Welcome to Shivani Rao's webpage

I am a Senior Applied Researcher working in the Learning Relevance group at LinkedIn. I have accrued research experience in Industry and academia in areas of Machine Learning, Data Mining and Computer Vision. Outside of R&D work, I love engaging with the larger technical community, via writing and speaking and serving on the organizing committee of workshops and conferences. I have published and helped organize various academic and industry conferences including KDD, NIPS and GHC. I am also passionate about mentoring and supporting women in tech via outreach events with organizations like Hackbright Academy, Technovation. Follow me on Twitter at @shivanigrao

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Whats new with me?
Aug 1, 2018: My interview with Richard Jacobs of FutureTech Podcast is live
June 13, 2018: I was listed as one of the top 30 women in AI in SF by RE-work. Read the full article here
May 2018: I will be presenting at GHC on Tagging Videos with Skills Under Weak Supervision. Click here for the pdf of the paper
March 2017: I will be a part of "Data Science for Learning" event held at Coursera Sunnyvale. Details TBD.
Jan 2017: I will be speaking at the Women in Machine Intelligence dinner held by RE-WORK in SF on Jan 23, 2017. Learn more about my talk here