Empirical Inference IS Colloquium Biography
11 August 2014 at 11:15 - 12:30 | Max Planck Haus Lecture Hall

Examples of Machine Learning and Data Science at Facebook

Facebook serves close to a billion people every day, who are only able to consume a small subset of the information available to them. In this talk I will give some examples of how machine learning is used to personalize people’s Facebook experience. I will also present some data science experiments with fairly counter-intuitive results.

Speaker Biography

Joaquin Quiñonero Candela (Facebook)

Director of Engineering at Facebook

Joaquin Quiñonero Candela is a Director of Engineering at Facebook, where he manages the Advertising Optimization organization. In the past he was a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge UK, a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen and at the Fraunhofer Society in Berlin. Joaquin lives in Palo Alto, California, with his wife and three children. He is an avid paella cook and an obsessive long distance runner.