[Intelligence Seminar] Sept. 20, 3:30pm:, Presentation by Daniel Tunkelang

Dana Houston dhouston at cs.cmu.edu
Tue Sep 20 09:20:46 EDT 2011




>
> INTELLIGENCE SEMINAR
> SEPTEMBER 20 AT 3:30PM, IN GHC 4303
>
> SPEAKER: DANIEL TUNKELANG (LinkedIn)
> Host: Eugene Fink
> For meetings, contact Dana Houston (dhouston at cs.cmu.edu)
>
> KEEPING IT PROFESSIONAL:
> RELEVANCE, RECOMMENDATIONS, AND REPUTATION AT LINKEDIN
>
> LinkedIn operates the world's largest professional network on the
> Internet with more than 120 million members in over 200 countries. In
> order to connect its users to the people, opportunities, and content
> that best advance their careers, LinkedIn has developed a variety of
> algorithms that surface relevant content, offer personalized
> recommendations, and establish topic-sensitive reputation -- all at a
> massive scale. In this talk, I will discuss some of the most
> challenging technical problems we face at LinkedIn, and the approaches
> we are taking to address them.
>
> BIO
>
> Daniel Tunkelang oversees the data science team at LinkedIn, which
> analyzes terabytes of data to produce products and insights that serve
> LinkedIn's members. Prior to LinkedIn, Daniel led a local search
> quality team at Google. Daniel was a founding employee and Chief
> Scientist of Endeca, a leader in enterprise search and business
> intelligence that pioneered the use of guided navigation in search
> applications. He has authored eight patents, written a textbook on
> faceted search, created the annual workshop on human-computer
> interaction and information retrieval (HCIR), and participated in the
> premier research conferences on information retrieval, knowledge
> management, databases, and data mining (SIGIR, CIKM, SIGMOD, SIAM Data
> Mining). Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from CMU, as well as
> B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT.
>
>

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Dana M. Houston
Language Technologies Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
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