Department of  Computing

Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

11 November
1.00pm, Huxley 308 Huxley
 
company: The Hut Group

Title: Can you trust your neighbours?
Abstract:

How do you help your customers find products that they want to buy? How do you build a search engine that handles several thousand queries per minute, in multiple languages, over a heavily diversified product set that includes DVDs, dietary supplements, clothing, makeup and more? This talk covers the real-world challenges we faced in building such a search engine and how we solved them with insights from software engineering, information retrieval and natural language processing.

Speaker Details: Dhruv Kumar and Shaun Hall
 

Dhruv Kumar joined THG in Jan 2014 and has worked on the in-house search system since then. Before joining THG, he has worked for HP Autonomy as a software developer and as a researcher assistant at the Computer Vision Group of the University of Reading. Dhruv holds an MPhil in Computer Science from Cambridge and a BEng from the University of Reading.

Shaun Hall joined THG's Growth & Innovation team in July 2013 and has spent most of his time working on our search and browse algorithms. Prior to this, he worked on an algorithmic trading platform at an Investment Bank. Shaun graduated with a first class degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in 2011.

About THG

The Hut Group is the #1 online destination for health & beauty and one of the World's fastest growing online retailers. We architect, build and run our own bespoke software systems and our proprietary technology platform serves over 300 million shoppers globally across our websites such as Lookfantastic, Myprotein, Myvitamins and Preloved.

The Group's growth and innovation function employs the best computer scientists across the World with recent graduates from the University of Cambridge working across industry leading machine learning problems in (amongst others) product recommendations, search, browse and discovery.


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