Ann Spencer

Ann Spencer is a senior product marketing manager for Merlin. Prior to joining NVIDIA, she held product and research roles at various data companies. She was also the Data Editor at O'Reilly Media focused on data engineering and data science from 2012-2014.

Posts by Ann Spencer

Data Science Nov 22, 2021

NVIDIA Merlin Extends Open Source Interoperability for Recommender Workflows with Latest Update

Data scientists and machine learning engineers use many methods, techniques, and tools to prep, build, train, deploy, and optimize their machine learning... 2 MIN READ

AI / Deep Learning Sep 24, 2021

Accelerating Embedding with the HugeCTR TensorFlow Embedding Plugin

Recommender systems are the economic engine of the Internet. It is hard to imagine any other type of applications with more direct impact in our daily digital... 12 MIN READ

Data Science Jul 20, 2021

NVIDIA Earns 1st Place in RecSys Challenge 2021

The NVIDIA Merlin and KGMON team earned 1st place in the RecSys Challenge 2021 by effectively predicting the probability of user engagement within a dynamic... 2 MIN READ

Data Science May 04, 2021

NVIDIA Merlin Latest Enhancements Streamlines Recommender Workflows with .5 Release

Billions of people in the world are online. Many discrete moments online are spent browsing, shopping, streaming entertainment, or engaging with social media.... 3 MIN READ

Data Science Apr 06, 2021

NVIDIA Deepens Commitment to Streamlining Recommender Workflows with GTC Spring Sessions

Ensuring recommenders are meaningful, personalized, and relevant to a single customer is not easy. Scaling a personalized recommender experience to hundreds of... 2 MIN READ

Data Science Oct 05, 2020

Accelerating Recommender Systems Training with NVIDIA Merlin Open Beta

NVIDIA Merlin is an open beta application framework and ecosystem that enables the end-to-end development of recommender systems, from data preprocessing to... 9 MIN READ