Bio
Somnath Banerjee is the head of shopping discovery at Pinterest. He and the team is responsible for developing the most personalized, visual and inspirational Shopping experience for the users. The team applies cutting edge machine learning and deep learning techniques in recommendation, search and whole page optimization. Previously, Somnath was a director of machine learning and the head of search quality for Walmart.com. Somnath has decades of experience in working on machine learning and leading machine learning teams at various organizations. He holds a PhD in Information Retrieval and has published a number of papers in prestigious conferences like SIGIR, WWW etc. Somnath has been an invited speaker on E-commerce and machine learning at conferences world-wide; IDG at Seoul and AI Summit at San Francisco, Nvidia GTC at San Jose etc.
