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Description
Ronny Kohavi is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and the General Manager for Microsoft's Analysis and Experimentation team at Microsoft's Applications and Services Group. He was previously Partner Architect at Bing, part of the Online Services Division at Microsoft. He joined Microsoft in 2005 and founded the Experimentation Platform team in 2006. He was previously the director of data mining and personalization at Amazon.com, and the Vice President of Business Intelligence at Blue Martini Software, which went public in 2000, and later acquired by Red Prairie. Prior to joining Blue Martini, Kohavi managed MineSet project, Silicon Graphics' award-winning product for data mining and visualization. He joined Silicon Graphics after getting a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Stanford University, where he led the MLC++ project, the Machine Learning library in C++ used in MineSet and at Blue Martini Software. Kohavi received his BA from the Technion, Israel. He was the General Chair for KDD 2004, co-chair of KDD 99's industrial track with Jim Gray, and co-chair of the KDD Cup 2000 with Carla Brodley. He was an invited speaker at the National Academy of Engineering in 2000, a keynote speaker at PAKDD 2001, an invited speaker at KDD 2001's industrial track, a keynote speaker at EC 10 (2010) and at Recsys 2012. His papers have over 24,000 citations and three of his papers are in the top 1,000 most-cited papers in Computer Science.
Lectures:
lecture![]() as author at Industrial & Government Tracks, 23192 views |
lecture![]() as author at Industry & Government Sessions, 5800 views |
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lecture![]() as author at Sessions, 8707 views |
tutorial![]() as author at Tutorials, together with: Roger Longbotham, 7712 views |
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tutorial![]() as author at KDD 2017 Tutorials, together with: Lukas Vermeer, Paul Raff, Somit Gupta, Pavel Dmitriev, Alex Deng, 1035 views |