Gaurav Desai
Director - Data Ethics And Trustworthy AI Specialist
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolGaurav Desai is a Zurich-based Director specializing in Data Ethics and Trustworthy AI with eight years of experience bridging hands-on engineering and model risk management. He progressed from software engineering and credit-risk systems to leading AI and transaction monitoring model validation at UBS, now focusing on ethical evaluation and AI risk for production models. Technically fluent in Python, R, Java and practical tools like Jupyter and IntelliJ, he combines coding chops with regulatory rigor to make models auditable and compliant. His background includes designing regulatory stress architectures and overseeing financial-crime model validation, giving him deep domain expertise in risk-sensitive ML applications. A UC Berkeley MIDS graduate and active coder with a public portfolio, he uniquely pairs practitioner-level implementation skills with strategic governance of AI systems.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information and Data Science, Data Science, Master of Information and Data Science, Data Science at UC Berkeley School of InformationBE, IT, BE, IT at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
English, Marathi, Hindi
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Github Skills (15)
scikit-learn10
data-analysis10
statistics10
machine-learning10
python10
data-science10
scikit10
json6
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javascript6
jquery6
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credit5
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gauravkdesai/MIDS-W210-Medical_Insurance_Payment_Assistant
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 release, 94 commits, 69 pushes in 2 months
gauravkdesai/207_Applied_ML
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
Homework and Supporting Docs for MIDS 207
Contributions:7 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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