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Make Data Work
March 25-28, 2019
San Francisco, CA
Gungor Polatkan

Gungor Polatkan
Senior Engineering Manager, LinkedIn

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Gungor Polatkan is a machine learning expert and engineering leader with experience in building massive-scale distributed data pipelines serving personalized content at LinkedIn and Twitter. Most recently, he led the design and implementation of the AI backend for LinkedIn Learning and ramped up the recommendation engine from scratch to hyperpersonalized models learning billions of coefficients for 500M+ users. He deployed some of the first deep ranking models for search verticals at LinkedIn improving talent search. He enjoys leading teams, mentoring engineers, and fostering a culture of technical rigor and craftsmanship while iterating fast. Previously, he worked in several notable applied research groups at Twitter, Princeton, Google, MERL, and UC Berkeley. He has published and refereed papers at top-tier ML and AI venues, such as UAI, ICML, and PAMI.

Sessions

4:20pm5:00pm Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Gungor Polatkan (LinkedIn)
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Talent search systems at LinkedIn strive to match the potential candidates to the hiring needs of a recruiter expressed in terms of a search query. Gungor Polatkan shares the results of the company's deployment of deep learning models on a real-world production system serving 500M+ users through LinkedIn Recruiter. Read more.