Arun Balagopalan
Principal Applied Scientist at Zillow Group
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolArun Balagopalan is a Principal Applied Scientist at Zillow Group with 13 years of experience building machine learning, NLP, and information retrieval systems. He has led production ML efforts across ad targeting and consumer-facing search and recommendation products, translating research into scalable engineering solutions. Prior roles include leading decision-science engineering at Conversant and building classification systems at SET Media, grounded in an academic background (M.S. CS, UC Irvine) where he developed user-friendly topic-modeling tools. Arun is comfortable bridging research and product teams, shipping robust pipelines and models that impact user experience at scale. Based in New York, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and a track record of operationalizing NLP in real-world, high-throughput environments.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BTech Computer Science & Engineering, BTech Computer Science & Engineering at Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (81)
bots10
dialogue-systems10
voice10
chatbot10
google-assistant10
bot-framework10
conversations10
assistants9
conversational-ai9
nlp9
dialogflow9
botkit9
facebook9
machine-learning9
watson9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arunbg/Topic-Modeling-Tool
Aug 2012 - May 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 7 years 10 months
arunbg/pignlproc
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
nlpcorporaapache-pigmachine-learningapache
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