Why do we need data science in e-commerce?

Title Of the Talk: “ Why do we need data science in e-commerce? “
Speakers: Prof. Sourav Chakraborty (ISI, Kolkata)Dr. Shourya Roy
Host Faculty: Dr. Manish Singh
Date: : October 18 11:00 am

Abstract: In recent years e-commerce platforms have grown significantly riding on technological advancements, digital spread, and innovative business models. Through this period, the platforms have been generating an astronomical amount of data and leveraging the same to leapfrog by data-driven insights. Advances in data science in general as well as in specific areas such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, and generative AI etc. helped scale up their operations as hundreds of thousands of sellers sold millions of products to hundreds of millions of customers by over tens of thousands of pincodes through massive multi-echelon supply chain networks. However, the general understanding of the applicability of data science in e-commerce has been limited to a few popular ones.

In this talk, I will provide an overview of the expanse and potential of data science across the e-commerce funnel. I will go deep into a couple of areas and highlight the challenges and research directions from the experiences of solving those in one of the largest e-commerce companies of India and the world. I will conclude by bringing out how the data science landscape is evolving and enabling the next generation of e-commerce business models

Speaker Profile:

Dr. Shourya Roy is a Senior Research Director at Flipkart where he has been responsible for AI/ML/Data Science strategy and execution of a number of key initiatives across multiple business units. Prior to joining Flipkart in 2020, he spent over 18 years in various leadership roles in the industrial labs of IBM, Xerox and American Express.

Shourya’s technical expertise is broadly in AI/ML and specifically in NLP where he has been a well-known thought leader. He has been granted 35+ patents and his work has led to 80+ publications with 3000+ citations.

Shourya is an ACM Distinguished Member, was the President of the India Chapter of ACM SIGKDD (IKDD) and currently is a member of the ACM India Executive Council. Shourya has done Ph.D., M.Tech, and B.E. – all in Computer Science – from IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay and Jadavpur University respectively.

Date:
October 18 11:00am

Venue
EE Seminar Hall