Samir is a Group Product Manager at Google, where he heads up teams responsible for bringing the latest in AI and machine learning to build software that forecasts and helps optimally allocate Search and YouTube video ad budgets. Prior to Google, Samir worked at Microsoft where he led teams to drive fundamental improvements in search technology at Bing — including personalized web ranking, auto-complete, and related searches.

Samir was born in Mumbai, grew up in Canada, and studied Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo before moving to the US — where he now works.