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Presentation: The Learning Behind Gmail Priority Inbox

Speaker: Andrew Moedinger

The Priority Inbox feature of Gmail ranks mail by the probability that the user will perform an action on that mail. Because “importance” is highly personal, we try to predict it by learning a per-user statistical model, updated as frequently as possible. This talk will describe the challenges of online learning over millions of models, and the solutions adopted.

Andrew Moedinger is a Senior Software Engineer on the Gmail Priority Inbox team in Zürich. Other recent projects at Google include writing the type-based optimizations for the Closure JavaScript Compiler and several web search experiments. Andrew attended Stetson University where he received degrees in Computer Science and Piano Performance. He is also a private pilot and enjoys skiing and horseback riding.