David Racz
Principal ScientistPersonalized Relevancy, Ranking, and Recommendation
Background
I lead the Personalized Relevancy, Ranking, and Recommedations (PR3) team @ The Nokia Research Center, North America Lab in Palo Alto. Our team focuses on the acquisition, aggregation, and analysis of behavioral and sensor data from mobile devices to backend systems, to build highly reliable and scalable predictive models that dramatically increase the relevancy of ranking and recommendation systems.
Research Interests
I have a broad range of interests from cognitive science and evolutionary systems, to markets, web technology and distributed systems.
Currently, I am focused on scalable systems for behavioral and sensor data, visit detection, activity recognition, and cognitive extension.
Personal Information
I'm from New Jersey, lived in Boston for many years, then San Diego, and now live in Palo Alto with my wife and 4 children. I enjoy hacking, boardsports, music, politics, and thought.
Other Information
Education
- M.B.A with focus on Communcations and Information Technology (2006) from the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego
- M.S. in Computer Systems Engineering (2000) from Boston University
- B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (1997) from Boston University
As an undergraduate I worked in the Intelligent Systems / Brain and Vision Research Lab. There I researched human and artificial vision systems, neural plasticity and MRI and fMRI imaging studies, psychophysics, neural networks, and neuronal modeling.
As a graduate student I focused on cognitive science, software, and distributed systems. I served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow and lectured and designed coursework and labwork for Computational Vision, Software Systems, Biomedical Electronics, Medical Imaging, and Human Brain Mapping.
