About

Vivek Verma is a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer with over 4 years of industry experience and a research background in ML+Cybersecurity. He currently works as a Software Engineer at Facebook, where he focuses on improving integrity within Friending and Messaging by working on Ranking and Product treatments to decrease Unwanted Requests and Messages. Vivek is an expert in using ML and Ranking techniques to solve integrity problems in friending. He is also a skilled ML Ranking Engineer for the friend recommendation system in People You May Know, where he designs experiment strategies to grow FB's social graph. Vivek holds an advanced degree in ML from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has also completed his Higher Secondary School from Royal School, Jabalpur, M.P., and High School from St. Aloysius School, Polipathar, Jabalpur, M.P. In his previous role as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology, Vivek developed course content with the professor/TAs, hosted sessions to go over projects, implemented an autograder in Python, and graded exams and projects. He also worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Facebook, where he implemented a Feature Extraction Platform to emit Dataswarm pipeline tasks, developed a Recommendation Engine by leveraging the item-to-item Collaborative Filtering technique, and conducted feature engineering using Ad content and User signals. Vivek is proficient in Software Engineering, ML, Recommendation systems, and Python. He has relevant experience of 4.78 years and is a highly motivated individual with a passion for solving complex problems using ML techniques.