Industry Panel
June 17 - 5.50pm - Room 121 - First Floor
GenAI for user modelling:
from theory to practice
The panel brings together practitioners from different industry verticals and company sizes, from growing startups to public companies with tens of millions of users. Leveraging everyone’s experience and perspective, we will assess how large language models are transforming personalization and user modelling: how much of the old world is relevant? What exciting new developments were previously thought to be impossible? The panel (the first-ever industry panel at UMAP) will also give us a chance to reflect on the interplay between academic research and production systems, and what each can learn from the other.
Bio: serial entrepreneur, researcher and professor of MLSys at NYU, Jacopo was CTO and co-founder of Tooso, an AI-for-Ecommerce startup in San Francisco acquired by TSX:CVO in 2019. Jacopo has published in all major IR, NLP, and ML conferences, as well as being an invited speaker at RecSys and KDD.
Bio: creator of PyTorchVideo, now founder and CEO of Shaped, a NYC based startup specialized in recommendation and personalization as a service. Shaped is part of the new wave of companies built in the cloud-AI-native era, able to leverage purpose-built tooling and the latest algorithmic advancements much faster than legacy players. Tullie represents a B2B, horizontal scaling POV, from the privileged position of a fast growing startup series A.
Bio: was the CTO of GrubHub and indigo, now CTO of Daydream, a startup specializing in personalized Fashion discovery. Maria represents a typical B2C POV, from the privileged position of a large marketplace in her previous role, and now in a vertical where user personalization is crucial.
Bio: is the Head of AI at Duolingo. He works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. His research has been published in venues including ACL, PNAS, NAACL, Psychological Science, EDM, CogSci, and Cognition, and covered in the Financial Times, BBC, and Forbes. Klinton will provide a novel POV on personalization as a key to user engagement and better learning outcomes, as a complement to the traditional focus on improving conversion and loyalty.