Dr. Jinlin Wang Joins Taste Analytics Advisory Board

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - May 18, 2016 - PRLog -- Taste Analytics is pleased to announce that it has expanded its advisory board via the addition of Jinlin Wang, Ph.D., most recently Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Answers.com, the most trusted place for answering life's questions.

"With more than 17 years of progressive responsibility leading organizations in technology, Jinlin brings expertise in building culture and exceptional experiences in corporate governance, operations, and engineering." Derek Wang, CEO of Taste Analytics, said. "His deep industry experiences will be instrumental in helping us anticipate market needs and capitalize opportunities as we grow our business"

Jinlin commented, "With the Signals platform, Derek and the team at Taste Analytics are bringing a new level of quality and ease of use for obtaining customer insights. Signals brings data silos together in an interactive, visual interface, and empowers front line employees with data-driven insights. Signals is unique in how they make self-service data analytics possible."

About Dr. Jinlin Wang

Jinlin Wang was most recently Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Answers, leading the company's people and technology operations. In this role, he oversees recruitment, human capital management as well as the technology that powers top Internet brand Answers.com and Answers Cloud Services, an integrated suite of world-class VOC solutions.

Prior to joining Answers, he was a principal development manager of Online Service Division at Microsoft, responsible for contextual ads modeling and algorithmic development. Prior to Microsoft, he was a director of engineering at Yahoo where he led the research and development of analytics and quality-based pricing for paid/sponsored search (multi-billion dollar) marketplace. Over the four years at Yahoo, he led the development and operations in the following areas: the Yahoo direct marketing system (DMS) that transacts and optimizes multi-million dollar annual advertising spend, the content recommendation engine for online users, the recommendation engine and media buying optimization for large display advertisers, and the optimal delivery of display advertising. He is the lead or co-inventor of four patent applications of innovative online monetization methods.

Prior to embarking on consumer internet and online monetization, Dr. Wang spent eight years at PeopleSoft and subsequently Oracle managing and developing optimization technology and its applications. He was a founding manager of the PeopleSoft Optimization Group and led the team in conceiving, prototyping, building, and growing the PeopleSoft Optimization Framework (POF), the industry's first patented design and run-time framework for cost effective development and deployment of optimization applications. He is a co-inventor of the patented framework.

About Taste Analytics
Taste Analytics changes the way people gain invaluable and actionable insights from textual data. Incorporating predictive modeling, machine learning, and robust statistical NLP algorithms, our Signals platform helps to create visualizations of behavior communities, trends, patterns, and outlying themes. We are a team of computer scientists and engineers with one simple goal in mind -- to help companies drive the shortest path from Data to Revenue. Founded in 2012, Taste Analytics is headquartered in Charlotte, NC. Visit us at www.tasteanalytics.com (http://ctt.marketwire.com/?release=1227094&id=7619695...) or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @TasteAnalytics.