{"id":306,"date":"2026-01-13T04:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:36:25","slug":"dr-chirag-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/dr-chirag-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Chirag Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dr.chirag-shah.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307\" style=\"width:198px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dr.chirag-shah.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dr.chirag-shah-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dr.chirag-shah-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professor at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle<\/strong>, with research and teaching expertise in artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, and search and recommender systems. A&nbsp;<strong>TEDx Speaker and ACM Distinguished Member.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Research focuses on task-based and conversational search and recommendation, user experience, multi-objective optimization, cold-start challenges, and agentic systems. Actively engaged in generative AI research, particularly in information access and image classification, with a strong emphasis on improving fairness and reducing bias in ML\/AI systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Information Science and Data Science, and collaborates closely with leading industrial research labs as a visiting researcher. Recent industry engagements include&nbsp;<strong>Spotify, Amazon, Microsoft Research AI, Getty Images, and TikTok.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Has worked on real-world problems such as&nbsp;<strong>zero-intent and zero-query recommendations, marketplace fairness, and task-, journey-, and mission-based ranking systems<\/strong>, contributing to solutions and products that impact&nbsp;<strong>hundreds of millions of users across global markets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, with research and teaching expertise in artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, and search and recommender systems. A&nbsp;TEDx Speaker and ACM Distinguished Member. Research focuses on task-based and conversational search and recommendation, user experience, multi-objective optimization, cold-start challenges, and agentic systems. Actively engaged in generative AI research, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meet-the-experts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.whitehalltraining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}