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Ankit Vij

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Engineering Lead - Vector Search Databricks

Ankit is a Software Engineer at Databricks with a deep interest in information retrieval and machine learning. He is the founding engineer and TL for the vector search team and has been working in the search domain for over 8 years. Ankit holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bio from: Data + AI Summit 2025

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Beyond Simple RAG: Unlocking Quality, Scale and Cost-Efficient Retrieval With Mosaic AI Vector Search

This session is repeated. Mosaic AI Vector Search is powering high-accuracy retrieval systems in production across a wide range of use cases — including RAG applications, entity resolution, recommendation systems and search. Fully integrated with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, it eliminates pipeline maintenance by automatically syncing data from source to index. Over the past year, customers have asked for greater scale, better quality out-of-the-box and cost-efficient performance. This session delivers on those needs — showcasing best practices for implementing high-quality retrieval systems and revealing major product advancements that improve scalability, efficiency and relevance. What you’ll learn: How to optimize Vector Search with hybrid retrieval and reranking for better out-of-the-box results Best practices for managing vector indexes with minimal operational overhead Real-world examples of how organizations have scaled and improved their search and recommendation systems