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I am an Applied Researcher working in the AI 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?
April 2020: I will be serving as the Co-chair of the GHC Data Science Track for GHC 2020
Sept 26, 2019: I will be presenting our work on Modeling and Prediction for Online Education at the Bay Area Learning Design & Technology Meet Up hosted at LinkedIn
Aug 16, 2019: I will be presenting our work on "Learning to be Relevant",  Evolution of a Course Recommendation System" at CIKM 2019, Beijing, China pdf
Aug 2, 2019:  I will be doing a live chat with PowerToFly about "What is Data Science and how to break into the industry". ​
March 2, 2019: I will be presenting at Baylan 2019 on AI for online education.
Oct 12, 2018: I will be speaking at University of SF, Data Science MeetUp on "Machine Learning in Practice"
Oct 8, 2018: I will be serving as  dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3357384.3357817dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3357384.3357817PC member on the Mining of Software Repositories (MSR) Conference, DS Track. 
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