Shivani Rao - Employing Machine Learning in Addition to Job Seekers
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
While it may not be immediately obvious, LinkedIn is one of the pioneers of machine learning. How so? Shivani Rao, applied researcher for the machine learning and relevance group at LinkedIn explains: "Every single product, every single feature, every single decision that's made involves data...and the AI algorithms have centered around personalized recommendations that are relevant to you based on your skills and activity on LinkedIn. Personalization is the key...and it requires data."
Among other topics, Rao discusses exactly how users receive a personalized experience via recommendations, the challenges encountered by LinkedIn and the ways they are being addressed, the tools that allow users to automatically send updates to recruiters, and the LinkedIn learning product which allows users to choose the skills they want to follow, ranging from management and leadership to C++ usability.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies hoists to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | My guest today is Shivani Rao. |
| 0:31.8 | She's an applied researcher and the |
| 0:34.0 | machine learning and learning relevance group at LinkedIn. So Shivani how you doing |
| 0:37.9 | today? I'm doing well, thank you. |
| 0:39.9 | Tell me I don't know that I guess all the big companies are doing AI so you |
| 0:44.6 | know LinkedIn how is LinkedIn using AI what kind of projects are you working on there? |
| 0:50.0 | LinkedIn has been I think one of the pioneers of AI and machine learning ever since |
| 0:55.3 | you know the early days of LinkedIn. It's one of the truest data-driven companies |
| 1:00.9 | that I have ever worked with or worked in. It's because every single |
| 1:07.7 | product, every single feature, every single decision that's made involves data. And when you have a large amount of data, when you have |
| 1:16.0 | a good infrastructure, then you have all the data that you can use to play around with the data, come up with models. |
| 1:24.0 | Lingen has always prided in being the pioneer even in the data pipelines |
| 1:29.0 | that they have built to support all the machine learning |
| 1:32.0 | and AI algorithms that they, you AI algorithms that they use for their site for recommendations. |
| 1:37.0 | So primarily the AI algorithms have centered around recommendations. |
| 1:41.0 | So if you land on a job site in LinkedIn you get recommendations of jobs that are relevant to you based on your skills and your activity on LinkedIn. |
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