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Director of Engineering, Notifications and Proactive AI Lead

Google

Leading the Notifications and Proactive AI organization at Google's Search Discovery

• Lead innovative Search products using cutting-edge AI technology
• Build innovative Search proactive products and features leveraging GenAI platforms
• Drive development of systems to keep users informed by digesting world's information
• Enable users to effortlessly use Gen AI to meet their daily needs

Principal Software Engineer, Search Growth Engineering Lead

Google

Led development of predictive systems and growth initiatives for Google Search

• Led development of predictive systems for ranking and triggering of proactive features
• Drove Google Search usage growth through sustainable user acquisition
• Led the Intent Prediction team of 50 members
• Developed frameworks for user information interests and timing optimization

Software Engineer to Senior Staff Software Engineer

Google

Led key search and language initiatives

• Led proactive search initiatives using personalized signals
• Led spelling correction and CLIR teams
• Developed revolutionary web-scale contextual spell checker
• System caught 38+ errors in professionally edited manuscripts

PhD

National University of Singapore

Computer Science

• Game AI
• Machine Learning

BMath

University of Waterloo

Pure Mathematics and Computer Science

Predicting intent of a search for a particular context

Predicting user needs for a particular context

Variational Bayesian approach to movie rating prediction

Proceedings of KDD Cup and Workshop

On Forward Pruning in Game-Tree Search

Web-scale Contextual Spell Checker

Revolutionized document editing by adapting Search spelling technology

• Detected context-specific errors traditional spell checkers missed
• Caught 38+ errors in professionally edited manuscripts
• Featured in author Amy Stewart's review