Sharath Rao Email Address

Director of Machine Learning, Core Consumer Experiences and Ads

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A data scientist with experience leading challenging data/modeling projects. Worked on machine learning applications on massive data sets across domains including Online groceryOnline advertising - both search and display, Customer segmentation and User behavior modeling Online Experimentation/A-B testing/Bandits, Auctions and Mechanism designRisk management and real-estate analytics In other lives, I was a data scientist at Intent Media@NYC and Research Engineer/Applied Research guy at Yahoo Labs doing Sponsored Search and Web Search. Oh, and also a brief stint as a quant on the CMBS Trading Desk at Morgan Stanley.Specialties: Skills: Large scale machine learning, Statistics/Experiment DesignComputing platforms: Hadoop/Pig, Hadoop Streaming, Spark, Cascalog (Hadoop DSL)Languages at various point: Python, SQL, Shell Scripting, Perl, Matlab/C/ C++ and a sprinkling of clojure, scala and Java8 peer-reviewed papers, 2 patents Prior avatars from academic life: Signal Processing, Speech Enhancement, Speech Translation