Speaker: Pradeep Muthukrishnan
Head of Growth for New Business Verticals @DoorDash, Previously Founder & CEO @TrustedFor, 15+ Years in Machine Learning
Pradeep is the Head of Growth for New Business Verticals at DoorDash, where he leads end-to-end growth efforts across personalization, targeting, lifecycle marketing, off-platform acquisition, and new product experiences. His work spans emerging categories like grocery, convenience, alcohol and retail. Before DoorDash, Pradeep was the founder and CEO of TrustedFor, a Y Combinator-backed startup that reimagined professional networking through high-fidelity recommendations. A serial builder, he has bootstrapped successful recruiting ventures and launched multiple 0-to-1 products at early-stage startups. Pradeep holds a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Michigan and has spent the last 15 years applying cutting-edge ML research to drive growth across consumer marketplaces.
Session
Dynamic Moments: Weaving LLMs into Deep Personalization at DoorDash
In this talk, we’ll walk through how DoorDash is redefining personalization by tightly integrating cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) with deep learning architectures such as Two-Tower Embeddings (TTE) and Multi-Task Multi-Label (MTML) models.
