Pratyush Kar

Pratyush Kar is a Software Engineer at Google, focusing on YouTube Search, with prior experience as a Machine Learning Engineer at Quora, where machine learning techniques were applied on the Ranking and Personalization Team. Pratyush held internships at Qualcomm, where a Python parser and C++ command sequencer were implemented, and at NVIDIA, where the YOLOv3 object detection pipeline was developed in TensorRT, achieving significant performance improvements. Additionally, Pratyush served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at The University of Texas at Austin for data mining and analytics courses. Pratyush holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Master of Science in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin, achieving high academic distinctions.