Bio
Damien Lefortier is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer and Tech Lead in the Prediction Machine Learning team at Criteo where he has been actively involved in the development of Criteo’s large scale distributed machine learning library as well as in improving Criteo’s predictive algorithms for ad targeting. Before Criteo, Damien worked 3 years in the Search team at Yandex where he focused both on search quality and on infrastructure. At the same time, he started his PhD in information retrieval at the University of Amsterdam. His research work has been published at top tier conferences, such as WWW and CIKM.