Huiji Gao

Huiji Gao, Senior Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, shares his passion for building sophisticated NLP tools, like the open-source DeText framework. He discusses how DeText revolutionized LinkedIn’s approach to model training and its broad applications across the company. The conversation highlights the synergy between DeText and LiBERT, optimized for LinkedIn's data. They delve into the challenges of model evaluation, the importance of user interaction in enhancing performance, and techniques for document ranking optimization.