Our guest today is Rishabh Mehrotra, ex Tech Lead at Spotify and Director of Machine Learning at ShareChat.

In our conversation, Rishabh first talks about his transition from working as an analyst at Goldman Sachs to his PhD at UCL where he worked on deep models for user understanding, knowledge discovery and decision optimization. We then explore Machine Learning at Spotify which Rishabh joined in 2017 as a founding member of the research lab. We dig into recommender systems and discuss how AI can be used to improve user experience by understanding their behaviours and recommending personalised songs / playlists.

Rishabh also talks about his new role at ShareChat, a leading Indian social media platform with over 300 million users. We discuss the impact of machine learning on the creator economy, the main challenges, the importance of metrics to train and monitor ML models but also share advice on how to become a good Data Scientist / ML Engineer and progress in your career.

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