| Title | : | AI at Scale at Facebook |
| Speaker | : | Srinivas Narayanan (Facebook Inc.) |
| Details | : | Wed, 3 Jan, 2018 4:00 PM @ A M Turing Hall |
| Abstract: | : | At Facebook, we are building AI that is centered around people and helps bring the world closer together. Our work in areas like computer vision, natural language understanding, speech and core machine learning help people better understand each other and the world better. In this talk, I will give an overview of how we use AI across the entire family of Facebook experiences including the main Facebook app, Instagram, Messenger and Oculus. I will also share some of the lessons, challenges and opportunities in applying AI at scale from the perspective of building best in class models, tools and infrastructure.
Speaker Bio: Srinivas Narayanan is a Director of Engineering on the Applied Machine Learning group at Facebook where he currently leads the Computer Vision, Natural Language, Speech and Personalization teams. He has led several major engineering efforts at Facebook including creating the Interest Graph, launching the Location product, and leading engineering for Photos where he also helped start Facebook’s efforts in Computer Vision and Deep Learning. Prior to Facebook, he was a founding member of Tavant, an enterprise software and solutions company and before that, was part of the database research group at IBM Almaden Research Center. He has a Masters in CS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and undergraduate degree in CS from IIT, Madras, India. |
