06/2025 (Upcoming) Keynote talk on “Optimizing The New York Times subscription funnel using real-time causal machine learning” at Machine Learning Week conference in June 2025 (Phoenix, Arizona)
12/2024 Promoted to Lead Data Scientist position at The New York Times: technical and strategic leadership on machine learning solutions for access and messaging systems
03/2024 Invited by Prof. Ananya Sen at Heinz College, CMU to give guest lectures in his courses on A/B testing and Managing Disruptive Technologies
12/2023 INMA ideas blog on ML for the NYT paywall was featured as one of the top 3 stories of 2023 out of 841 blogs
11/2023 Published an INMA ideas blog (featured on the INMA homepage for a day)
06/2023 Coverage of my talk at the INMA Smart Data workshop was published
05/2023 NYT smart paywall project awarded second prize in the “Best Initiative to Acquire Subscribers” category at the INMA Global Media Awards
05/2023 Invited to speak in the Smart Data Workshop at the INMA World Congress of News Media
04/2023 Invited by Prof. Ananya Sen to deliver a guest lecture about my NYT work in the Managing Disruptive Technologies course at Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
03/2023 Promoted to Senior Data Scientist at The New York Times
02/2023 Core part of my Ph.D. work on learning active hydrodynamic equations got published in PNAS
01/2023 Earlier VetureBeat story featured as one of the top 13 AI stories in 2022 (see #6)
11/2022 Spoke at PyData NYC on Causal machine learning for a smart paywall at The New York Times
08/2022 Interviewed by Sharon Goldman for her VentureBeat article on building ML-powered NYT paywall
08/2022 The Audiencers published an analysis of my blog post on the NYT paywall algorithm
08/2022 Published a technical NYT open blog about Machine Learning for the NYT paywall
05/2022 Invited to speak in the Analytics Seminar Series at the MIT Sloan School of Management on Data science and algorithmic targeting at The New York Times
09/2021 Started working as a Full-Stack Data Scientist at NYTimes
06/2021 Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis at MIT