Ashish Bansal

Ashish is the Director of Recommendations at Twitch where he works on building scalable recommendation systems across a variety of product surfaces, connecting content to people. He has worked on recommendation systems at multiple organizations, most notably Twitter where he led Trends and Events recommendations and at Capital One where he worked on B2B and B2C products. Ashish was also a co-founder of GALE Partners, a full-service digital agency in Toronto, and spent over 9 years at SapientNitro, a leading digital agency.

In many years of work building hybrid recommendation systems balancing collaborative filtering signals with content-based signals, he has spent a lot of time building NLP systems for extracting content signals. In digital marketing, he built systems to analyze coupons, offers, subject lines. He has worked on messages, tweets, news articles amongst other types of textual data and applying cutting-edge NLP techniques.

He has over 20 years of experience with over a decade in building ML and Deep Learning systems. Ashish is a guest lecturer at IIT BHU teaching Applied Deep Learning. He has a Bachelor's in technology from IIT BHU, and an MBA in marketing from Kellogg School of Management.