Christian Posse

Christian Posse is a Program Manager at Google. Prior to Google, he was Principal Data Scientist & Principal Product Manager at LinkedIn Inc. where he lead the development of recommendation solutions, similar search functionalities and the next generation online experimentation platform. Prior to LinkedIn, Dr. Posse was a founding member and technology lead of Cisco Systems Inc. Network Collaboration Business Unit where he designed the analytics enabling Pulse, Cisco's network-based search and collaboration platform for the enterprise. Prior to Cisco, Dr. Posse worked in a wide range of environments, from holding faculty positions in US universities, to leading the research and development in software companies and a US National Laboratory in the knowledge management, biostatistics and financial analytics fields. His interests are diverse and include predictive analytics, search and recommendation engines, social networks analytics, computational social and behavioral sciences, computational linguistics, information fusion. He has written over 40 scientific peer-reviewed publications and holds several patents in those fields. Dr. Posse has a PhD in Statistics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland.