Eugene Yan
Known for: Applied ML practitioner writing on recommendation systems, personalization, and production ML systems Blog: eugeneyan.com
Areas of Expertise
- Personalization patterns in recommendations and search
- Production ML system design
- Recommendation systems at scale (Amazon, industry-wide)
Articles in Awesome Search
Key Contributions
“Patterns for Personalization” surveys five core ML architectures for personalization (Bandits, Embeddings+MLP, Sequential Models, Graph-Based, User Embeddings) with industry case studies from Netflix, Airbnb, Alibaba, and others — a rare unified taxonomy across the space.