Data Science

Grab Senior Data Scientist Dr. Liuqin Yang wins the 2018 Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize, the highest honor in Computational Mathematical Optimization. He has been recognised for his paper and the corresponding software SDPNAL+.

We're excited to share the publication of our paper GrabShare: The Construction of a Realtime Ridesharing Service, which was Grab's contribution to the Intelligent Transportation Engineering Conference in Singapore last month.

Launching GrabShare was no easy feat. After reviewing the academic literature, we decided to take a different approach and build a new matching algorithm from the ground up.

How do you work within a startup team and build a quick idea into a key feature for an app that impacts millions of people? It's one of those things that is hard to understand when you just graduate as an engineer.