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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Deployed deep learning models at scale for ranking algorithmic web search results. Applied large language models for search relevance evaluation tasks. Established framework for addressing bias and targeted misinformation threats in search ranking. Improved search quality on Bing worldwide.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Designed and built a v1 metric for evaluating the quality of digital assistants and conversational search experiences. Expanded end to end evaluation of whole page search experience to 10+ markets with trained annotators and large scale crowdsourcing.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for the relevance of searches for hotels, restaurants, businesses and places on Bing.com, Cortana, and Windows 10. Extended the query understanding and intent extraction capabilities for natural language searches. Designed the API for serving business and place data that enables other applications and services to benefit from the Bing knowledge graph.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Improved the quality of map search on the Bing Maps website and Windows Maps app. Designed and implemented metrics to measure worldwide quality and identify areas needing focus. Led the team that refined geocoding accuracy, implemented search assistance features (query autocomplete and entity suggestions), and improved underlying map data quality.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Built systems that enabled data mining of very large scale data sources to improve relevance, quality and freshness of Bing algorithmic web results worldwide. Used machine learning techniques to improve search result ranking and query spell correction. Built flexible experimentation systems that allowed rapid algorithm exploration, refinement and measurement. Worked across Microsoft divisions to implement telemetry and instrumentation in Microsoft products that is used to improve search quality. From January through June 2010, fulfilled this role while based in the Microsoft Search Technology Center in Beijing, China.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led the original program management team that built the MSDN and TechNet Publishing System, a database-driven content management and rendering platform using ASP.NET and SQL Server that hosts the millions of pages of technical documentation on those sites.Also built the Microsoft .NET Framework community web site - GotDotNet - and set up the initial platform for corporate blogging at Microsoft in this role.