Tom Noda is a lead engineer at Orbitz Worldwide. He focuses on research and development for next generation of online travel applications to leverage machine learning and massive amount of travel data to help travelers make better decisions. Some of the research areas are flight/hotel price prediction, user review analysis, hotel recommender system, and macro travel trends. Prior to his current role, Tom had been designing and developing large-scale auto bidding system for search engine marketing using Hadoop and HBase. He holds B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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