Bio
Mihajlo Grbovic holds a Ph.D in Machine Learning from Temple University in Philadelphia. He has more than 10 years of technical experience in applied Machine Learning, acting as a Science Lead in a portfolio of projects at Yahoo and now at Airbnb. During his time at Yahoo, from 2012 to 2016, he worked on integrating Machine Learning in various Yahoo Products, such as Yahoo Mail, Search, Tumblr & Ads. Some of his biggest accomplishments include building Machine Learning-powered Ad Targeting for Tumblr, being one of the key developers of Email Classification for Yahoo Mail and introducing the next generation of query-ad matching algorithms to Yahoo Search Ads. Dr. Grbovic joined Airbnb in 2016 as a Senior Data Scientist, specializing in Machine Learning. He works mostly on Search & Recommendation problems for Airbnb Homes and Experiences. Most recently, he worked on building out a Machine Learning-powered Search for Airbnb Experiences. Dr. Grbovic published more than 50 peer-reviewed publications at top Machine Learning and Web Science Conferences, and co-authored more than 10 patents. He was awarded the Best Paper Award at KDD 2018 Conference. His work was featured in Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, MIT Technology Review, Popular Science and Market Watch.