Editor’s note: The use of AI in LinkedIn products has been the subject of multiple press articles and research papers (some highlighted on this blog). With the release of a new LinkedIn Learning course about AI at LinkedIn, we asked our Head of AI, Deepak Agarwal, for a brief overview of what AI is and how it works, geared towards people who are interested in...

Posts by Deepak Agarwal
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Announcing the Economic Graph Research Program
Deepak Agarwal March 15, 2017
Roughly two years ago, we launched an ambitious project called the Economic Graph Challenge (EGC). The idea was simple: There are approximately 3 billion people in the global workforce, and LinkedIn's vision is to create economic opportunity for every one of them. By mapping economic relationships, developing the world's first Economic Graph, we can make that...
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- Economic Graph Research,
- economic graph
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Research for Economic Impact: Meeting the Winners of the LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge
Deepak Agarwal June 30, 2015
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting the 11 teams who are conducting research as part of the LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge. These teams are working with us to leverage the LinkedIn Economic Graph in order to uncover insights that will lead to creating economic opportunity. For the data-obsessed among us, this is an especially intriguing endeavor....
- Topics:
- LinkedIn,
- Economic Graph Research,
- economic graph
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Scaling Machine Learning talk at AISTATS
Deepak Agarwal May 11, 2015
LinkedIn's engineering teams build state of the art systems and algorithms to connect the world's professionals to make them more...
- Topics:
- machine learning,
- infrastructure,
- Algorithms
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Enter the LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge
Deepak Agarwal November 14, 2014
If you had the right data, what could you do to create economic opportunity for every professional in the world? Since we announced...
- Topics:
- Data
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Open Sourcing ml-ease
Deepak Agarwal September 25, 2014
Co-author: Bee-chung Chen,Bo Long, Liang Zhang LinkedIn data science and engineering is happy to release the first version of ml-ease,...