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Dr. Priya Narang

Dr. Priya Narang

Senior ML Engineer & Researcher

# Data Scientist Toronto, Canadashe/her

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Applied ML researcher turning messy data into deployed models. I work on recommendation, forecasting, and the unglamorous MLOps that keeps them alive in production. PhD in ML, allergic to hype.

--ml-roles--research-collaboration--technical-advising
$ Read my papers

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My PhD was on sequence models for healthcare time series — which taught me that the model is the easy part. The hard part is the data pipeline, the evaluation that doesn't lie to you, and the deployment that survives contact with reality. I've since built recommendation and forecasting systems serving millions of users, and I've learned to be deeply suspicious of any metric that only improves offline. I publish when the work is genuinely new, and I ship when it genuinely helps.

// mission: Build models that are honest offline and useful online.

const values = ["Rigor", "Reproducibility", "Impact over novelty", "Ethical ML"]

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# Applied ML across recommendation, forecasting, and healthcare — research to production

Senior ML Engineer

2021 – Present

@ Shopify

Lead the recommendation ranking team. New two-tower model lifted conversion 7.2% and GMV measurably.

ML Scientist

2019 – 2021

@ Layer6 AI

Built demand-forecasting systems for retail clients; reduced forecast error (sMAPE) by 18%.

Research Intern

2018

@ Vector Institute

Sequence modelling for clinical time series.

edu: PhD, Machine Learning @ University of Toronto (2019)

edu: B.Tech, Computer Science @ IIT Delhi (2014)

PyTorchPythonRecommendation SystemsForecastingMLOpsSparkFeature StoresA/B TestingCausal Inference
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> Priya's instinct for what will actually move the metric — not just the loss curve — is unmatched. The ranking win was one of the biggest of the year.

— James Liu, Staff ML, Shopify

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  • ✓ 3 papers at NeurIPS / ICML workshops
  • ✓ Reviewer, NeurIPS & ICLR
  • ✓ 1.8k⭐ on forecast-kit
  • ✓ Patent: adaptive ranking (pending)

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