Konik Kothari

Konik Kothari is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, specializing in search quality. They previously worked as a Software Engineer on machine learning for ads retrieval at Google. Kothari earned a PhD in Machine Learning and AI from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where they also served as a Graduate Research Assistant, focusing on deep learning algorithms for medical and seismic imaging. Their experience includes internships at Visa Research and NVIDIA, where they developed a travel recommendation system and worked on anomaly detection, respectively. Kothari holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and has contributed to several publications in the field.