AI At The Forefront Of Media And Entertainment

Malav Shah is a Data Scientist II at DIRECTV. He joins DIRECTV from AT&T, where he worked on multiple consumer businesses – including broadband, wireless, and video – and deployed machine learning (ML) models across a wide array of use cases spanning the full customer lifecycle from acquisition to retention. Malav holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech, a degree he puts to good use every day at DIRECTV by applying modern ML techniques to help the company deliver innovative entertainment experiences. Can you outline your career journey and why you first got into machine learning? It has been an interesting journey.