Video recommendations using Machine Learning at Facebook, News feed & Ads ranking | Amey Dharwadker

Amey Dharwadker works as a Machine Learning Tech Lead Manager at Meta, supporting Facebook's Video Recommendations Ranking team and working on building and deploying personalization models for billions of users. He has also been instrumental in driving a significant increase in user engagement and revenue for the company through his work on News Feed and Ads ranking ML models. As an experienced researcher, he has co-authored publications at various AI/ML conferences and patents in the fields of recommender systems and machine learning. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (India) and Columbia University.

Time stamps of the conversation
00:00:46 Introduction
00:01:46 Getting into recommendation systems
00:05:25 Projects currently working on at Facebook, Meta
00:06:55 User satisfaction to improve recommendations
00:08:25 Implicit Metrics to improve engagement
00:11:34 Video vs product recommendations based on fixed attributes
00:13:20 Understanding video content
00:15:55 Working at Scale
00:20:02 Cold start problem
00:22:41 Data privacy concerns
00:24:36 Challenges of deploying machine learning models
00:30:56 Trade-off in metrics to boost user engagement
00:33:47 Introspecting recommender systems - Interpretability 
00:37:14 Long video vs short video - how to adapt algorithms?
00:42:17 Being a Machine Learning Tech Lead Manager at Meta - work routine
00:45:00 Transitioning to leadership roles
00:50:55 Tips on interviewing for Machine Learning roles
00:57:23 Machine Learning job interviews
01:02:30 Finding your interest in AI/machine learning
01:05:24 Transitioning to ML roles within the industry 
01:08:36 Remaining updated to research 
01:12:00 Advice to young computer science students

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