Haixun Wang (original) (raw)
VP Engineering, Algorithms & Distinguished Scientist @ Instacart
I lead the Aglorithms teamthat focuses on using machine learning for e-commerce and fulfillment at Instacart. Previously, I led the Research & Applied Science organization at WeWork, working on NLP, computer vision, robotics, data management, sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, etc. In my previous jobs, I worked on machine learning and text understanding. My team built large-scale NLP pipelines for short text and document understanding, and we developed data-driven semantic networks to enable text understanding.
Experiece
- VP Engineering, Algorithms & Distinguished Scientist, Instacart (present)
- Editor in Chief, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin (present)
- VP Engineering & Distinguished Scientist, WeWork
- Director of Natural Language Processing, Amazon
- Engineering Manager and Research Scientist, Facebook
- Staff Research Scientist, Google Research
- Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Research Staff Member, IBM Research
Honors
- IEEE Fellow, 2017
- Best Paper Award, Short Text Understanding Through Lexical-Semantic Analysis, in the 31st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2015
- ICDM 10 Year Highest Impact Paper Award, Moment: Maintaining closed frequent itemsets over a stream sliding window, in ICDM 2004
- Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award, Inverse Time Dependency in Convex Regularized Learning, in the 9th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2009
- Best Paper Award, Modeling and Querying E-Commerce Data in Hybrid Relational-XML DBMSs, in the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2008
Medium Articles
- Supercharging ML/AI Foundations at Instacart
- The Data Science Behind the Man Who Solved the Market
- The coming disruption to e-commerce search
- An Annotated Reading List of Conversational AI
- Getting NLP Ready for Business
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