Gym. Additionally, she operates with pretrained NLP models such as BERT, Spacy, and NLTK for tasks like Named Entity Recognition and Text Summarization.
Computer Vision and Explainable AI
Ravali has worked extensively on extracting tabular data from scanned and text-based PDFs using computer vision techniques. She is also proficient in the field of Explainable AI, making use of tools like LIME and SHAP to interpret machine learning models and assess model fairness.