Hi, I am Apurve. A Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer with nearly a decade of experience.

I currently serve as Principal Data Scientist at DriveBuddyAI, the AI and telematics division of Roadzen, where I lead data science initiatives at the intersection of artificial intelligence and automotive technology.

Work History

only the good shipped things

    2022 - present
  • Lead development of real-time driver behavior analysis system, improving fleet safety and efficiency while processing 10K+ events daily.
  • Reduced false positive events by 30% year-over-year through model improvement systems.
    2020 - 2022
  • Built a Transformer-based NLP model for extracting Climate Change disclosures from 10-K reports with 85% accuracy
  • Developed end-to-end data pipeline architecture for hotel booking platform.
    2019 - 2020
  • Generated readable textual descriptions for apartment listings from tabular data using a GPT-2 based model.
  • Deployed an improved image auto-filter for the rental listing platform. This included object detection to remove images with unwanted objects and an image classifier to categorize images (e.g., bedroom, balcony).
    2017 - 2019
  • Achieved 95%+ accuracy in intent classification systems using minimal domain-specific training data using Transformer-based models.
  • Build an automated multi-tenant fine-tuning pipeline for intent classification models for 10+ enterprise clients (T-Mobile, Singtel, Target, Westjet, and many more)
    2016 - 2017
  • Built a financial model to predict credit worthiness for SMEs for B2B lending.
  • Created API based system to gather financial information and generate a corporate credit report.
    Other usefull stuff
  • I have been granted patent for 'Integrated Road Quality Assessment System'. This approach involves identifying and gathering road quality data using GNSS, IMU and Computer Vision.
  • My team and I showcased our AI-powered Driver Monitoring System (DMS) at InCabin Europe 2025 in Barcelona.
  • We also exhibited at CES 2026 in Las Vegas.
  • I completed a couple of cool courses from AshokaX – The Academy, Ashoka University in 2020.
    • “Introduction to Behavioural Science” by Neela A Saldanha
    • "Economic and Financial Crises in India: Food, Fuel, Forex and Flu" by Arvind Subramanian, the former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India.
  • I have been a DataKind reviewer for the data.org Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge, where I reviewed a large number of proposals for viability.