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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

* Off-policy Evaluation* Non-uniform Random Exploration and Supervised Learning

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

* Retriever-Generator (RAG) QA Systems* LLM Generative Pre-training* LLM Tuning* ANN Search & Tuning

New York City Metropolitan Area

* Fine-tuned BERT on domain-specific Ranking Task* Billion-scale Cost-efficient BERT Ranking via Amortized Inference: +4% Revenue* E2E Deep Retrieval (candidate-free ranking)

Greater New York City Area

Personalization and Search Research exploring Representation Learning, Factorization, Sequential and Deep Models for Recommendations.* Restaurant Recommender (Factorization-based with side-information)* Menu Item Recommender (Deep Next-Item model w/ contextual-info)* Personalized Search using LTR techniques (Pairwise data, RankNet, Query Expansion)* Contextual Bandits for Marketplace Diversity* Semantic Search using 2-stage IR system* Search Intent Classification… Show more Personalization and Search Research exploring Representation Learning, Factorization, Sequential and Deep Models for Recommendations.* Restaurant Recommender (Factorization-based with side-information)* Menu Item Recommender (Deep Next-Item model w/ contextual-info)* Personalized Search using LTR techniques (Pairwise data, RankNet, Query Expansion)* Contextual Bandits for Marketplace Diversity* Semantic Search using 2-stage IR system* Search Intent Classification using Weak Supervision* Offline AB Testing via Counterfactual EvaluationTalks & Publications* Accepted @ RecSys 2021: Online Learning for Recommendations at Grubhub* Accepted talk at GTC 2021: Counterfactual Learning to Rank in E-commerce* Invited Talk at Tensorflow Ranking Workshop 2020* Accepted Talk at PyData 2019: Latent Food Graph* Feature Blog: Query Expansion using query2vec @ GH* Featured Blog: Weak Supervision @ GH Show less

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Engaged in research and development of computer vision solutions for Hotel Search Products* Hotel ranking algorithm based on image data. 5% CTR increase (CNNs, Siamese Networks)* Image Based Recommender System. 2% CTR increase (Bayesian Personalized Ranking, CNN)

Greater San Diego Area

Lead data initiatives for hedge fund. Lead design, development and deployment Default Forecasting and SEC Filings Search products* Loan default forecasting product (Tree-based)* SEC filing search system (Distributed Computing, Elasticsearch)* Cloud migration: 70% cost savings

Greater San Diego Area

Lead technical efforts for food logistics company. Product launches in San Diego and Denver.* Technology improvements to consistently grow sales by +25% month-to-month from 10/2014.* Migrated to load adaptive servers cut hosting fees by 75%.* Automated daily email system (90% throughput increase).* Automated SMS ordering system (3% conversion increase)* Automation decreased avg. delivery time by ~30 min (more sales/less labor)* Recommender System (5% conversion… Show more Lead technical efforts for food logistics company. Product launches in San Diego and Denver.* Technology improvements to consistently grow sales by +25% month-to-month from 10/2014.* Migrated to load adaptive servers cut hosting fees by 75%.* Automated daily email system (90% throughput increase).* Automated SMS ordering system (3% conversion increase)* Automation decreased avg. delivery time by ~30 min (more sales/less labor)* Recommender System (5% conversion increase, Collaborative Filtering on Implicit Feedback) Show less

Greater San Diego Area

Lead engineering effort to build on-demand real-estate showing platform (“Uber for Real Estate”). Product Development and Engineering. Successfully raised 1M+ seed funding to build product from prototype, to MVP, to production rollout with over 2000 live paying customers.* Developed Real-time evented chat-systemAcquisition in July 2015

Greater San Diego Area

Lead initial product prototype and development. Helped grow MVP to product and 1M+ seed funding and acceptance into evonexus accelerator. Lead small team to scale out platform to $3000+/month sales.* SaaS Churn Modeling* 2014 - Current: Advisory Role

Greater San Diego Area

Tasked with commercializing R&D IP into products* Gimbal - R&D work with proximity beacons (ios/Android) - QC Exit and Acquisition* Connected Home Project - Embedded Programming / Hardware Integration* Augmented Reality & Computer Vision Projects (QCAR/Vuforia)* Tapioca Mobile - Application Level development (Ruby, Rails, TDD, Git)

Greater San Diego Area

Created platform for mobile video distribution. Was acquired by Qualcomm.

Hardware Integration / Software Development: USB interface w/ in-house hardware platform. Real-time 3D modeling w/ DirectX.

QIS/Brew/Tools & Automation TeamDeveloped software w/ small team. Planned and Lead projects related to the Brew Platform.

Developed reporting and analytics software. Developed automated testing application for BREW apps. Was acquired by Intellisync corp, then Nokia.

Master Of Science (Ms), Data Science Engineering

Research in Deep Recommender Systems: Sharknado.eggie5.com

Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering

William E. Jr. Leonhard Endowment Engineering Scholarship Recipient

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Korean Studies