Ganesh Venkataraman

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Head of Relevance - Job Search & Recommendations at LinkedIn

Technology / Software / Internet

I lead a group of talented engineers towards delivering relevant jobs to 400 Million+ LinkedIn members. Our areas of focus include job search and recommendations. Some of the areas we work on include: — Learning to Rank models for for job search — Query understanding and reformulation to aid faster retrieval while maintaining high precision — Developing machine learned recommendation models for job search At LinkedIn, my past work includes: — Moving instant people search to feature based models with significant uptick in CTR — Blending results using improved machine learned models — Improving autocomplete using faster data structures and better ranking algorithms General interests inc...