Rajesh Parekh Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Mountain View, California, Us

I lead efforts to deliver best-in-class financial large language + computer vision models that specialize in solving our customers’ (both SMB and consumer) most pressing problems around tax, accounting, marketing, cash flow, and personal finance.

Menlo Park, California, Us

Strategic advisor and thought partner to the CEO and CTO at LigaData.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Advisor to The Hive's portfolio companies.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I led the engineering team building the high-quality digital model of the real world that powers Google Maps and other products like Local Search, Ads, and Google Automotive Services. We leveraged state-of-the-art computer vision and language model algorithms to automate the creation of a highly fresh and accurate map.Highlights:* Drove 10X+ richness and freshness of the data by implementing ML powered automation, closed-loop solutions for global data curation and maintenance, and scalable measurements. * Unlocked the value of strategic data assets delivering $1B+ in incremental Ads revenue.* Launched highly detailed data in Google Maps increasing engagement by 1% while reducing mapping cost 10x and delivered AutoData products that enabled landing key auto OEM partners. * Built and lead a high-performing global team of 150+ engineers and developed key leaders through strong, empathetic leadership, mentorship, and coaching.* Led Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) initiatives driving quantifiable improvements in representation and inclusivity.

I built and scaled Data Science and Analytics teams from scratch and drove strong product growth across key Facebook products and platforms -- Video, Applied Machine Learning, and Education (K-12). Highlights:* Successful global launch of Facebook Live Video; Drove a >2X increase in total video watch time powered by key insights about broadcasters, viewers, and video content.* Built the Data Science team of the Applied Machine Learning platform and led initiatives that improved algorithm performance in areas like the AI Camera, Language Translation, and Speech Transcription.* Led data science and analytics efforts of Facebook's K-12 education program driving strong adoption of the Personalized Learning Platform across the Summit Public Schools.

Chicago, Il, Us

I built the global Data Science and Business Intelligence team comprising of 65 data scientists, data engineers, analysts, and product managers. My team's work on data insights, analytics, and modeling has had far reaching impact across the organization. Highlights:* Built large-scale user models and global data products for user-deal targeting, personalized recommendations, and customer loyalty & engagement driving significant incremental revenue growth.* Optimized the end-to-end sales process providing the sales team with data powered tools for hyper-local placement of sales-representatives, merchant selection, and deal parameter setting.* Partnered with product and engineering teams to drive product innovation.* Voice of Data partnering with the S-team to define the strategy for sustained revenue growth and promote the adoption of a data-driven culture across the organization.* Attracted, nurtured, and grew grew global Data Science, Big Data Analytics, and Business Intelligence talent on the team.* Led efforts on data democratization and self-service by publishing global dashboards with drill-down capabilities and alerts to monitor business health that directly addressed most stake-holder questions.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Led a talented team of scientists and engineers at Yahoo! Labs to build advanced solutions for display ad targeting. Responsible for the science behind Yahoo!'s flagship display advertising product - behavioral targeting. Drove the strategy and research behind new display ad targeting products.Major focus areas include display ad targeting, increasing ad monetization, optimizing placement of sponsored search ads, online click fraud detection, optimizing large scale display and search engine marketing (SEM) campaigns, user behavior modeling, and social network analysis.

Responsible for the design and implementation of several key components of the Blue Martini Business Intelligence and Data Mining suite, mining client and prospect data to uncover interesting nuggets of information, and providing data mining expertise to Blue Martini sales and professional services.

Northbrook, Il, Us

Applied research in data mining and knowledge discovery with emphasis on insurance problems such as cross-sell, retention, fraud detection, and customer lifetime value modeling.

Ph.D., Computer Science (Focus On Artificial Intelligence)

M.S., Computer Science

B.E., Computer Engineering