About

Aravind Namandi Vembu is a Software Engineer at Google with over 10 years of experience in survey analysis, ranking systems, machine learning, and signal processing. He is passionate about reducing bias in Machine learning systems and making systems more inclusive. Aravind has a strong interest in Machine Learning Fairness and Inclusive Product Design. He is proficient in programming languages such as C++, C, OpenCV, MATLAB, Octave, PERL, and Python. Currently, Aravind is working as a Software Engineer in the Youtube Comments and Community Intelligence team at Google. He is responsible for working on user surveys to measure satisfaction with YouTube Comments, ranking improvements for comments on video watch page, and more. Previously, Aravind worked as a Software Engineer in the Google Play Music (GPM) and YouTube Music (YTM) Search and Recommendation team. He worked on music search improvements in Google Play Music and YouTube Music, search suggest implementation in GPM, and recommendations improvements in GPM. Before joining Google, Aravind worked as a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft in the Operating Systems Group Audio team and the Windows Phone Audio team. He also worked as an Intern in Speech, Language, and Multimedia Group at BBN Technologies. Aravind holds a Master's degree in EE (specializing in Signal and Image processing) from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Electronics and Communications from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. Aravind's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Product Design, Search, OpenCV, Backend, Infra, Python, and Java. His relevant experience in the industry is 10.70 years.