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 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 PC member on the Mining of Software Repositories (MSR) Conference, DS Track.
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