Ali Rokni
AI/ML Technical Leader at Yelp, Search Relevance and Ranking
- Role
- Machine Learning Engineer at Yelp
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Machine Learning Engineer
Aug 2018 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Led Yelp search relevance and ranking vision and roadmap through cross-team collaborations and execution.Leading cross-team initiative for vector/hybrid search utilizing twin BERT and NRT ANN search fill the gap of exact match retrieval AND sharing the relevance measure across teamsBuilding/improving learning-to-rank models for consumer searches. Significantly increased the development velocity and training/serving pipeline reliability by completely. renovating search training infra.Utilizing LLMs to improve query understanding and search relevance.Designing solutions for handling sampling and presentation/position bias when training on user implicit feedback.Design and implementation of feature pipeline for ingesting/utilizing/sharing a bulk of features.
Education
Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Sharif University of Technology
Master of Science (MSc)
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