Xavier Amatriain

Xavier Amatriain is the VP of Engineering for Product AI Strategy at LinkedIn. He previously worked as the Co-Founder and CTO at Curai, stealth AI for Healthcare startup. Previously he was VP of Engineering at Quora. With over 50 publications in different fields, Xavier is best known for his work on Machine Learning in general, and Recommender Systems in particular. Before Quora, he was Research/Engineering Director at Netflix, where he lead the team building the famous Netflix Recommendation algorithms. Previously, Xavier was also Research Scientist at Telefonica Research and Research Director at UCSB. He has also lectured at different universities both in the US and Spain and is frequently invited as a speaker at conferences and companies.