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?
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
Jan 2017: I will be serving this year as the co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Track at GHC 2018. See you in Houston!
Dec 2017: I will be presenting my work on "Video to Skill Tagging using Transcripts under Weak Supervision" at NIPS workshop on Learning with Limited Labeled Data. Click here for the pdf of the paper