Yang Li Hector Yee

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Dynamic pricing models @Airbnb

Technology / Software / Internet

Technical leader in the field of machine learning, personalized recommendations and detailed user modeling. Architect of Aerosolve : Machine Learning for Humans Large scale, human interpretable machine learning models used in Airbnb's Price Tips for hosts. http://nerds.airbnb.com/aerosolve/ Wrote a large chunk of the Emmy award winning personalized video recommendation engine at Youtube (http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4578544/youtube-wins-first-emmy-for-video-recommendations-you-cant-resist) and the recommended for you (similar users) part of the Google Play store. Very knowledgeable about Computer vision and large scale machine learning (ranking, classification, supervised, semi-sup...