Bio
Khushhall Chandra Mahajan is a Machine Learning Engineer and Researcher working in recommendation systems. Currently, he works in the Video Recommendations team at Meta and is responsible for developing cutting-edge ML algorithms. These algorithms directly enhance the accuracy and impact of video recommendations used by billions of users worldwide. His work powers the recommendation engine for Facebook Watch and Reels, reaching over 1.25 billion users monthly. Prior to this role, he was in the Ads team, developing innovative Ads solutions that drove top-line revenue for the company. He has published several research papers in the domain of machine learning and recommendation systems. His research interest focuses on exploration & diversity in recommendation system and realtime ranking. Additionally he has served on the program committee of various top-tier international machine learning conferences such as NeurIPS, ECIR, AISTATS, etc and organizer of the key workshop in RecSys conference. Moreover, he has mentored multiple ML engineers, data scientists and early-stage companies in advisory role. As a fun fact, he has worked on an innovative Android keyboard which has been downloaded over a million times.