About
I am Kamelia Aryafar, Vice President, Head of Data Science, Machine Learning and AI at Overstock.com Inc., an online retailer. I lead the core machine learning, data science, marketing data science and personalization teams focused on building scalable machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning and computer vision tools to curate a personalized experience for Overstock users.
Prior to Overstock I have been a Senior Machine Learning and Data Scientist at Etsy Inc., an e-commerce platform for handmade and vintage goods for more than four years.
Before Etsy, I was doing a Ph.D. in computer science and machine learning, building large-scale classification and information retrieval models.
Recent Talks:
- Open Data Science Conference
- University of Alabama Analytics
- MIT retail analytics conference
- Solr conference
- Salt Lake City Data Science Meetup
- AI World Forum Disrupt: How can your business use AI and what are the best practices? Details
Recent Publications:
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A Multimodal Recommender System for Large-scale Assortment Generation in E-commerce SIGIR ‘18 eCom [pdf]
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Discovering Style Trends through Deep Visually Aware Latent Item Embeddings. CVPR ‘18 Workshops [pdf]
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An Ensemble-based Approach to Click-Through Rate Prediction for Promoted Listings at Etsy. KDD 2017 ADKDD [pdf]
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Images Don’t Lie: Transferring Deep Visual Semantic Features to Large-Scale Multimodal Learning to Rank. KDD 2016 [pdf]