Tarun A. Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Experienced manager in the Global Search Quality (GSQ) team at Amazon, focusing on enhancing customer search experiences. Our team is dedicated to making it easy for customers worldwide to find relevant products, no matter how they express their search intent. We achieve this by developing cutting-edge models, systems, and algorithms that interpret complex natural language search queries, and surface the most relevant results from Amazon's vast selection. I am skilled in leading teams of scientists, engineers, and managers to drive data-driven experimentation, performance analysis, and goal setting to achieve business objectives and deliver measurable improvements in search quality and customer satisfaction. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align priorities and ensure the successful execution of projects. Proven ability to recruit, onboard, and mentor team members, fostering a culture of innovation and high performance. Our team's expertise is demonstrated through our published works:https://www.amazon.science/publications/blend-and-match-distilling-semantic-search-models-with-different-inductive-biases-and-model-architectureshttps://www.amazon.science/publications/pefa-parameter-free-adapters-for-large-scale-embedding-based-retrieval-modelshttps://www.amazon.science/publications/blend-and-match-distilling-semantic-search-models-with-different-inductive-biases-and-model-architectureshttps://www.amazon.science/publications/semantic-product-searchhttps://www.amazon.science/publications/augmenting-training-data-for-massive-semantic-matching-models-in-low-traffic-e-commerce-storeshttps://www.amazon.science/publications/extreme-multi-label-learning-for-semantic-matching-in-product-searchhttps://www.amazon.science/publications/web-scale-semantic-product-search-with-large-language-models

Seattle, Washington, Us

As the manager of Zillow's Core NLP and Conversational AI team, I bring a proven track record of success in managing ML scientists and engineers to develop cutting-edge NLP applications in the real estate industry. My team's focus is on creating NLP/ML products that enhance the home-buying, selling, and renting experience through natural interactions.We have already launched a guided search experience [https://www.zillow.com/tech/personalized-search-refinements/] and continue to work on initiatives that bring natural language technologies to property search and customer interactions [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-qGSyzDL6g] [https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/]. Our goal is to serve millions of customers through voice and chat and our team's strength lies in our ability to quickly prototype and bring low latency models into production.Building strong relationships with both internal and external clients, I lead a team of highly skilled professionals who have strong technical skills and a passion for tackling new challenges. Join us in shaping the future of real estate through NLP and AI.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As a lead in Alexa AI's Ranking and Arbitration team, I successfully managed MLEs to build models and systems that enhanced the customer experience. With the help of these models, Alexa customers could easily discover and engage with thousands of skills without the need to remember their names. My efforts resulted in the launch of models in the German and Indian marketplaces, as well as improvements in the US marketplace.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As a lead on the team for Amazon's Customer Service bot, I worked on 0 to 1 launch of a product that handled 100% of customer inquiries on mobile in the US, UK, and India. My responsibilities included development of natural language models, improving workflows, and mentoring team members.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As a member of the Elastic Machine Learning (EML) team at Amazon, I was part of a dynamic group that developed a hosted ML platform for internal teams, serving both real-time and batch prediction needs at massive scale. The team's success led to the launch of AWS' first ML service in 2015, which has since been succeeded by AWS SageMaker.In addition, I have a track record of leading teams to success. Teams that I led, won in Amazon-wide ML hackathons, in 2012 first position and 2013 runner-up on one of the tasks for the respective years. I also co-organized the 2014 hackathon.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As part of the Fulfillment by Amazon (fba.amazon.com) team, I played a key role in developing distributed services to facilitate order fulfillment for third-party sellers.

Ridgefield Park, Nj, Us

While at Samsung's research lab in Dallas, I made significant contributions to the Open Mobile Alliance's Device Management library. This project was successfully launched on all new Samsung devices in the US market for Qualcomm and Android OS-based platforms.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

As a member of the Wireless Communication lab led by Prof. P Vijay Kumar, Fellow IEEE, I contributed to the research project for wireless sensor networks within the ECE department. My focus was on developing energy-efficient algorithms for distributed sensing, specifically for intrusion detection, using low-power sensors. I also created simulations to demonstrate these algorithms.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

As an ML Engineer at a company specializing in building in-silico technologies for the pharmaceutical industry, I developed algorithms for the desktop ML Platform (Admetis/Sarchitect). This platform provides the pharma researchers the ability to model and predict the drug-relevant properties of drug like chemical molecules.

B.Tech., Electrical Engineering

Ms, Electrical Engineering