Hi! I'm Bipin.

Bipin's profile

About Me

Hey! I'm Bipin. I love tinkering with tech to tackle problems that matter. I am especially drawn to solutions that are playful, unexpected, and beautiful.

I've spent my career leading research and engineering teams in Trust & Safety, Payments/Fintech, and Education. I remain endlessly curious about the frontiers of tech like AI, crypto, blockchain, and identity.

Academically, my roots are in Machine Learning. I was part of Stanford's AI Lab, exploring unsupervised learning and its fascinating ties to neuroscience.

Outside of work, I have a soft spot for the fading art of tragedies (think Shakespeare, not software launches). Sadly, they're becoming rare, so if you've got any great recommendations, I'm all ears!

Timeline

2003 - 2009
Led the Yahoo! Image search team to a 11.4% DCG gain, the largest in the history of the product. Ask me what we did — it's a great story!
2009 - 2011
Completed my Masters in Machine Learning at Stanford University's AI lab under Andrew Ng. Please refer to the publications section below.
2011 - 2015
Very early employee at Coursera. Built all of its monetization products including Certifications and Specializations. Coursera grew to 1M users faster than Facebook did.
2015 - present
At Airbnb, I have led teams of 250+ people across Payments, Trust and Safety, Quality, and Financial Proucts. I saw Airbnb start as a small company, go through hyper-growth, and then go public.

Projects & Essays

Resist

Coming soon

Take control of your digital consumption with a digital nutrition label.

Trusting strangers

How can a transportation company own no cars, a vacation rental company own no homes, and a food delivery company own no kitchens? This is the paradox of the sharing economy.

Come back home

Help the world find its missing children. Insert a single line of code into your site's error pages and help visitors find missing people nearby.

Performance promise

Annotate and validate the performance of your Rails actions.

Django API

Specify and validate your Django APIs in a single block of code.

Publications & Patents

  • Identity verification for online education.
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    Patent 8838970, Issued on September 16, 2014.
  • Unsupervised learning models of primary cortical receptive fields and receptive field plasticity.
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    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2011.
  • Autonomous Sign Reading for Semantic Mapping.
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    In IEEE Conference on Robots and Automation (ICRA), 2011.
  • On Random Weights and Unsupervised Feature Learning.
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    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2011.
  • Text Detection and Character Recognition in Scene Images with unsupervised feature learning.
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    (Best student paper award.) In ICDAR, 2011.
  • Modeling cortical representational plasticity with unsupervised feature learning.
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    In Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), 2011.
  • Automatic Product Categorization.
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    Patent 7870039, Issued on January 11, 2011.
  • On Random Weights and Unsupervised Feature Learning.
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    Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop, 2010.
  • Predicting and Ranking Search Query Results.
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    Patent 7831595, Issued on November 9, 2010.
  • System for obtaining of transcripts of non-textual media.
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    Patent 20090106243, Issued on April 23, 2009.
  • Identifying offensive content using user click data.
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    Patent 20080162540, Issued on July 3, 2008.
  • Method for sharing and searching play-lists.
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    Patent 20060195479, Issued on August 31, 2006.
  • User interface for sharing and searching playlists.
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    Patent 20060195480, Issued on August 31, 2006.
  • Method and system for finding related nodes in a social network.
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    Patent 7016307, Issued on Mar 21, 2006.