Brandon (Anbang) Wu
Brandon (Anbang) Wu is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Quizlet, where he drives search relevance for tens of millions of learners worldwide. Previously at Shopify At Shopify, he built large-scale recommendation systems that powered product discovery for hundreds of thousands of merchants. Earlier at NBCUniversal’s Fandango, he led machine learning initiatives developing content recommendation algorithms for both theatrical and streaming platforms. Brandon holds master’s degrees in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and Analytics from UCLA.
Session
We present a hybrid framework for typeahead search that combines prefix matching with semantic retrieval using open-source tools. Applied at Quizlet, it indexed 200 million terms and improved coverage, boosted relevance, and lifted suggestion engagement by up to 37 percent—offering a reusable approach for building scalable, robust query suggestions.