Xingchu Liu

Xingchu Liu

President of BlackLocus – a subsidiary company of The Home Depot
Austin, TX

Biography

Xingchu Liu is currently the President of BlackLocus, a subsidiary company of The Home Depot. He has over 15 years of experience building business applications powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, and driving top-line & bottom-line growth of a variety of businesses. He received his bachelor’s degrees in Automation and Business Administration, a master’s degree in Automatic Control from Tsinghua University, and a doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Scalable Prescriptive Analytics in Retail

Retail space is rapidly transforming, and its core merchandising decisions need both speed and scale. In this talk, we will discuss these challenges from analytics perspective, and the big data solutions to leverage machine learning and optimization techniques to drive best business decisions as scale.