Speaker:Dr. Rajesh Parekh

Our distinguished Alumni Dr. Rajesh Parekh will meet with the graduate students and participate in a Q&A session. 

Dr. Rajesh Parekh is Engineering Director at Google, where he leads a talented team focusing on algorithmic data curation for Google's Geo products. His team applies various Machine Learning and Computer Vision techniques to build trustworthy and useful understanding of the real world. He is passionate about solving challenging problems that deliver tremendous user impact.

Prior to Google, Dr. Parekh led analytics for Facebook's Video and Applied Machine Learning initiatives. Before Facebook, Dr. Parekh was the Vice President of Data Science at Groupon where he built products for personalization, sales automation, and marketing optimization. He also worked at Yahoo Labs building display advertising targeting products, at Blue Martini Software developing data mining products for e-commerce, and at Allstate solving insurance problems like cross-sell, retention, and fraud.

Dr. Parekh earned his B.E. in Computer Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science focusing on Artificial Intelligence from Iowa State University. He has published over 30 research papers and multiple international patents. He actively participates in the machine learning and data science community.