👩💻Today our guest is Suzanah Ilić! Suzanah is a founder of Machine Learning Tokyo which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to democratizing Machine Learning. They are a team of ML Engineers and Researchers and a community of more than 3000 people. Machine Learning Tokyo: https://mltokyo.ai/ Follow Suzanah on twitter: https://twitter.com/suzatweet Check out our podcasts homepage for transcripts and more episodes! www.wandb.com/podcast 🔊 Get our podcast on Apple and Spotify! Apple Podcasts:...
Sep 02, 2020•35 min
Jeremy Howard is a founding researcher at fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to making Deep Learning more accessible. Previously, he was the CEO and Founder at Enlitic, an advanced machine learning company in San Francisco, California. Howard is a faculty member at Singularity University, where he teaches data science. He is also a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, and spoke at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014 on "Jobs For The Machines." Howard advised Khosla Ve...
Aug 25, 2020•51 min
As Lyft’s VP of Engineering, Software at Level 5, Autonomous Vehicle Program, Anantha Kancherla has a birds-eye view on what it takes to make self-driving cars work in the real world. He previously worked on Windows at Microsoft focusing on DirectX, Graphics and UI; Facebook’s mobile Newsfeed and core mobile experiences; and led the Collaboration efforts at Dropbox involving launching Dropbox Paper as well as improving core collaboration functionality in Dropbox. He and Lukas dive into the chall...
Aug 12, 2020•45 min
Bharath created the deepchem.io open-source project to grow the deep drug discovery open source community, co-created the moleculenet.ai benchmark suite to facilitate development of molecular algorithms, and more. Bharath’s graduate education was supported by a Hertz Fellowship, the most selective graduate fellowship in the sciences. Bharath is the lead author of “TensorFlow for Deep Learning: From Linear Regression to Reinforcement Learning”, a developer’s introduction to modern machine learnin...
Aug 05, 2020•55 min
Chip Huyen is a writer and computer scientist currently working at a startup that focuses on machine learning production pipelines. Previously, she’s worked at NVIDIA, Netflix, and Primer. She helped launch Coc Coc - Vietnam’s second most popular web browser with 20+ million monthly active users. Before all of that, she was a best selling author and traveled the world. Chip graduated from Stanford, where she created and taught the course on TensorFlow for Deep Learning Research. Check out Chip's...
Jul 29, 2020•43 min
👨🏻💻Our guest on this episode of Gradient Dissent is Peter Skomoroch! Peter is the former head of data products at Workday and LinkedIn. Previously, he was the cofounder and CEO of venture-backed deep learning startup SkipFlag, which was acquired by Workday, and a principal data scientist at LinkedIn. Check out his recent publication: What you need to know about product management for AI https://www.oreilly.com/radar/what-you-need-to-know-about-product-management-for-ai/ Follow Peter on Twitt...
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr 27 min
Josh Tobin is a researcher working at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. His research focuses on applying deep reinforcement learning, generative models, and synthetic data to problems in robotic perception and control. Additionally, he co-organizes a machine learning training program for engineers to learn about production-ready deep learning called Full Stack Deep Learning. https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/ Josh did his PhD in Computer Science at UC Berkeley advised by Pieter ...
Jul 08, 2020•48 min
Miles Brundage researches the societal impacts of artificial intelligence and how to make sure they go well. In 2018, he joined OpenAI, as a Research Scientist on the Policy team. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute and served as a member of Axon's AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board. Keep up with Miles on his website: https://www.milesbrundage.com/ and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/miles_brundage Visit our podcasts homepage for t...
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Hamel Husain is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Github. He has extensive experience building data analytics and predictive modeling solutions for a wide range of industries, including: hospitality, telecom, retail, restaurant, entertainment and finance. He has built large data science teams (50+) from the ground up and have extensive experience building solutions as an individual contributor. Follow Hamel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HamelHusain And on his website: http://hamel.io/ Learn...
Jun 24, 2020•36 min
Peter Welinder is a research scientist and roboticist at OpenAI. Before that, he was an engineer at Dropbox and ran the machine learning team, and before that, he co-founded Anchovi Labs a startup using Computer Vision to organize photos that was acquired by Dropbox in 2012. In this episode of our podcast, Peter shares his experiences and the challenges associated with building a robotic hand that can solve a rubix cube. Read some of Peter’s Articles: https://openai.com/blog/authors/peter/ Follo...
Jun 17, 2020•54 min
👩💻Today our guest is Vicki Boykis! Vicki is a senior consultant in machine learning and engineering and works with clients to build holistic data products used for decision-making. She's previously spoken at PyData, taught SQL for GirlDevelopIt, and blogs about data pipelines and open internet. Follow her on her website: vickiboykis.com On twitter: https://twitter.com/vboykis and subscribe to her newsletter: vicki.substack.com Check out our podcasts homepage for transcripts and more episodes!...
Jun 04, 2020•34 min
👩💻👩💻On this episode of Gradient Dissent our guests are Angela Bassa and Danielle Dean! Angela is an expert in building and leading data teams. An MIT-trained and Edelman-award-winning mathematician, she has over 15 years of experience across industries—spanning finance, life sciences, agriculture, marketing, energy, software, and robotics. Angela heads Data Science and Machine Learning at iRobot, where her teams help bring intelligence to a global fleet of millions of consumer robots. She ...
May 06, 2020•53 min
Jack Clark is the Strategy and Communications Director at OpenAI and formerly worked as the world’s only neural network reporter at Bloomberg. Lukas and Jack discuss AI policy, ethics, and the responsibilities of AI researchers. Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims by OpenAI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07213 Follow Jack Clark on Twitter: twitter.com/jackclarkSF Read more posts by Jack on his website: https://jack-clark.net/ Get our podcast on Apple and S...
Apr 22, 2020•56 min
🏅 See how W&B is your secret weapon to make it onto the Kaggle leaderboards - https://www.wandb.com/kaggle 👩💻Rachael Tatman is a developer advocate for Rasa, where she helps developers build and deploy conversational AI applications using their open source framework. 🤖💬 She has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Washington where she researched computational sociolinguistics, or how our social identity affects the way we use language in computational contexts. Previously she wa...
Apr 07, 2020•37 min
👨🏻💻Nicolas Koumchatzky is the Director of AI infrastructure at NVIDIA, where he's responsible for MagLev, the production-grade machine learning platform by NVIDIA. His team supports diverse ML use cases: autonomous vehicles, medical imaging, super resolution, predictive analytics, cyber security, robotics. He started as a Quant in Paris, then joined Madbits, a startup specialized on using deep learning for content understanding. When Madbits was acquired by Twitter in 2014, he joined as a de...
Mar 21, 2020•45 min
👨🏻💻Brandon Rohrer is a Mechanical Engineer turned Data Scientist. He’s currently a Principal Data Scientist at iRobot and has an incredibly popular Machine Learning course at e2eML where he’s made some wildly popular videos on convolutional neural networks and deep learning. His fascination with robots began after watching Luke Skywalker’s prosthetic hand in the Empire Strikes Back. He turned this fascination into a PhD from MIT and subsequently found his way to building some incredible data...
Mar 11, 2020•35 min
