Malini Swaminathan

Staff Data Scientist at Morgan Stanley · Recommendation systems · ranking, PyTorch

Morgan Stanley

Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

9+ years experience

Srishti Manipal Institute

English, Hindi, Telugu

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I've spent 10 years on recommendation systems - first at Groww, now at Morgan Stanley. Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 4.1%. Replaced 81 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Before that: Qualcomm and Groww. Most at home with information retrieval and embeddings.

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Advice on recommendation systems
Working sessions on embeddings

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recommender systemsPyTorchrankingembeddingsinformation retrieval

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Office hours for teams building their first data stack: recommendation systems and information retrieval

Topics: recommendation systems, information retrieval, recommender systems
Format: Calls
Terms: Free for early founders
Capacity: One call a month
Best for: Seed to Series A teams

10 years of recommendation systems. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Hyderabad, Indiapytorchrecommender systemsinformation retrieval

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Experience

Staff Data Scientist
Dec 2022 - Present
Morgan Stanley · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Taught SQL to 75 non-analysts.
- Built the recommendations models now used in 11 product decisions a quarter.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Data Scientist
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
Qualcomm · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
- Replaced 87 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
Data Analyst
May 2017 - Apr 2019
Groww · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.

Projects

Recommendation systems benchmark

2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing ranking and PyTorch on real workloads.

Write-up: recommendation systems in practice

2024

A long-form guide to recommendation systems for people starting out.

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Education

Srishti Manipal Institute
B.Des, Statistics
2012 - 2016

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