Prateek Verma
Principal Scientist at Walmart Global Tech (Search Science - Ranking and Retrieval)
- Role
- Principal Data Scientist at Walmart Global Tech
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Prateek Verma
I lead a team of Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers, driving improvements in search experiences through advanced Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms. Our work in NLP and Information Retrieval has led to publications in top-tier conferences like SIGIR and KDD, along with a filed patent.
Experience
Principal Data Scientist
May 2023 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US
Tech lead in the search science team. Working on ranking and retrieval algorithms.Previously led search autocomplete and spellcheck machine learning team. Led the development of ML algorithms to improve ranking and coverage of Walmart\'s typeahead. Launched Neural Ranker for autocomplete which led to significant engagement lift.Built domain specific LLMs for e-commerce use cases. Fine tuned open source LLMs using low rank adaptation (LoRA) and applied RAG techniques to adapt for e-commerce.Received Make a Difference Award and Excellence award for the Walmart\'s autocomplete initiatives I led.
Education
UC Irvine
Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Computer Engineering
2012 — 2013
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
BE, Electronics and Communication
2007 — 2011
Skills
- Data Structures
- Cloud Computing
- Information Retrieval
- Machine Learning
- C
- Elasticsearch
- Core Java
- Algorithms
- Mapreduce
- Operating Systems
- Java
- Computer Vision
- Distributed Systems
- Web Services
- Image Processing
- Eclipse
- Matlab
- Xml
- Android Development
- Lucene
- Sdk
- Software Development
- Python
- C++
- Unix
- Multithreading
- Hadoop
- Android
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