CS Prof Kavita Bala gave an invited talk at the workshop “ML Meets Fashion” at SIGKDD recently. She was also quoted in the Technology Review regarding the workshop:
“There’s been a whole move from companies like Amazon trying to understand how fashion develops in the world,” says Kavita Bala, a professor at Cornell University who took part in a workshop on machine learning and fashion organized by Amazon last week. “This is completely changing the industry.”
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