How do you help your customers find
products that they want to buy? How do you build a search
engine that handles several thousand queries per minute, in
multiple languages, over a heavily diversified product set
that includes DVDs, dietary supplements, clothing, makeup and
more? This talk covers the real-world challenges we faced in
building such a search engine and how we solved them with
insights from software engineering, information retrieval and
natural language processing.
We will also announce the launch details of highly anticipated
2014/2015 Computer Science Challenge, following on from our
very successful 2013/2014 recommendation challenge http://www.thehutchallenge.com/
Open to university students across the UK/Europe, the
challenge carries a 1st prize of £5000 and offers of highly
paid graduate technology jobs and internships.
(Pizza /drinks provided!)
Speaker details:
Dhruv Kumar joined THG in Jan 2014 and has worked on the
in-house search system since then. Before joining THG , he has
worked for HP Autonomy as a software developer and as a
researcher assistant at the Computer Vision Group of the
University of Reading. Dhruv holds an MPhil in Computer
Science from Cambridge and a BEng from the University of
Reading.
Shaun Hall joined THG ’s Growth & Innovation team in July
2013 and has spent most of his time working on our search and
browse algorithms. Prior to this, he worked on an algorithmic
trading platform at an Investment Bank. Shaun graduated with a
first class degree in Computer Science from the University of
Cambridge in 2011.
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