Praveen Chandar
Podcast & Talk Audio Recommendation Lead & Staff Research Scientist
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolPraveen Chandar is a staff research scientist and tech lead with a decade of experience building search, recommendation, and large-scale experimentation systems, currently leading podcast and talk audio recommendation at Spotify. He specializes in translating state-of-the-art research into production—designing ML infrastructure (e.g., contributions to Spotify’s Kubeflow adoption), deploying neural recommenders for podcast discovery, and operationalizing causal LTV and off-policy evaluation methods. His work spans interdisciplinary teams and has driven company-wide improvements in experimentation, debiasing training data, and metric development, with outputs published at top conferences and adopted in production. A prolific researcher with 40+ publications and conference service, he also brings hands-on ML productization experience from IBM, X.ai, and Columbia, and a knack for rapid prototyping that jumpstarts ambitious product ideas.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of DelawareBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Anna University Chennai
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Github Skills (9)
information-retrieval3
conversational-ai3
evaluation3
rapid2
data-science2
machine-learning2
scale2
deep-learning2
mlops1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zenith-ml/zenithml
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Zenith ML provides a feature processors, data loaders, ML models for recommendations and search applications, and evaluation tools for rapid experimentation at scale.
Contributions:25 commits, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
ml-modelsexperimentationprocessorsdata-sciencedeep-learning
pchandar/pchandar.github.io
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Personal Homepage
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 1 month
personal-homepageconversational-aiinformation-retrieval
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