Prayas Jain

Senior Software Engineer

Mountain View, California, United States7 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in AI and Machine Learning applications.
Proven track record in enhancing search algorithms.
Published research in NLP at a tier A conference.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled AI and Machine Learning engineer with a focus on NLP and big data analytics.

Contact

prayasjain1996@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningData AnalyticsNatural Language Processing

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentBig DataCC++Convex OptimizationData ScienceData StructuresDjangoGraph TheoryHBaseHadoopJavaLarge Language ModelsMathematics

About

Currently working on Video Multimodal Retrieval and Understanding for Google Search. I work on Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing. I am also interested in theoretical computer science and mathematics, with applications in convex optimization and deep learning. I also like prototyping my models for real world problems in Mobile Applications.

Experience

Google

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · Hybrid

Video Retrieval and Multimodal Understanding by finetuning large language models.

Video RetrievalMultimodal UnderstandingLarge Language ModelsArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

Software Engineer 3

May 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · Hybrid

Software Engineer in the Search Quality Ranking team. I work on improving the ranking of the results shown on Google Search by using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to select the most relevant, fresh and useful content.
Presently working on improving the Search by showing more Authentic, User-Generated Search Results.
Also working on leveraging LLMs to improve wholepage search ranking.

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSearch Quality RankingUser-Generated Content

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Strats Analyst

Jun 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

I work in the Surveillance Analytics team. My job revolves around analyzing big data including transactions and client information, and build effective, robust, high recall surveillance to mitigate against financial risks like money-laundering, terrorist financing, financial fraud.
I use big data techniques like hadoop, hbase along with Java for production, and Python for Machine Learning and Data Analytics

Big DataJavaPythonHadoopHBaseData Analytics+1

Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Bangalore

I worked in the Surveillance Analytics team. My project was to use big data frameworks like hadoop and hbase to build user time-series using E-Comm and V-Comm data.
Was offered a full-time role on the completion of this internship.

Big DataHadoopHBase

Iit bombay

Research Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Worked on a Research Project on Sarcasm Detection, under the Guidance of Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharya.
I used topic modelling for detection of sarcasm prevalent topics and used this information for better sarcasm detection in tweets.
Our work resulted in a publication and funding of the expenses for travel at COLING, a tier A NLP conference.

Sarcasm DetectionTopic ModellingNatural Language Processing