Abhishek Tayal's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

Research Intern @ Central Scientific Instrumentation Lab From May 2008 to July 2008 (3 months) Software Engineer - Machine learning @ TellApart (Acquired By Twitter) From April 2015 to May 2015 (2 months) Burlingame, CaliforniaSenior ML Engineer @ Twitter Cortex @ Twitter From April 2017 to August 2018 (1 year 5 months) Research Assistant @ Information Sciences...

Research Intern @ Central Scientific Instrumentation Lab From May 2008 to July 2008 (3 months) Software Engineer - Machine learning @ TellApart (Acquired By Twitter) From April 2015 to May 2015 (2 months) Burlingame, CaliforniaSenior ML Engineer @ Twitter Cortex @ Twitter From April 2017 to August 2018 (1 year 5 months) Research Assistant @ Information Sciences Institute Worked on application oriented CPU benchmarking. From August 2011 to December 2011 (5 months) System Software Developer Intern @ Zoho Corporation Worked on implementing a data center wide performance monitoring solution with a view of using the gained information in making better-informed load management decisions. Also aimed at integrating the functionality of the tool on top of OpenStack. From June 2011 to August 2011 (3 months) ML Engineer : Ads Prediction @ Twitter Was part of the ads relevance team for Direct Response (DR) ad offerings from Twitter. Worked on a variety of prediction models and lead two major efforts on the team:Lead a team of 6 for an end to end effort (including ML and Eng) to serve Mobile App Promotion ads on 3rdParty inventory. Lead the development of the ML components (prediction models training, serving and spend control) as part of creating a dedicated ads serving stack for DR  ad products.  From May 2015 to March 2017 (1 year 11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Development Intern @ ST-Ericsson Development and testing of firmware in C/C++ of IP's that were a part of ST ERICSSON's ARM® Cortex-A9 based multicore processor equipped multimedia SOC for 3G/3.5G mobile platforms.· Gained experience working on IBM's Rational Clear Case (version tool), Klocwork, Coverity, Trace 32(JTAG based Debugger), Perl, Slick Edit etc. Also developed a standalone automation tool in Perl. From January 2009 to July 2009 (7 months) Staff ML Engineer @ Twitter Part of the Deep learning group at Twitter : Cortex (https://cortex.twitter.com).I initiated and tech lead the effort to make Embeddings a first class citizen of Twitter ML infrastructure. As part of the effort worked on developing algorithms and infrastructure to learn and consume [email protected] From August 2018 to June 2019 (11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware development engineer (SDE2) @ Amazon Was part of the Amazon Prime Video Recommendations team, where i lead the development of a first generation ML based Video recommendation system. From June 2012 to March 2015 (2 years 10 months) SeattleSr Engineering Manager - Shopping Recommendations @ Pinterest We are hiring !! Manager, Machine Learning Engineering @Twitter Cortex @ Twitter I manage the MLX (ML Extended Environment) team within cortex (Twitter's central ML org). It is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and engineers with the mission to advance recommendation system technology @ Twitter. From timeline ranking to ads ranking to new user on-boarding, recommendation systems are prevalent across Twitter. We are building shared components that can then be reused across product teams and can empower Twitter products to deliver a gratifying user experience. Some of the areas our team is working on include:- Building algorithms and infra to learn representations (Embeddings) of Twitter nouns eg: Users, Tweets etc.- Developing recommendation (candidate generation) algorithms that can take into account content as well as collaborative information.- Developing and pushing the boundaries on approximate search infra that operates on embedding spaces.We are hiring, reach out if you are interested in working on some of the exciting projects at Twitter Cortex. From August 2018 to August 2020 (2 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay Area