shivani poddar

Shivani Poddar is a Sr. Engineering Lead at Google DeepMind working on Applied Research to Launch Generative AI Products Responsibly at Scale. She is an experienced leader with a track record of growing teams to execute ambitious goals in turbulent environments. Previously she was the Machine Learning Tech Lead for the Meeting Assistant team at Workplace, Facebook, leading the development of conversational AI for making remote collaboration easier for work. Shivani also built and launched the foundational machine learning and AI stack for Facebook Portal, spearheading product and engineering development across social graph technology for ML, deep personalization for a smarter calling experience. Before this, she was funded by the Amazon Alexa Prize, where she and her team built a social chatbot, eventually deployed it to tens of thousands of users through Amazon Alexa. During her time at CMU she also pursued research in the field of Natural Language Generation, Reinforcement Learning for chatbots and multimodal machine learning. Outside of Work, Shivani has emerged as one of the leaders in talking about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Consumers as well as Enterprises. She has been a speaker at numerous conferences over the last few years covering topics such as - Future of Work, Immersive Multimodal Assistants. She has been a founder in the past, wherein she built a context gathering app acquired by Microsoft Hyderabad