Parag Agrawal
Parag Agrawal
Parag Agrawal is an Indian software engineer. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Twitter.[2] [7] [1]
Early Life & Education
Parag Agrawal attended the Atomic Energy Central School. He later graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering.[1]
Subsequently, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Stanford University. While studying at Stanford, he worked as a research intern for Microsoft, Yahoo!, and AT&T Labs.[1]
Career
As a student, Agrawal worked in the research departments of Microsoft, Yahoo!, and AT&T Labs. [1] After graduating from Stanford, Parag Agrawal joined Twitter as an ads engineer. He served in that position from October 2011 to October 2017.[1]
On March 8, 2018, it was publicly announced that Twitter promoted Agrawal to CTO; he succeeded Adam Messinger, who left the company in December 2016.[4] His appointment was announced internally in October 2017.[3] His early work as CTO was dedicated to increasing the relevance of tweets in Twitter timelines through the use of artificial intelligence. A Twitter spokesperson told CNBC: [3]
"In his capacity as CTO, he’s focused on scaling a cohesive machine learning and AI approach across our consumer and revenue product and infrastructure teams
Patents
Filing Date | Patent | Publication Number | Publication Date |
|---|---|---|---|
April 2, 2007 | system and method for adaptive frequency scaling[20] | 20080028249 | January 31, 2008 |
February 19, 2008 | system and method for asynchronous update of indexes in a distributed database[19] | 20090210429 | August 20, 2009 |
February 25, 2008 | system for query scheduling to maximize work sharing[18] | 20090216718 | August 27, 2009 |
December 21, 2010 | efficient Indexing of error tolerant set containment[17] | 20120158696 | June 21, 2012 |
March 14, 2014 | temporal features in a messaging platform[16] | 9117227 | August 25, 2015 |
August 11, 2017 | aggregate features for machine learning[15] | 20180046918 | February 15, 2018 |
March 14, 2014 | pre-filtering in a messaging platform[14] | 10248667 | April 2, 2019 |