Lei Yang, Senior Engineering Manager, Quora MLconf NYC

Sharing and Growing the Worlds Knowledge with Machine Learning: At Quora our mission is to share and grow the worlds knowledge. To accomplish this, we need to build a complex ecosystem which requires us to understand and solve a variety of problems like content quality, demand, user engagement, personalization, and author reputation. In this talk, we will go over several exciting challenges of applying machine learning to these problems. We will give examples such as our ranking and recommendation appro