Gaurav is a research associate within the Vollmer research group, based at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He does ML research as applied to understanding dynamical spatio-temporal phenomena including capital markets, supply-chains, and human population surveys.

Gaurav has almost a decade experience in the data-science field, but has spent his career focusing on humanitarian and economic development problems. Previously, Gaurav spent 3 years as founder and CEO of Arboreum, an AI-enabled last-mile supply-chain finance startup, and 4 years as the Lead Data Scientist at the UN World Food Programme. He was actually inspired to create Arboreum from observing informal credit systems in Africa and the resilience they bring to local communities and businesses. Prior to WFP he was a junior fellow at the William Davidson Institute–a Bill & Melinda Gates funded think tank on poverty-reduction through private-enterprise–where he worked on last-mile pharmaceutical supply-chains.

In his spare time he enjoys the art of making the perfect grilled cheese sandwich, gardening, and playing the ukelele. You can find him Amsterdam either running towards or away from something in an attempt to learn something new that may or may not have ended in abject failure.