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
Information TechnologyView LinkedIn profile

Experience

  1. Machine Learning Engineer

    Yelp

    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)

Find verified contacts for anyone on LinkedIn

Unifers gives sales teams verified emails and direct dials, enriched profiles, and outreach that lands in the inbox.

Free plan included · No credit card required

This profile is compiled from publicly available professional sources. Unifers is not affiliated with or endorsed by LinkedIn. Request removal of this profile.

Ali Rokni — Machine Learning Engineer at Yelp in San Francisco, CA, US | Unifers