Xavier Amatriain

Xavier Amatriain is co-founder/CTO of Curai, a startup using AI to scale the world’s best healthcare to every human being. Prior to this, he was VP of Engineering at Quora, and Research/Engineering Director at Netflix, where he led the team building the famous Netflix recommendation algorithms. Before going into leadership positions in industry, Xavier was a researcher in both academia and industry. With over 50 publications in different fields, Xavier is best known for his work on machine learning in general and recommender systems in particular. He has lectured at different universities both in the US and Spain and is frequently invited as a speaker and senior committee member at conferences.