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Wayfair Intern Shima Dezfulian: Everyone Here Wants to See You Succeed

Like many interns at Wayfair, Shima Dezfulian works on projects that have a high impact on the company’s operations. More specifically, Dezfulian is part of a Wayfair’s finance and algorithms team that leverages machine learning to make predictions about Wayfair’s profitability.

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How supply chain perspectives influence customer demand at Wayfair

As with many e-commerce companies, recommender systems are widely used at Wayfair to show the most relevant products to customers at every stage of their shopping journey. Machine learning models used in recommender systems typically optimize for metrics related to customer satisfaction: actions such as clicks, conversions and Add-to-Cart. My talk at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) was related to how Wayfair is utilizing inputs from our supply chain to influence the products we showcase to consumers as they search and browse our storefront.

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Utilizing Piecewise Linear Approximations – With a Twist – to Make Supply Chain Decisions

The annual conference for the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) brings together professionals and experts from the industry and academia. At INFORMS 2022, I will be giving a presentation on Global Network Optimization (GNO), which is an ongoing project carried out by Wayfair’s operations research team.

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The Wayfair Forecast Calls for Google Cloud and Clear Skies Ahead

On Tuesday October 11, 2022 Google announced in a press release that Wayfair completed the migration of all our data center applications and services to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This was a significant move that will provide huge benefits, enabling us to increase agility, technical innovation, and more. You can read the full press release [here].

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How Wayfair leader Alex Maclinovsky draws on the sciences to make technology decisions

“My job involves making highly business critical technical decisions,” says Alex Maclinovsky. “In my role, I have to go through a large number of technical documents, presentations and make a lot of time-sensitive decisions.”

Photo of Fiona Tan, Wayfair Chief Technology Officer

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Fiona Tan: Science is an integral part of everything we do at Wayfair

As the CTO of Wayfair, Fiona Tan leads the global technology organization responsible for shaping market-leading experiences for the company’s 30 million plus customers, 14,000 suppliers and thousands of employees.

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Reaching the Nexus of our Warehouse Management System Journey

Wayfair recently celebrated a significant milestone. I’ll give you a hint-it was featured in a roundup of the top 20 innovations from Wayfair’s first two decades of operation. The answer is Wayfair’s new homegrown warehouse management system (WMS), Nexus.

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Wayfair paper accepted at RecSys 2022 applies state-of-the-art method to generate product recommendations

Style transfer: How Wayfair leverages customer browse activity in one furniture category to inform recommendations for a category they have never shopped before.

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Economic Internship Yields Real World Impact at Wayfair

Erika Frost says that science “was in the air” at her childhood home in Colorado.