Gagan Bansal

AI Researcher

Mountain View, California, United States17 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led multimodal LLM projects at YouTube.
Developed state-of-the-art ML models for Google DeepMind.
Published 15 papers and patents in machine learning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C and B2B Machine Learning expert with a focus on Generative AI and Data Science.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningGenerative AiData ScienceData AnalysisComputer Vision

Other Skills

Multimodal LLMsAlgorithmsNatural Language ProcessingData MiningTime Series AnalysisForecastingUser ModelingGraph AlgorithmsGPU ProgrammingHadoopPerlC++UnixBashScalability

About

I am a research lead working on Gemini models at Google DeepMind. Previously I was the research lead responsible for multimodal LLMs at YouTube deployed for state-of-the-art user & creator facing Generative AI applications and for business critical discriminative tasks. Overall, I have 15 years of experience in leading and managing teams of software engineers and research scientists building state-of-the-art ML models for complex and ambiguous features in both enterprise and user facing consumer applications. I have ~15 papers & patents related to ML and have served on the program committee of ML conferences.

Experience

17 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Google deepmind

Senior Staff Research Engineer, Gemini

Jul 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 10 mos · Mountain View, CA

I work on Gemini model pretraining at Google DeepMind.
Previously, I was the Google DeepMind research lead for multimodal LLMs at YouTube as part of which I launched >20 LLM related projects involving 100s of research scientists, engineers and product managers.
I have led multiple launches including:
Conversation Chat feature in YouTube
Video ideation and outlines for YouTube creators. Announced at Made On event in Sept, 2023.
Generation of titles for auto generated chapters in YouTube. Announced by Sundar in Google IO, 2022
YouTube search ranking, which provided the single biggest improvement in search ranking quality.
Fact checking in YouTube search
SmartCompose in Gmail. Announced by Sundar in Google IO, 2018.

Machine LearningGenerative AIMultimodal LLMsAlgorithmsComputer Vision

Microsoft

Senior Data Scientist Manager, Azure Machine Learning

Aug 2012 – Jul 2017 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Founding member of the Azure Machine Learning data science team. Managed a team of data scientists to forecast Microsoft's revenue using Machine Learning working with the CFO. Designed and developed central time series forecasting library used in all forecasting projects across various teams inside Microsoft. Led the algorithm design and development of the new forecasting functions released in Excel, 2016.

Machine LearningTime Series AnalysisData ScienceForecasting