Speakers
Vinny DeGenova
Associate Director of Machine Learning
Wayfair
Vinny leads the Catalog Science organization at Wayfair, overseeing teams that leverage machine learning to understand the product catalog, annotate and extract insights from user-generated content, and develop multimodal foundation models for on-site experiences ranging from intelligent filters to search and recommendations. The teams he leads also build visual search applications, identify and resolve duplicate products, run competitive product matching algorithms, and predict future product performance. With a background in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s in Computer Science, Vinny brings over 10 years of industry experience, including leading personalization ML teams and developing ML solutions in the defense industry.
How Wayfair is Transforming Customer Experiences with Data-Centric AI
Learn how Wayfair is harnessing the power of machine learning and data to make it easier for customers to find the exact home products they’re looking for with Snorkel AI.
You’ll find out how highly accurate product tags can be extracted from supplier-provided labels and product images to clean and enrich online catalogs. This delivers higher-quality content for customers and the ability to quickly adapt as customer searches evolve. Bottom line – they were able to increase their add-to-cart rates, reduce their cart abandonment rates, and increase their average order size and customer lifetime value.