About the authors

Wei Di is a data scientist with many years, experience in machine learning and artificial intelligence. She is passionate about creating smart and scalable intelligent solutions that can impact millions of individuals and empower successful businesses. Currently, she works as a staff data scientist at LinkedIn. She was previously associated with the eBay Human Language Technology team and eBay Research Labs. Prior to that, she was with Ancestry.com, working on large-scale data mining in the area of record linkage. She received her PhD from Purdue University in 2011.

I’d like to thank my family for their support of my work. Also, thanks to my two little kids, Ivan and Elena, in their young and curious hearts, I see the pursuit of new challenges every day, which encouraged me to take this opportunity to write this book.

Anurag Bhardwaj currently leads the data science efforts at Wiser Solutions, where he focuses on structuring a large scale e-commerce inventory. He is particularly interested in using machine learning to solve problems in product category classification and product matching, as well as various related problems in e-commerce. Previously, he worked on image understanding at eBay Research Labs. Anurag received his PhD and master's from the State University of New York at Buffalo and holds a BTech in computer engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India.

Jianing Wei is a senior software engineer at Google Research. He works in the area of computer vision and computational imaging. Prior to joining Google in 2013, he worked at Sony US Research Center for 4 years in the field of 3D computer vision and image processing. Jianing obtained his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in 2010.

I would like to thank my co-authors, Wei Di and Anurag Bhardwaj, for their help and collaboration in completing this book. I have learned a lot in this process. I am also really grateful to my family for their support.