Gaurav Desai
AI COE Lead at UBS
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolGaurav Desai is an AI and data science leader with over a decade of experience building analytics practices, forecasting systems, and production ML at enterprises like Philips, Michelin and UBS. He has a proven track record of translating data strategy into measurable outcomes—establishing a data science practice, delivering 45+ models that saved €1.2M, and leading global segmentation and forecasting initiatives. Currently leading an AI COE at UBS, he is focused on agentic AI platforms and deploying AI agents at scale. Technically grounded yet strategic, he bridges hands-on modeling, architecture design and team leadership while driving digital transformation across distributed stakeholders. He pairs formal training from IISc, Bocconi and an MBA in Business Analytics with a pragmatic, iteration-first approach developed over 16+ years in analytics delivery.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Certification, Advance Computational Data Science, Post Graduate Certification, Advance Computational Data Science at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Executive Program in Business Analytics, Analytics and Bigdata, Executive Program in Business Analytics, Analytics and Bigdata at MISB Bocconi UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Business Analytics, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Analytics at Golden Gate UniversityB.E, Electronics and Telecomm, B.E, Electronics and Telecomm at SGGSGithub contributions (5)
GauravDesai85/Deep-Learning-Projects
May 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 10 months
GauravDesai85/ML_Practice
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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