Andrey Gusev

Education

MS in Computer Science, with Distinction in Research
Stanford University, 2010. Concentration in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.
Advised by Christopher D. Manning and Dan Jurafsky.
BS in Computer Science, with Honors; minor in Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.

Pinterest, San Francisco. Director of Machine Learning, 2017–present.
At Pinterest I lead the Content Quality organization. We architect the company’s horizontal intelligence layer, governing the entire content-quality spectrum – from high-utility discovery and relevance to automated policy enforcement.
Sift Science (now Sift), San Francisco. Tech Lead, 2013–2017.
Machine learning systems for real-time fraud detection.
Salesforce, San Francisco. Lead Software Engineer, 2006–2013.
Search relevance and predictive infrastructure.

Evolution of a Web-Scale Near Duplicate Image Detection System
Andrey Gusev* and Jiajing Xu* (*equal contribution)
The Web Conference (WWW ’20), Taipei, Taiwan. 2020.
acm arxiv
Customizing an Information Extraction System to a New Domain
Mihai Surdeanu, David McClosky, Mason R. Smith, Andrey Gusev, and Christopher D. Manning
ACL Workshop on Relational Models of Semantics (RELMS-11), Portland, Oregon. 2011.
pdf acl anthology
Using Query Patterns to Learn the Duration of Events
Andrey Gusev, Nathanael Chambers, Pranav Khaitan, Divye Khilnani, Steven Bethard, and Dan Jurafsky
International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-11), Oxford, UK. 2011.
pdf slides dataset acl anthology

Running ML Infrastructure on HBase
HBaseCon 2015, San Francisco, California.
video slides
Presentation at the GRIDS Conference (grid computing)
GRIDS, Madison, Wisconsin. 2004.

Determining topic cohesion between posted and linked content
US 12,244,554 B2, 2025. Pinterest. patent
System, method and computer program product for applying a public tag to information
US 9,251,239 B1, 2016. Salesforce. patent
Methods and systems for making effective use of system resources
US 9,026,624 B2, 2015. Salesforce. patent

Research Assistant, Stanford Natural Language Processing Group
Stanford University. Academic year 2009–2010.
Machine Reading: unsupervised learning of event durations, and information extraction and named entity recognition in new domains.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Laboratory for Cosmological Data Mining (LCDM)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2003–2006.
Data-processing tools and high-performance computing components for cosmological surveys.

Teaching Assistant, CS276: Information Retrieval and Web Search
Stanford University. Autumn 2009.