Travis Ebesu

Travis Ebesu is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, where they lead the Closeup team. They have a strong academic background with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and a Master of Science (M.S.) from Santa Clara University, along with ongoing studies for a Bachelor of Science (BS) at Chaminade University of Honolulu. Prior to their current role, Travis held positions as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer and Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, as well as a Senior Data Scientist at Walmart Labs and a Visiting Researcher at DOCOMO Innovations, Inc. Their research interests include deep learning, recommender systems, search, and natural language processing (NLP).