Bio
Ehtsham Elahi is a Senior Research Engineer in the Personalization Science and Engineering group at Netflix where his focus is on Personalized video ranking algorithms. His main research area is Probabilistic Graphical Models for modeling rich user behavior and their large scale implementations to use them in Netflix Personalization Algorithms. Prior to Netflix, Ehtsham worked as a Data Scientist at American Express, NYC and Change.org, San Francisco. He attended University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for his graduate studies focussing on machine learning and probabilistic modeling.