About

Vinodh Kumar Sunkara is a highly experienced Staff Software Engineer in the field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He completed his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and later pursued his Masters in Computer Science with a specialization in Interactive Intelligence (ML/AI) from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently, Vinodh works as a Senior Software Engineer at Facebook, Menlo Park, California, where he is responsible for developing Machine Learning solutions to reduce bad experiences on Facebook NewsFeed related to hate speech, anger, politics, social content, and graphical violence. He has also worked on Facebook Search, Recommendations, Ads Measurement problems, and has built machine learning models that are responsible for ranking different search result types like people, pages, photos, posts, etc. He has expertise in various ML techniques like LambdaMart, Gradient Boosted Decision Trees, Neutral Networks, etc., depending on the use case. Vinodh also has expertise in backend infrastructure changes, training data pipelines, index updates, and has contributed to Bing Search Index generation as part of Microsoft Web Data & Intelligence Platform team, where he worked as a Software Engineer. Prior to joining Facebook, Vinodh worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo, where he contributed to the Yahoo Search front end and was part of many major projects involving different partners with Yahoo. He implemented features for Yahoo Search that millions of people use on a daily basis and worked on many projects that have critical revenue impact. Vinodh played an important role in designing features for Yahoo Search on Mozilla as part of Yahoo-Mozilla five-year partnership signed. He was also a prime developer in integrating Google AdSense and web results on the Yahoo search page as part of the Yahoo-Google three-year partnership signed. Vinodh's education history includes a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, a Master of Science in Computer Science (ML/AI Specialization) from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor's in Technology (Honors) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Vinodh is an expert in ML, software engineering, search, big data, mobile, backend, and frontend development, and has relevant experience of 4.54 years. With his extensive experience and expertise, Vinodh is a valuable asset to any organization in the field of Machine Learning and