Principal AI Engineer and technical lead for AI in LinkedIn’s Talent Enterprise Engineering division. PhD from University of Arizona. 12+ years of experience in ML and AI engineering across research and product development in the areas of retrieval and ranking for search and recommendations, natural language understanding, and multi-task learning. Worked at Google for 6 years on Deep Learning approaches for Natural Language Understanding and Youtube community intelligence. Responsible for LinkedIn’s technical vision combining LLMs and Generative AI with search and recommendation systems to enhance enterprise productivity at scale. Research publications at conferences including ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, and AAAI. Google Scholar, DBLP.