Nagaraj Kota
Gemini for Home | Agentic AI | Search & Assistant @ Google
- Role
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Google
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nagaraj Kota
Objective:To work on high impact business problems in Search, Assistant, Online Advertising, Social, Video, E-commerce, and other organic domains to drive user engagement/KPIs through data-driven applied research / engineering in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.Experience:Content/Quality modeling, Feed-ranking/optimization for the largest professional network. Tech leadership for Search @ Linkedin, for People, Jobs, and multi-modal (Text/video) Linkedin Learning (Education). Machine learning / Deep learning / AI based solutions for various Ranking / Classification usecases at Linkedin. Previously, multiple years of experience in Online Advertising (Display, Search, Product Listing, Native) involving Modeling for Ad response rate (CTR/CVR) estimation; Matching/Recommendation, Machine Learnt Ranking (MLR) for relevance/ranking; Query/Context/Doc understanding (intent, categories, entities); User behavior modeling for Personalization; Short-text modeling for entity extraction, tag recommendation.Specialties:Deep learning for Text/NLP/Ranking, Computational Advertising, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, NLP/NLU Data Mining, Big-Data AnalyticsProgramming:Tensorflow, Keras, Python, Java, Apache Pig, Apache Spark, R, Map-reduce, Hadoop
Experience
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Jul 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Assistant NLP team (2024 -): LLMs for Google Assistant products.Knowledge Engine Quality Team (20••••23)- Uber technical lead for horizontal multimodal content (text, images, videos/shorts) understanding through LLMs for annotation of structured concepts (entities, intents), powering diverse usecases in Search verticals/journeys, Lens, and Search Generative Experience (Magi).
Education
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Master's degree, Computer science
National Institute of Technology Karnataka
B.E., Information Technology
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Distributed Systems
- Computer Science
- Data Mining
- Algorithms
- Text Mining
- Hadoop
- Mapreduce
- Data Analysis
- Data Structures
- Awk
- Scalability
- Java
- Perl
- Big Data
- Apache Pig
- Python
- Natural Language Processing
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