Rajiv Shah

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area United States

Data Scientist at DataRobot / AI Researcher

Education

When I was in the military, my nickname was the “why guy”. No matter what I was asked to do, I would look inquisitively and ask “why?”. I always wanted to understand the larger goal, because I wanted to find a better solution. I still haven’t changed. I still ask why, but now I have a set of tools to better understand why. Check out my projects page for some of my publicly available work. My focus is always trying to extract a concrete problem and then identify/create the data to solve the problem. As part of this process, I am always looking for better tools and am familiar with tools in AI/deep learning (recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks and reinforcement l...