Our esteemed guest Tuba Islam, who works as a Machine Learning Specialist at Google Cloud, based in London, was with us!

She is a machine learning specialist at Google Cloud, based in London, primarily focusing on deep learning, forecasting, natural language processing and the automation of machine learning solutions. Before Google, she was a data scientist at SAS, working globally across Europe and US. She started her career in research and development at the National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology in Turkey implementing speech recognition engine for Turkish. She has an engineering background in electronics and hold a master’s degree in digital signal processing. What she enjoys the most is understanding the business problems and designing analytical solutions to solve them in simple, creative and effective ways. She delivered successful projects across various industries such as rogue trader fraud detection in capital markets, smart metering analytics in utilities, hazard detection and readmission prediction in healthcare, credit risk in banking, churn prediction in telecom, rate making in insurance, demand forecasting in retail, pharmacovigilance analysis in life sciences.