Amey Dharwadker works as a Machine Learning Tech Lead Manager at Meta, supporting Facebook's Video Recommendations Ranking team and working on building and deploying personalization models for billions of users. He has also been instrumental in driving a significant increase in user engagement and revenue for the company through his work on News Feed and Ads ranking ML models. As an experienced researcher, he has co-authored publications at various AI/ML conferences and patents in the fields of recommender systems and machine learning. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (India) and Columbia University.Time stamps of the conversation00:00:46 Introduction00:01:46 Getting into recommendation systems00:05:25 Projects currently working on at Facebook, Meta00:06:55 User satisfaction to improve recommendations00:08:25 Implicit Metrics to improve engagement00:11:34 Video vs product recommendations based on fixed attributes00:13:20 Understanding video content00:15:55 Working at Scale00:20:02 Cold start problem00:22:41 Data privacy concerns00:24:36 Challenges of deploying machine learning models00:30:56 Trade-off in metrics to boost user engagement00:33:47 Introspecting recommender systems - Interpretability 00:37:14 Long video vs short video - how to adapt algorithms?00:42:17 Being a Machine Learning Tech Lead Manager at Meta - work routine00:45:00 Transitioning to leadership roles00:50:55 Tips on interviewing for Machine Learning roles00:57:23 Machine Learning job interviews01:02:30 Finding your interest in AI/machine learning01:05:24 Transitioning to ML roles within the industry 01:08:36 Remaining updated to research 01:12:00 Advice to young computer science studentsMore about Amey: https://research.facebook.com/people/dharwadker-amey-porobo/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameydharwadker/Also check-out these talks on all available podcast platforms: https://jayshah.buzzsprout.comAbout the Host:Jay is a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University.Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahjay22/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaygshah22Homepage: https://www.public.asu.edu/~jgshah1/ for any queries.Stay tuned for upcoming webinars!***Disclaimer: The information contained in this video represents the views and opinions of the speaker and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of any institution. It does not constitute an endorsement by any Institution or its affiliates of such video content.***Checkout these Podcasts on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JayShahmlAbout the author: https://www.public.asu.edu/~jgshah1/

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