Karuna Ahuja

Karuna Ahuja is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Instacart, focusing on sponsored search and session recommendations since December 2021. Prior experience includes roles at Uber, contributing to driver pricing, incentives, and marketplace forecasting, and at SRI International, where Karuna worked on multimodal distance metric learning and temporal machine learning for various applications. Karuna's background also features positions as a Graduate Research Assistant and Product Manager at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as significant engineering contributions at GE Healthcare and Cypress Semiconductor. Karuna holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Master of Science in Engineering in CIS (Embedded Systems) from the University of Pennsylvania.