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

Li Fan
Senior Vice President, Engineering, Pinterest

@PinterestEng

Li Fan is the senior vice president of engineering at Pinterest, where she leads the company’s technical direction and oversees a team of 400+ engineers building a visual discovery engine. Previously, Li was the senior director of engineering at Google, where she led image search; vice president of engineering at Baidu, where she was responsible for product design and development at China’s largest search engine; and a software developer and engineering manager at Cisco and Ingrian Networks. She holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in computer science from Fudan University in Shanghai.

Sessions

9:05am–9:20am Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Merging human and machine learning for everyday solutions
Location: Grand Ballroom 220
Li Fan (Pinterest)
Average rating: ****.
(4.38, 8 ratings)
Li Fan shares insights into how Pinterest improves products based on usage and explains how the company is using AI to predict what’s in an image, what a user wants, and what they’ll want next, answering subjective questions better than machines or humans alone could achieve. Read more.