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• Optimize Visual Shopping Journey with Embedding-based Retrieval in Pinterest Closeup | SIGIR'25

  Optimizing embedding-based retrieval for personalized product Pins on Pinterest. Introduces Shopping Priority Corpora built from probability models over a dynamic billion-scale inventory, paired with multimodal multi-task contrastive learning to balance relevance and engagement. Deployed in production with significant metric gains.

• Revisiting Open Domain Query Facet Extraction and Generation | ICTIR'22

  Open domain query facet extraction via sequence labeling and extreme multi-label classification, outperforming prior baselines. Released the Faspect toolkit.

• Maruna Bot: An extensible retrieval-focused framework for task-oriented dialogues

  A retrieval-focused Task-Oriented Dialogue System for cooking and DIY tasks with speech and multimodal interfaces. Built for the Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge 2021.

• Drink bleach or do what now? Covid-HeRA | ICWSM'22

  A dataset for assessing the severity of COVID-19 misinformation on social media and detecting high-risk fake news and refuted claims.

• Senior Thesis: Deep Patient for Summarizing Health Records

  EHR embeddings via stacked denoising autoencoders, outperforming raw-data and other dimensionality-reduction baselines.