| Summary | Edgar Meij is the head of the AI Platforms division in Bloomberg’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) group, and leads 10+ teams of engineers and researchers that are responsible for all key AI, NLP, ML, LLM, and Search technology platforms used across the company. Edgar holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Amsterdam and has an extensive track record in artificial intelligence, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale computing infrastructures, knowledge graphs, and semantic search. He has published more than 150 papers in top international venues, which have been cited more than 3,000 times. He is also a (Senior) Program Committee member of virtually every major conference in the field (including WWW/The Web Conference, WSDM, SIGIR, CIKM, KDD, AAAI, ACL, and EMNLP), has organized tutorials and workshops at those same conferences, has served as sponsorship co-chair for The Web Conference and ECIR, and as co-chair for the Industry Track (SIRIP) for SIGIR 2024. |