Welcome to Shivani Rao's webpage

I am a machine learning researcher and a software engineer based in San Francisco and Bay Area. Although my background has been primarily in Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and Text Mining, I am interested in areas of Large Scale Machine Learning, Real-time analytics, Time Series Analysis, Content Understanding, Natural Language Processing, Recommendation Systems, Speech and Vision related data problems, and so on (not an exhaustive list). Apart from Research & Development work that I do, I love writing, teaching, mentoring and giving talks on topics that I am most passionate about.

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Whats new with me?
Oct 2017: I will presenting my work on "Learning to be Relevant" at Grace Hopper (GHC) this year in Orlando, FL.
Aug 2017: I organized and presented at KDD Workshop on Advancing Data with Education.
April 2017: I will be a part of panel on Data Science Innovation in E-Learning . Register here to attend.
Jan 2017: I will be the Co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Track at GHC 2017
Dec 2016: I served as Program Committee member of ICPC 2017.