Bas Vlaming
Bas is a data scientist at Picnic Technologies. In his role, he functions as the Merchandising chapter lead, where he is responsible for AI projects that affect the Picnic app and what customers will see there, such as promotion forecasting, ranking & personalization, and recommendations. He has a background in physics, holding a Ph.D. from the University of Groningen and previously working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MPI-PKS and Ocado Technology.
Sessions
An ever increasing number of people are discovering mobile grocery shopping as an alternative to brick-and-mortar supermarkets. This talk will cover how we can use machine learning to make these customers' grocery shopping as smooth and frictionless as possible. We do this by applying ML models that rank products in agreement with the customer’s intent: e.g., by detecting personal shopping habits, and by striking a balance between query relevance and margin.