Mumbai: Internet commerce platform Meesho has onboarded Debdoot Mukherjee as chief data scientist to oversee the company’s efforts to make its e-commerce marketplace smarter and more efficient with the use of AI. 

In this role, Mukherjee will lead the current 30-member-strong AI team at Meesho and strengthen it by three times by the end of the year, the company said on Wednesday.

Mukherjee joins Meesho with over 14 years of experience in developing large scale recommender systems as the lead at companies like ShareChat, Hike and Myntra. Under his expertise, the team at ShareChat and Moj created a state-of-the-art feed ranking system and developed AI models that significantly improved user retention and engagement. He is a double gold medalist from IIT Delhi.

“I am delighted to welcome Debdoot as the head of Meesho’s highly energetic AI team. His leadership and deep understanding of the field will help us meet the growing demands of our users, drive innovation and accelerate our sellers’ success,” said Meesho founder and CTO Sanjeev Barnwal.

“I join Meesho feeling deeply connected with their mission of democratising internet commerce for everyone in India. AI can play a central role in creating an efficient and healthy marketplace, which is trusted and loved by the customers and also ensures fairness and growth to all the sellers,” commented Debdoot Mukherjee. “I believe my past experiences will further help in building a world class AI team and machinery to deliver on Meesho’s bold ambition of building a single shopping destination for the next billion users in India.”

With this latest addition, Meesho has further strengthened its leadership team. The company recently announced senior appointments across key verticals including monetisation CXO Harsh Chaudhary; fulfillment & experience head Sourabh Pandey, and seller growth head LN Swaminathan.