Product Leader @ Walmart | AI/ML/NLP | Search | Ecomm
San Francisco, California, United States
Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Formulated a System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment model to simulate capacity drop at freeway bottlenecks.- Co-Author, Paper: "Single Destination System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment Formulation for capacity drop at merges" (Presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012, Theme: Network Modeling)- Co-Author, Paper: "Dynamic Traffic Assignment: An...
Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Formulated a System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment model to simulate capacity drop at freeway bottlenecks.- Co-Author, Paper: "Single Destination System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment Formulation for capacity drop at merges" (Presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012, Theme: Network Modeling)- Co-Author, Paper: "Dynamic Traffic Assignment: An Overview and Potential Applications (Presented at Annual Urban Mobility Conference under the theme: Transportation Simulation / Modeling) From May 2010 to July 2011 (1 year 3 months) Chennai Area, IndiaProject Analyst Intern @ Scott Wilson India Private Ltd. Conducted Traffic surveys including Traffic volume count, Turning movement count and Origin Destination surveys for the Feasibility Studies of the four laning of NH-4 and NH-48 under the National Highway Development Program; Estimated total project revenue for investment planning. From May 2010 to July 2010 (3 months) Bengaluru Area, IndiaLead Product Manager, Search Relevance & Experience @ Walmart Global Tech Leading products for Customer intent understanding, relevance algorithms, results experience- Developed a customer centric measure of success, dubbed “Find It”, to measure different elements of the search experience; Drove 50% of the entire team’s goal for FY20, FY21- Drove transformation to Semantic Search through machine learning and experimentation- Envisioned and launched NextGen search experiences for precise queries, out of stock scenarios and merchandising through recommendationsPromoted in role; 3 direct reports San Francisco Bay AreaGraduate Research Assistant @ Transportation Systems Research, University of Maryland - Developed first-of-its-kind mobile applications and mathematical models that serve as an advanced survey tool to collect data on travel behavior helping find frequent user locations and predict trip purpose of commuters.- Designed and conducted an Online Health and Travel Survey to realize the impact of long-term travel behavior such as commute on the general health and obesity of an individual. From August 2011 to September 2013 (2 years 2 months) College Park, MarylandHead of Product & Engineering, Data Acquisition @ Relcy, Inc. Founding engineer (employee #5) at Relcy, a series A startup funded by Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital to redefine search for mobile. Acqui-hired by Uber and Walmart in 2016. Managed all functions to deliver a fresh, high coverage, high quality catalog. 3 direct reports.- Conceptualized, built and maintained a ~200 million Entity Knowledge Graph- Developed distributed crawler and data transform ETL architecture; Scaled throughput and freshness from conception to fetching 500 million pages per day across 100 websites. From October 2013 to May 2016 (2 years 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineering, Query Understanding @ Walmart Global Tech Core Engineer for Query Understanding, Autocomplete, Spellcheck- Member of ML Engineering team that pioneered a scalable Query Understanding service; Introduced Brand Understanding for 100K+ brand terms across 70% search traffic- Improved Add to Cart rate among customers using Autocomplete in Search by introducing spellcheck and structured query patterns in autocomplete suggestions From August 2016 to January 2018 (1 year 6 months) San Francisco Bay Area
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Undergraduate Research Assistant
May 2010 to July 2011
Chennai Area, India
Scott Wilson India Private Ltd.
Project Analyst Intern
May 2010 to July 2010
Bengaluru Area, India
Walmart Global Tech
Lead Product Manager, Search Relevance & Experience
San Francisco Bay Area
Transportation Systems Research, University of Maryland
Graduate Research Assistant
August 2011 to September 2013
College Park, Maryland
Relcy, Inc.
Head of Product & Engineering, Data Acquisition
October 2013 to May 2016
San Francisco Bay Area
Walmart Global Tech
Software Engineering, Query Understanding
August 2016 to January 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
Formulated a System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment model to simulate capacity drop at freeway bottlenecks.- Co-Author, Paper: "Single Destination System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment Formulation for capacity drop at merges" (Presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012, Theme: Network Modeling)- Co-Author, Paper: "Dynamic Traffic Assignment: An Overview and Potential Applications (Presented at Annual Urban Mobility... Formulated a System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment model to simulate capacity drop at freeway bottlenecks.- Co-Author, Paper: "Single Destination System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment Formulation for capacity drop at merges" (Presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012, Theme: Network Modeling)- Co-Author, Paper: "Dynamic Traffic Assignment: An Overview and Potential Applications (Presented at Annual Urban Mobility Conference under the theme: Transportation Simulation / Modeling)
What company does Sapeksha Vemulapati work for?
Sapeksha Vemulapati works for Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
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Sapeksha Vemulapati is Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Sapeksha Vemulapati works in the Internet industry.
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