About

Sourav Bose is a distinguished leader in artificial intelligence, with over 7 years of international experience in transforming businesses and creating value with data sciences, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in the banking and financial services industry. He has won the Wealth & Finance International AI Awards and has significant experience leading and managing multi-disciplinary and agile cross-functional teams focused on AI/ML proficiency of different sizes and capacities. Sourav exhibits solid expertise in investments, forex, and insurance domains and has demonstrated the ability for critical and out-of-the-box thinking with strong mathematical, analytic, and problem-solving skills with keen business acumen. He is skilled in predictive analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. He is a quick learner who thrives in high-pressure and time-sensitive environments. Sourav's specialties include AI solutions with computation linguistics, computer vision, and machine learning, commercializing machine learning capabilities, marketing analytics, pricing and promotional analytics with optimization, digital data analysis, social network analysis, and survey data analysis. His machine learning and deep learning knowledge include GBM/XGBoost/neural networks/SVM/random forest, linear regression/logistic regression/ridge regression/lasso regression, regularization/K-fold cross-validation/ensemble modeling/blending/stacking, apriori/collaborative filtering/content-based methods/hybrid classification recommender, K-means/hierarchical clustering, time series forecasting, optimization/linear programming, natural language processing, understanding, and generation, deep learning/computer vision, generative algorithms/reinforcement learning. Sourav is currently working as Vice President (Data Science, ML & AI) | Group Enterprise AI at UOB, where he is responsible for leadership in AI/ML & digital analytics for Group Enterprise AI across all divisions, subsidiaries & ventures of UOB Group. He leads AI/ML initiatives for digital bank subsidiaries across different markets in the Asia Pacific and spearheads & drives innovation through artificial intelligence & intelligent automation solutions across the group. Sourav has also worked as an adjunct faculty & mentor for data science & machine learning at upGrad and as a lead scientist (machine learning & AI) at Next-Wave Consulting, EY Asia-Pacific. He has an integrated BS & MS (Honors & Thesis) degree in engineering physics (major), mathematics, and computer science (minor) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a General Certificate of Education - Ordinary & Advanced Level degree in general