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.