AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — unofficial import demo

Bio

Devansh Tandon works on AI Research & Product at Meta, leading AI & recommendations teams. He is a founding member of a new AI research group (Meta Recommendation Systems Research) to develop LLM foundation models & recommendation systems across Meta: to power Instagram, Facebook, Ads. Previously, Devansh led ML/AI teams at Google for 7 years, building the largest ML models across Ads, Search, Discover, YouTube, Gemini. He worked on YouTube's recommendation engine, which drives 70% of video watch time for 2 billion+ daily active users. At DeepMind, he incubated a new generative recommendation system using Gemini, and published multiple research papers. Devansh graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University, with a BS in Computer Science and Economics.

Sessions

• Tokens In, Engagement Out: Training LLM-RecommendersTuesday, June 30 · 10:45 AM – 11:05 AM · Track 7LLM Recsys
• Open Q&A: LLM RecsysTuesday, June 30 · 12:05 PM – 12:25 PM · Track 7LLM Recsys