Experiences

Principal Applied Scientist at Zillow Inc. (2018 – 2022 and 2023 – Present)

Working in the Zillow AI Org.

  • Currently tech leading applied reasoning team within the Agentic AI org and giving reasoning ability to the copilot for the best end to end real estate experience.
  • Tech led projects for the Personalization team focused on the improvements for the offsite recommendation experience.
  • Previously developed Statistical and Machine Learning models for monitoring batch/streaming high-frequency time series data AND spatial data.
  • Previously developed a state of the art machine learning techniques and root cause detection methods to gain deeper insights on data quality.

Senior Research Scientist at Meta Platforms Inc (Formerly Facebook) (2022 – 2023)

Research Scientist at the Statistics and Privacy team working on long-term ML based technologies in the Ads Retrieval Domain

Senior Member Technical Staff (Statistician) at Tibco Inc. (2017 – 2018)

Worked in the Tibco Statistica (formerly Dell Statistica) team.

  • Developed a Dynamic Time Warping based algorithm for pairwise and batch alignment of time series data for pattern matching for IoT sensors and MSPC applications.
  • Developed a feature hashing technique for ultra-high dimensional feature selection.

Software Development Staff Engineer / Statistician at Dell Inc. (2016 – 2017)

  • Developed algorithm and implementation of Boosted Tree Models, specifically through partial dependence and interaction detection and on implementation of the Gradient Descent Algorithm.
  • Developed a novel distributed modeling technique using Alternating Least Squares algorithm to perform dimensionality reduction for large sparse matrix operations.

Intern Graduate Advisor at Dell Inc. (2015)

  • Developed a novel approach to perform Bayesian reliability optimization with continuous and binary responses for desirability profiling.