Data Science @ Regensburg goes Berlin: iSchool Special

As part of the Industry Partnership activities within the European / African iSchools Region (https://www.ischools.org/industry-partnerships) we are very pleased to announce the first iSchool Meetup to take place in Berlin on 12 April.

The first confirmed speaker is Alexander Buchholz, Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon.

Abstract

Amazon Music ranks millions of items to personalize its customer experience. In this talk we will provide a perspective on the scientific questions that we encounter for training and evaluating learning-to-rank models. We will touch upon topics like unbiased off-policy learning and evaluation, data collection and model deployment from an industry point of view. We will highlight our latest contributions and discuss the challenges that we face on a daily basis.

Short Bio

Alexander Buchholz is a senior applied scientist at Amazon Music in Berlin. Prior to joining Amazon Music he was a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, UK. He received his PhD in computational statistics…