Presented By
O’Reilly + Intel AI
Put AI to Work
April 15-18, 2019
New York, NY
Discover opportunities for applied AI
Organizations that successfully apply AI innovate and compete more effectively. How is AI transforming your business?
Be a part of the program—apply to speak by October 16.
Leah McGuire

Leah McGuire
Lead Member of the Technical Staff, Salesforce

Leah McGuire is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce Einstein, building platforms to enable the integration of machine learning into Salesforce products. Before joining Salesforce, Leah was a Senior Data Scientist on the data products team at LinkedIn working on personalization, entity resolution, and relevance for a variety of LinkedIn data products. She completed a PhD and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco, and at University of California, Berkeley, where she studied the neural encoding and integration of sensory signals.

Sessions

1:50pm–2:30pm Thursday, April 18, 2019
How to train your model (and catch label leakage)
Case Studies, Machine Learning
 Location: Sutton South
Till Bergmann (Salesforce), Leah McGuire (Salesforce)
A problem in predictive modeling data is label leakage. At Enterprise companies such as Salesforce, this problem takes on monstrous proportions as the data is populated by diverse business processes, making it hard to distinguish cause from effect. We will describe how we tackled this problem at Salesforce, where we need to churn out thousands of customer-specific models for any given use case. Read more.