Professional Experience
- Leadership: Lead a high-impact team of tech leads, applied researchers, and engineers advancing ML/IR for core search, Agentic Search, and Module Arbitration.
- Execution: Achieved 80%+ project goal completion across 10 consecutive quarters.
- Business Impact: Awarded eBay’s inaugural AI Business Impact Award (2025) by CEO Jamie Iannone. Delivered 86% of 2025 revenue goals in H1, surpassing $1B growth targets.
- Innovation: Architected next-gen training platform (20x faster velocity) and pioneered Mixture-of-Ranking-Experts, generating $300M+ incremental annual revenue.
- Team Leadership: Led 7+ scientists/engineers from proposal to prototype for Conversational Language Learning beta.
- Product Impact: Reduced false rejections by 10% and repeat failures by 15% in Alexa Translation; improved ASR WER by 5%.
- Research: Won 1st place at IWSLT 2022 for MT Formality Control; designed GPT-based paraphrasing pipelines boosting accuracy by 4%.
- Built deep learning models for clinical sequence prediction and designed clinical research database web apps for medical data analytics.
Selected Publications & Patents
Formality Control for Machine Translation
IWSLT 2022 • 1st Place Challenge Winner
Enhancing Related Searches Recommendation System by Leveraging LLM Approaches
RecSys 2025
Contextual Mixture of Ranking Models
Submitted to SIGIR 2026
Enhancing Buyer Engagement on Related Query Recommendation System by Leveraging LLM Approaches
US. Patent IP-P3928PRV 2025
Honors & Awards
- AI Business Impact Award eBay (Presented by CEO) 2025
- 1st Place IWSLT Machine Translation Formality Control Challenge 2022
- 1st Place NYU Healthcare Makerthon 2017
- Best Remote Office Award Twitter Hack Week 2015
Education
Dissertation: Topics in Interactive Search with Large Language Models