Xavier Amatriain, PhD
Xavier Amatriain was most recently VP of AI Product Strategy at LinkedIn, where he led company-wide generative AI efforts all the way from platform and infrastructure to product features. He is also a board member of Curai Health, a healthcare/AI start-up that he cofounded and was CTO of until 2022. Prior to this, he led engineering at Quora and was Research/Engineering Director at Netflix, where he started and led the Algorithms team building the famous Netflix recommendations. Xavier started his career as a researcher both in academia and industry. With over 100 research publications (and 6,000 citations), he is best known for his work on AI and ML in general, and recommender systems in particular.