Abhishek Thakur

Abhishek Thakur, a machine learning engineer at Hugging Face and the world’s first quadruple Kaggle Grandmaster, shares insights from his fascinating journey. He discusses his evolution in Kaggle competitions, emphasizing practical skills gained along the way. Abhishek dives into his work on AutoNLP, revealing its goals and how it stacks up against handcrafted models. He also highlights key lessons in NLP techniques and the importance of blending theory with practice, alongside his experiences writing his book, Approaching (Almost) Any Machine Learning Problem.