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Engineering More Reliable Transportation with Machine Learning and AI at Uber

November 10, 2017 / Global
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Attendees listen to presentations during our Uber Machine Learning Meetup on September 12, 2017.
Figure 1: A visualization highlights trips originating from Uber’s HQ block in San Francisco.
Figure 2: Destination prediction ranking leverages various features and along with a gradient boosted decision tree to provide destination suggestions to riders.
Figure 3: A spatio-temporal stream-processing engine, along with custom models, powers the generation of billions of real-time forecasts every minute.
Figure 4: Dispatch matching leverages a thousands of features to generate thousands of predictions in sub-second timing.
Figure 5: Uber’s Marketplace organization industrializes machine learning by building  systems that learn with scale.
Figure 6: Our customizable NLP platform enables Data Scientists to rapidly build models for chatbots, sentiment analysis, and rapid response for support tickets.
Figure 7: Uber’s anomaly detection platform helps our engineering teams to maximize the actionable on-call alerts.
Figure 8: The anatomy of an Uber ATG self-driving car includes LiDAR sensors, cameras, antenna for GPS positioning, compute and storage, and radar.
Figure 9: Multiple inputs are used for training along with intermediate feedback loops to build learning for end-to-end self-driving.
Figure 10: Time-aggregated views create denser information and temporal features for algorithms focused on safety.
Chintan Turakhia

Chintan Turakhia

Chintan Turakhia is an engineering manager on Uber's Marketplace team.

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