Bhargav Srinivasa-Desikan is a research engineer working for INRIA in Lille, France. He is a part of the MODAL (Models of Data Analysis and Learning) team, and has a deep interest in modern text analysis. He works on metric learning, predictor aggregation, and data visualization. He is a regular contributor to the Python open source community, and completed Google Summer of Code in 2016 with Gensim where he implemented Dynamic Topic Models. He is a regular speaker at PyCons and PyDatas across Europe and Asia, and conducts tutorials on text analysis using Python.