About

Nagaraj Kota is a Senior Staff ML Engineer at Google Search with over 15 years of experience in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Retrieval. He has a proven track record of delivering high-impact solutions for various domains such as Search, Assistant, Online Advertising, Social, Video, and E-commerce. Nagaraj has expertise in Deep Learning for Text/NLP/Ranking, Computational Advertising, Machine Learning, NLP/NLU Data Mining, and Big-Data Analytics. Nagaraj's experience includes content/quality modeling, feed-ranking/optimization, and tech leadership for Search at LinkedIn. He has also developed machine learning/deep learning/AI-based solutions for various ranking/classification use cases at LinkedIn. Previously, he has worked on online advertising involving modeling for ad response rate estimation, matching/recommendation, machine-learned ranking, query/context/doc understanding, and user behavior modeling for personalization. Nagaraj's specialties include Deep Learning for Text/NLP/Ranking, Computational Advertising, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, NLP/NLU Data Mining, and Big-Data Analytics. He is proficient in programming languages such as TensorFlow, Keras, Python, Java, Apache Pig, Apache Spark, R, Map-reduce, and Hadoop. Currently, Nagaraj is working on search context understanding efforts in multilingual, multitask, multimodal settings with rich augmentation of entity representation from knowledge graph. He is also working on understanding/embedding passages, queries, intents at scale for various applications in Search leveraging KG, Deep Neural Networks, L2R. Nagaraj has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NIT). He has worked at LinkedIn as a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning, and has scaled/extended distributed training of deep neural networks through data/model parallelisms in TensorFlow framework. Nagaraj's tech stack includes ML, Search, AI, Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Deep Learning, NLP, Information Retrieval, NLU, TensorFlow, Keras, Spark, Neural Networks, Research Scientist, Hadoop, language models, Python, and Java.