About Me

I have fifteen years of experience in the field of Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence. It has been an exciting journey being engaged in this space - as a practitioner, an educator, a researcher, and sometimes simply as an observer.

And with two little kids, it has been a lot of fun being plugged in to the developmental journeys of both forms of intelligence - natural and artificial.

Work

I am currently an Engineering Manager at Yelp leading a group focused on applying ML to solve problems for businesses of all sizes.

Check out the Yelp blog and the Yelp Engineering blog.

Previously, I have worked with the Azure Engineering and Data Science groups at Microsoft Redmond, and also worked in the AI/ML space in banking and retail.

Research

I serve as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and I have been supervising MScAC student projects in the area of AI in Healthcare in collaboration with hospitals in Toronto.

More details and project abstracts are here.

My PhD work at Syracuse University was at the intersection of Evolutionary Computation and Network Science advised by Profs. Chilukuri Mohan and Kishan Mehrotra.

I have also worked and published in the areas of Time-Series Forecasting and Computer Science Education.

A list of all publications is here.

Teaching

I teach courses on AI/ML at York University and the University of Toronto. I am currently teaching...

Contact Me

Please use my work or school email if you already have it. Else: kk @ < this domain >