Name: Search at LinkedIn
Start: 2014-05-21T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2014-05-21T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Microsoft

Search is an important and integrated part of the overall LinkedIn experience, and it takes many forms - such as Instant, SERP, Recruiter Search, Job Seeker, etc. Search needs to deal with both structured and unstructured content, and be personalized.

In this talk, Sriram will describe Linkedin unified infrastructure to support these different needs, and will provide some insights into our various approaches to search quality.

About Sriram:

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Sriram Sankar is a Principal Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, where he is leading the development of their next-generation search infrastructure and search quality frameworks. Before that, he led Facebook’s search quality efforts for Graph Search, and was a key contributor to Unicorn, the index powering Graph Search. He previously worked at Google on search quality and ads infrastructure and has held technical roles at VMware, WebGain, and Sun. He is the author of JavaCC, one of the leading parser generators for Java. Sriram obtained his PhD from Stanford University, and a BS from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Kumaresh Pattabiraman, Senior Product Manager at LinkedIn will then present for a few minutes at the end about LinkedIn Search from a product perspective:

LinkedIn search is used by a diverse set of professionals for a wide variety of tasks and information needs. The product caters to the recruiter looking to hire talent, the prospective student choosing a school to attend, the job seeker looking for career opportunities in a certain industry, and the information-seeker looking for influencer articles on a certain topic. We will give you an overview of how the search product is designed to support these niche use-cases through personalized experiences, and demo special features that make searching on LinkedIn powerful.

Agenda:

6.00-6.45pm: Registration & Networking

6:45-7.00pm: Introduction

7:00-7:40pm: Presentation by Sriram Sankar

7:40-7:50pm: Demo by Kumaresh Pattabiraman

7:50-8.15pm: Q&A session

8:15-8:17pm: Hip Hop Performance by Ninten-YO

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