Nirmal Jayaram

Nirmal Jayaram is a seasoned engineering leader and Senior Director of Engineering at Google since October 2012, overseeing teams in the Apps, Video & Display, and YouTube Ads product areas. Nirmal is instrumental in optimizing a multi-billion dollar advertising marketplace by focusing on advertiser goals and ecosystem health, managing a team of approximately 150 engineers and data scientists. Prior to Google, Nirmal worked as a Lead Modeler at RMS, developing core statistical models for loss assessment, and interned at AIR Worldwide as a Research Engineer. Nirmal holds a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering and a Master’s in Statistics from Stanford University, where Nirmal's dissertation focused on seismic risk assessment. Nirmal also received a dual degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.