Pooja Consul

Background

About Pooja Consul

I have experience working on large scale Distributed Systems and Recommendation Systems. I have worked on developing the infrastructure for candidate generation, retrieval and ranking for recommendation systems, embedding generation and online experimentation. I have also led and contributed on efforts on product ideation, execution and iteration for Long form tweets, home timeline, typeahead queries and user suggestions and topics at Twitter.I have had the opportunity to work at the intersection of machine learning problems during my internships and thesis as well. At Amazon Robotics I worked on root causing the errors made by 3D CNN models for videos, in my thesis at Indian Statistical Institute on Machine Learning's applications in sports and then at AI Labs at American Express on automating their document review process.As a women in STEM I have been part of efforts at both my graduate and undergraduate academic institutions to motivate and support women in STEM. In my undergraduate I was an integral part of a team that organized scholastic aptitude tests in 23 cities in India for female high school students to encourage them to take competitive STEM college admission exams. At Upenn as a member of Advancing Women in Engineering Board Member I organize professional and technical development events for women.Outside of tech I love playing sports and have won at national level and state level in both basketball and chess.