Summary
Staff ML Lead at Criteo (since January 2015).
I lead the machine learning team for product recommendation at Criteo.
Previously I worked as a researcher, engineer and engineering manager at MIT and Thales, with a focus on computer vision, robotics, and self-driving cars.
Email: olivier@olivierkoch.org
Find me on Medium, Twitter, Google scholar, LinkedIn
Articles/blog posts
- Making your company machine learning-centric, june 2019
- RecSys 2018: Recommender systems that care! oct 2018
- Fighting for public data, oct 2017
- Rewarding your heroes, aug 2017
- A day in the life of an EPM, jan 2016
Recent talks
- Recommendation for new users, RecSys London Meetup, Nov 8th 2018
- 2nd Recommender Meetup, London, Sept 20, 2017 [slides]
- ICML workshop on online advertising, New York, May 2016 [slides]
- Tektos Data Meetup, Paris, June 2016 [slides]
- Rythm Meetup, Paris, June 2016 [slides]
- MIT Machine learning Tea, September 2015
Software
My github contains the following software: intro-to-reco: teaching material for my course on recommendation engines, built with Flavian Vasile navguide: code of my PhD work on vision-based navigation for humans and robots omni3d: code of my MS work on 3D localization with omnidirectional video hashcode: code of my participations in the Google Hashcode contests nestor: an app to track weather forecast and subway lines in real-time in Paris respire: a linux-based app to track air quality from various sensors
Recent news
Reviewer for ICML 2019 and NeurIPS 2019
Co-organizer of REVEAL: the Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Recommendation at RecSys 2018 and 2019.
Teaching
In Sept 2019, I will start teaching a machine learning class at M2 level at Paris Dauphine.
Material of my class on Recommendation the Data Science Summer School at Ecole Polytechnique in June 2019. [github]
Publications
[1] ICRA 2010, Olivier Koch, Matthew R. Walter, Albert S. Huang, and Seth Teller, Ground robot navigation using uncalibrated cameras, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK, May 2010 PDF
[2] ICCV 2009, Olivier Koch, Seth Teller, Body-relative navigation using uncalibrated cameras, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision(ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, October 2009 PDF
[3] IJFR 2008, Leonard et al., A Perception Driven Autonomous Urban Robot, International Journal of Field Robotics, 25, 10:727—774, 2008 PDF
[4] CVPR 2007, Olivier Koch, Seth Teller, Wide-area egomotion estimation from known 3D structure, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR), Minneapolis, MN, June 2007 PDF
[5] PhD Thesis, Body-relative navigation guidance using uncalibrated cameras. 2010. PDF
[6] MS Thesis, Wide-Area Egomotion from Omnidirectional Video and Coarse 3D Structure. 2007. PDF