Ronay AK

Ronay Ak is a senior data scientist at NVIDIA working on information retrieval for RAG applications. Before her current role, she focused on deep learning-based recommender systems and was one of the engineers building the NVIDIA Merlin framework. She received her PhD in Energy and Power Systems Engineering discipline from CentraleSupelec in France. She was part of the NVIDIA AI team that won the WSDM WebTour Workshop Challenge 2021 by Booking.com and SIGIR’21 E-commerce data challenge hosted by Coveo. She has authored 20+ technical publications published in internationally reputed conferences and journals and delivered numerous hands-on tutorials for academic and industry audiences as an NVIDIA DLI certified instructor.
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Posts by Ronay AK

Generative AI

Develop Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Systems with Efficient Data Storage

Efficient text retrieval is critical for a broad range of information retrieval applications such as search, question answering, semantic textual similarity,... 8 MIN READ
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Generative AI

Evaluating Retriever for Enterprise-Grade RAG

The conversation about designing and evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems is a long, multi-faceted discussion. Even when we look at retrieval... 14 MIN READ
Generative AI

Build Enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation Apps with NVIDIA Retrieval QA Embedding Model

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming the AI landscape with their profound grasp of human and programming languages. Essential for next-generation... 12 MIN READ
Data Science

Transformers4Rec: Building Session-Based Recommendations with an NVIDIA Merlin Library

Recommender systems help you discover new products and make informed decisions. Yet, in many recommendation-dependent domains such as e-commerce, news, and... 8 MIN READ
Data Science

How to Build a Winning Deep Learning Powered Recommender System-Part 3

Recommender systems (RecSys) have become a key component in many online services, such as e-commerce, social media, news service, or online video streaming.... 21 MIN READ