Hemanth Velaga
ML Engineer @ Apple | Search & Ranking | NLU | LLM-based Retrieval | Conversational & Agentic Search
- Role
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Hemanth Velaga
I’m a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, working on large-scale Search & Ranking systems across Apple’s media platforms — including the App Store, Music, TV, Books, Podcasts, Fitness+, and Sports.My work focuses on advancing Information Retrieval, Natural Language Understanding, and LLM-based Retrieval techniques to deliver high-quality, context-aware search and discovery experiences.I’m particularly interested in Conversational and Agentic Search systems and the application of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLM orchestration to real-world information access problems.I’m passionate about bridging the gap between applied ML engineering and modern IR research, and contributing to the evolving field of AI-powered search systems that understand intent and reasoning at scale.
Experience
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Mar 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Apple Media Products(App Store, Apple Music, Podcasts, AppleTV, Books, Fitness+, Sports) AI/ML Search Engineering
Education
Chaitanya Bharathi Institute Of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
2014 — 2018
The University of Texas at Dallas
Master's degree, Computer Science
2018 — 2020
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