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Jayani Withanawasam
Jayani Withanawasam
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Jayani Withanawasam

Jayani Withanawasam is R&D engineer and a senior software engineer at Zaizi Asia, where she focuses on applying machine learning techniques to provide smart content management solutions. She is currently pursuing an MSc degree in artificial intelligence at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and has completed her BE in software engineering (with first class honors) from the University of Westminster, UK. She has more than 6 years of industry experience, and she has worked in areas such as machine learning, natural language processing, and semantic web technologies during her tenure. She is passionate about working with semantic technologies and big data.
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The Apache Mahout recommendations module helps you to recommend items to users which they have not seen before, based on their previous preferences. The collaborative filtering approach is implemented in Mahout. User-based recommendations, item-based recommendations, and matrix factorization are the key approaches that are geared toward collaborative filtering in Mahout.

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Jayani Withanawasam

Jayani Withanawasam is R&D engineer and a senior software engineer at Zaizi Asia, where she focuses on applying machine learning techniques to provide smart content management solutions. She is currently pursuing an MSc degree in artificial intelligence at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and has completed her BE in software engineering (with first class honors) from the University of Westminster, UK. She has more than 6 years of industry experience, and she has worked in areas such as machine learning, natural language processing, and semantic web technologies during her tenure. She is passionate about working with semantic technologies and big data.
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