Ai In Action

Today's guest is Andrei Lopatenko, VP of Engineering within Search and Conversational AI at Zillow Group. Andrei brings years of experience designing, building and scaling world-leading search engines for hundreds of millions of users. Andrei has led various teams to build customer and business Machine Learning and NLP platforms within the real estate, e-commerce & retail sectors. Founded in 2006, Zillow Group's mission to give people the power to unlock life’s next chapter. Their homes are the heartbeat of their lives and they believe that finding a home shouldn’t be so hard in today’s always-on world. That’s why Zillow Group are reimagining the real estate transaction and changing the way people buy, sell, rent and finance their homes. In the show, Andrei will discuss: What Zillow Group offer in the real estate sector, His motivation to constantly evolve and learn new things, Challenges that his team are solving at Zillow Group, Experience building successful engineering teams, Advice for academics movi