Vicki Boykis
Machine learning engineer on recommender systems and search; ran Normconf.
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- Vicki Boykis is a founding machine learning engineer at a startup working on recommendations, personalization and search.
- She worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai.
- Earlier she worked on ML and recommender systems at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast.
- She wrote a paper on what embeddings are and ran the Normconf conference.
Key facts
- Work
- Founding machine learning engineer at a startup (as of November 2026)1
- Before
- Mozilla.ai (LLMs and LLM infrastructure); Duo, Tumblr, Automattic, Comcast1
- Writing
- What are embeddings? (paper); technical editor of Building Recommendation Systems1
- Built
- Viberary, which recommends books by vibe1
- Conference
- Ran Normconf1
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