“Manas has been my true partner-in-crime in Search and Browse team at eBay. He is one of the best applied researchers I have had the privilege to work with. What sets Manas apart from the rest is his uncanny ability to identify product opportunities from patterns in vast amounts of user behavior data. He joined our team as an embedded researcher in the early days of Browse team. Within a short span, Manas created a first of its kind data quantification framework to understand search user behavior. We relied heavily on this framework to set our Browse product strategy on Search pages, especially for problem definitions and solution hypotheses. Manas architected and developed several robust, scalable, and contextual recommendation models for each solution hypothesis, and delivered significant business wins. Additionally, this work has resulted in multiple key innovations and patents for eBay. Manas played a key role at every step of the product life cycle -- product ideation, evangelizing solutions across multiple teams, building and deploying the recommendation systems, and iteratively improving the recommendation algorithms via A/B testing. Manas has brought a change in how eBay's green-field projects mature, and has set a template for a successful full stack data scientist in eBay's product development cycle. Any team would be lucky to have him and I'd love to work with him again!”
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Data-driven co-clustering model of internet usage in large mobile societies
Proceedings of the 13th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
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Mixture models for learning low-dimensional roles in high-dimensional data
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Archived data often describe entities that participate in multiple roles. Each of these roles may influence various aspects of the data. For example, a register transaction collected at a retail store may have been initiated by a person who is a woman, a mother, an avid reader, and an action movie fan. Each of these roles can influence various aspects of the customer's purchase: the fact that the customer is a mother may greatly influence the purchase of a toddler-sized pair of pants, but have…
Archived data often describe entities that participate in multiple roles. Each of these roles may influence various aspects of the data. For example, a register transaction collected at a retail store may have been initiated by a person who is a woman, a mother, an avid reader, and an action movie fan. Each of these roles can influence various aspects of the customer's purchase: the fact that the customer is a mother may greatly influence the purchase of a toddler-sized pair of pants, but have no influence on the purchase of an action-adventure novel. The fact that the customer is an action move fan and an avid reader may influence the purchase of the novel, but will have no effect on the purchase of a shirt.
In this paper, we present a generic, Bayesian framework for capturing exactly this situation. In our framework, it is assumed that multiple roles exist, and each data point corresponds to an entity (such as a retail customer, or an email, or a news article) that selects various roles which compete to influence the various attributes associated with the data point. We develop robust, MCMC algorithms for learning the models under the framework.
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Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)
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