Nilavra Pathak
Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Expedia Group
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNilavra Pathak is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Expedia Group with a decade of experience building production ML systems that drive marketing performance and profitability. She holds a PhD in Information Systems from UMBC, where her research applied ML to energy disaggregation and building characterization—expertise she now channels into real-world bidding systems. Nilavra designs and productionalizes bandit-based and MPC controllers for search marketing, delivering measurable gains such as 6% GP improvement at neutral ROAS and sustained transaction growth on large spend portfolios. She pairs systems thinking with rigorous experimentation to balance drivability to ROAS and business objectives, and has scaled modular pipelines across brands and lines of business. Comfortable moving models from research to robust production, she also brings cross-domain experience from energy forecasting and investment simulation that informs her data-driven approach. Based in New York, she combines academic depth with hands-on engineering to optimize complex, revenue-critical decision systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
English, Bengali, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
bayesian8
statistical-inference8
probabilistic7
mcmc7
deep-learning7
python7
bayesian-inference7
science6
modeling6
tensorflow6
probabilistic-models6
simulations6
dynamics6
simulation6
probabilistic-programming6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Nilavro/BSSPy
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Nilavro/Probabilistic-Models
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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