AI at Scale in Rakuten’s Recommendation Systems with Phuc Le
Principal Data Science Engineer Phuc Le from Rakuten will talk about how AI/ML is applied at scale in the e-commerce industry. Phuc will give a general introduction about recommendation systems. He will dive into some modern types of recommendations used in Rakuten Group services. He will close his talk by explaining how multi-task learning with deep learning helps to improve buy-again recommendations.
Rakuten is one of Japan’s top e-commerce companies founded in 1997 and provides 70+ different services with 1.6 billion members across the world. https://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/
Phuc Le is a Principal Data Science Engineer at AI Product Supervisory Department of Rakuten Group Inc. He got his PhD. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 2012 and his thesis was about Quantum Computation. In 2010, he was awarded the Young Researcher Award from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Japan Chapter for his works on extending Image Processing on Quantum Computers. From 2012 to 2015, he worked for NetMile Inc. as a full-stack engineer where he helped to build a whole recommendation system for affiliate advertising from scratch for the company. Since 2015, he has worked on various large-scaled recommendation systems for many services both in Japan and abroad of Rakuten Group Inc. He also has several patents on recommendation system domains. Linkedin: / phuc-le-68b005bb
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