Mar 24, SF: Building recommendation systems on web scale

Deepak Agarwal from Yahoo will talk about building recommendation systems on web scale, including statistical models and how these models are applied on a real world problem.

Deepak Agarwal at Eventbrite
Thursday, March 24, 2011 from 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (PT)
San Francisco, CA

Deepak Agarwal is Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo. He developed novel recommender algorithms for Yahoo!'s content optimization engine that led to a 3x improvement in click-rates on the Y! front page and significant improvement on several other Yahoo! properties. Deepak has published several publications including a best-paper award have resulted from the work. Previously he had been instrumental in social network research with ATT and various other statistical problems.

About the talk:

This talk will focus on building recommendation systems on web scale. Deepak will go deep in statistical models and how these models are applied on a real world problem.