Devansh Tandon
AI Research & Product at Meta | prev: DeepMind, YouTube, Google APM
- Role
- Ai Research & Product at Meta
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Devansh Tandon
Product leader at Meta, AI for recommendations – focused on Instagram Reels relevance. Previously, I led ML/AI teams at Google for 7 years, building the largest ML models across Ads, Search, Discover, YouTube, Gemini. I led YouTube\'s recommendation engine, which drives 70% of video watch time for 2 billion+ daily active users. Incubated a new generative recommendation system using Gemini at DeepMind. Tech talk: Teaching Gemini to Speak YouTube: Adapting LLMs for Video Recommendations to 2B+DAU - Devansh Tandon Paper: PLUM: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for Industrial-scale Generative Recommendations(https://arxiv.org/abs/25•••••84)
Experience
Ai Research & Product
Oct 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
MRS Research: Founding a new lab to train frontier LLMs for recommendations – powering recommendations across Instagram, Facebook, Ads.Instagram Relevance PM, leading the core AI & recommendations team for Instagram Reels.IG Reels drives the majority of time spent on Instagram for 3 billion monthly active users, and has an annual run rate of $50 billion.
Education
Yale University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Economics
University of Cambridge
Development Economics
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