Nikhil Mehta
AI Research Scientist at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Mehta is an AI research scientist with nine years of experience blending deep learning research and production-scale ML at top labs, currently at Meta after leading generative retrieval and personalization work as a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. He holds a PhD in Deep Learning from Duke and spent formative years as a graduate researcher at iiD, with internship stints at Google Brain and Meta FAIR that bridged theory and systems. At DeepMind he invented Semantic IDs for generative retrieval, contributed to Gemini’s multimodal and personalization efforts, and helped deploy large recommender models that powered dozens of launches at YouTube. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs probabilistic ML and generative modeling expertise with a strong product-oriented track record of improving core metrics in real-world systems. An occasionally overlooked strength is his background in applied engineering from early roles at Zomato and IIT Kanpur, which gives him uncommon fluency in moving ideas from prototype to production.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Deep learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Deep learning at Duke UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Software Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering
Github Skills (17)
representation-learning9
autoencoder9
text-generation8
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
pipeline6
statistics6
kubeflow6
machine-learning6
kubeflow-pipelines5
bayesian-methods5
data-science5
kubernetes5
probabilistic-programming4
gnn4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nikhil-dce/Learning-Disentangled-Representations-under-Supervision
Sep 2017 - Nov 2019
Controllable Text Generation using variational auto-encoder (VAE) and text CNN
Contributions:40 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 2 months
autoencodertext-generation
google/nitroml
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:140 commits in 2 months
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