Title: AI that create professional opportunities at scale
Abstract
Professional opportunities can manifest itself in several ways like finding a new job, enhancing or learning a new skill through an online course, connecting with someone who can help with new professional opportunities in the future, finding insights about a lead to close a deal, sourcing the best candidate for a job opening, consuming the best professional news to stay informed, and many others. LinkedIn is the largest online professional social network that connects talent with opportunity at scale by leveraging and developing novel AI methods. In this talk, I will provide an overview of how AI is used across LinkedIn and the challenges thereof. The talk would mostly emphasize the principles required to bridge the gap between theory and practice of AI, with copious illustrations from the real world. I will talk about how statistical modeling plays a crucial role with methods like generalized mixed effects models, hierarchical modeling, experimental design and sequential analysis.
Bio
Deepak Agarwal is a vice president of engineering at LinkedIn where he is responsible for all AI efforts across the company. He is well known for his work on recommender systems and has published a book on the topic. He has published extensively in top-tier computer science conferences and has coauthored several patents. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has served on the Executive Committee of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). Deepak regularly serves on program committees of various conferences in the field of AI and computer science. He is also an associate editor of two flagship statistics journals