---
title: "Devansh Tandon"
category: "people"
role: "Principal Product Manager"
company: "Meta"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/devanshtandon/"
twitter: "https://x.com/devanshtandon_"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Devansh Tandon

## Profile
Principal Product Manager at [[meta|Meta]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/devanshtandon/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/devanshtandon_)

## Biography
Devansh Tandon works on AI Research & Product at [[meta|Meta]], leading AI & recommendations teams. He is a founding member of a new AI research group ([[meta|Meta]] Recommendation Systems Research) to develop LLM foundation models & recommendation systems across [[meta|Meta]]: to power Instagram, Facebook, Ads.

Previously, Devansh led ML/AI teams at Google for 7 years, building the largest ML models across Ads, Search, Discover, YouTube, Gemini. He worked on YouTube's recommendation engine, which drives 70% of video watch time for 2 billion+ daily active users. At DeepMind, he incubated a new generative recommendation system using Gemini, and published multiple research papers.

Devansh graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University, with a BS in Computer Science and Economics.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-devansh-tandon-tokens-in-engagement-out-training-llm-recommenders]] — Tokens In, Engagement Out: Training LLM-Recommenders (2026-06-29, 10:45am-11:05am)
- [[2026-06-29-devansh-tandon-open-q-and-a-llm-recsys]] — Open Q&A: LLM Recsys (2026-06-29, 12:05pm-12:25pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-devansh-tandon-tokens-in-engagement-out-training-llm-recommenders|Tokens In, Engagement Out: Training LLM-Recommenders]]
- [[2026-06-29-devansh-tandon-open-q-and-a-llm-recsys|Open Q&A: LLM Recsys]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo` — 3 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo`: youtube, home, shorts, search, ranking, experiments, base, gemini.
- Evidence links for `youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo`: [[youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo]], [[youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo-slides]], [[youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo-dense-slides]], [[youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo-reconstructed-slides]]