E117 Robert Chen, Head of AI at Compass

Today's guest is Robert Chen, Head of AI at Compass. Founded in 2012, Compass is a real estate technology company with a powerful end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling workflow. They deliver an incomparable experience to both agents and their clients all in service of the Compass mission: to help everyone find their place in the world.

Robert has a deep passion is building large-scale machine learning systems that power customers and business and has previous experience working with Intel, Microsoft and Zillow Group. He is now the Director of Engineering and Head of AI at Compass, where he is working on bringing Artificial Intelligence to Agent Intelligence at Real Estate.

In the show, Robert will tell you about:

The impact Compass are making within real estate,

Challenges they are solving with AI and Data Science,

Interesting projects within search, computer vision & more,

Setting up a successful team structure,

How COVID-19 has impacted the team’s productivity,

and What he looks for when hiring candidates at Compass