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Make Data Work
March 5–6, 2018: Training
March 6–8, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA
Alex Deng

Alex Deng
Principal Data Scientist Manager, Microsoft

Alex Deng is a principal data scientist manager on Microsoft’s analysis and experimentation team, where he and his team work on methodological improvements of the experimentation platform as well as related engineering challenges. Alex has published his work in conference proceedings like KDD, WWW, WSDM, and other statistical journals. He colectured a tutorial on A/B testing at JSM 2015. Alex holds a PhD in statistics from Stanford University and a BS in mathematics from Zhejiang university.

Sessions

1:30pm5:00pm Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Ronny Kohavi (Microsoft), Alex Deng (Microsoft), Somit Gupta (Microsoft), Paul Raff (Microsoft)
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Controlled experiments such as A/B tests have revolutionized the way software is being developed, allowing real users to objectively evaluate new ideas. Ronny Kohavi, Alex Deng, Somit Gupta, and Paul Raff lead an introduction to A/B testing and share lessons learned from one of the largest A/B testing platforms on the planet, running at Microsoft, which executes over 10K experiments a year. Read more.