Bio
Guy Lebanon works on personalizing Netflix’s homepage and optimizing the assets that are used to represent different videos. Before that he lead LinkedIn’s news-feed personalization team and Amazon’s Seattle machine learning team. Prior to that Guy was a tenured professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Guy published several books and over 70 refereed articles in machine learning and data science, and he received a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. He chaired the 2012 ACM CIKM conference and the 2015 AI and Statistics conference and is an action editor of Journal of Machine Learning Research. He received the NSF CAREER Award, the WWW best student paper award, the ICML best paper runner-up award, the Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Award, and is a Siebel Scholar.