Divy is a Program Manager and one of the founding members of Google research in India. He is actively involved and leading strategic programs that connect academia and research at Google, programs that focus on AI-for-Social-Good initiatives, and educational programs for schools in India with a particular focus on building computer science foundations. 00:00:12 Introductions 00:01:12 Background prior to joining Google 00:08:40 Programs you are working on as a Program Manager at Google Research a...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Watch the full conversation with Dr. Manish Gupta here: https://youtu.be/-Tl6-DKxEMU Dr. Manish Gupta is currently the Director of Google Research in India. Prior to that he was the Vice-president and led the Xerox Research Center in India majorly working on data analytics and mobile computing. Before that, he was also at IBM research in India leading the efforts and building a lab focused on high-performance computing and business analytics. He also led the efforts at Goldman Sachs developing t...
Jan 02, 2022•14 min
Check out the full conversation with Hanie here: https://youtu.be/hFJLuqaSakA Hanie is a senior research scientist at Google Brain working on research problems related to understanding and improving deep learning techniques. She works on designing algorithms with theoretical guarantees such that they work efficiently in real-world applications. Prior to that, she was a research scientist at Allen Institute of AI, and before that she was a Post-Doc fellow at UC Irvine. She graduated from USC with...
Dec 09, 2021•6 min
Dr. Manish Gupta is currently the Director of Google Research in India. Prior to that he was the Vice-president and led the Xerox Research Center in India majorly working on data analytics and mobile computing. Before that he also at IBM research in India leading the efforts and building a lab focused on high-performance computing and business analytics. He also worked on the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer project in the early 2000s at IBM TJ Watson research center for which IBM received the Nation...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Hanie is a senior research scientist at Google Brain working on research problems related to understanding and improving deep learning techniques. She works on designing algorithms with theoretical guarantees such that they work efficiently in real-world applications. Prior to that, she was a research scientist at Allen Institute for AI, and before that she was a Post-Doc fellow at UC-Irvine. She graduated from USC with a Ph.D. with minors in Mathematics. Dr. Hanie Sedghi's links Twitter: https:...
Nov 06, 2021•53 min
Do Vision Transformers work in the same way as CNNs? Do the internal representational structures of ViTs and CNNs differ? An in-depth analysis article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.08810.pdf Listen to the full conversation here: https://youtu.be/htnJxcwJqeA Dr. Maithra Raghu is a senior research scientist at Google working on analyzing the internal workings of deep neural networks so that we can deploy them better keeping humans in the loop. She recently graduated from Cornell University with a Ph...
Oct 29, 2021•5 min
How to decide and choose a research/thesis to work on that interests you and is also relevant to current research directions. Full episodes with Maithra, Google: https://youtu.be/htnJxcwJqeA Natasha Google: https://youtu.be/8XpCnmvq49s Milind Google: https://youtu.be/eqwF3NpZFb4 Hima Harvard University: https://youtu.be/8Ym4oYTd8Fo Ishan Facebook AI: https://youtu.be/Pb5RQAEtznk About the Host: Jay is a PhD student at Arizona State University, doing research on building Interpretable AI models f...
Oct 04, 2021•15 min
Dr. Maithra Raghu is a senior research scientist at Google working on analyzing the internal workings of deep neural networks so that we can deploy them better keeping humans in the loop. She recently graduated from Cornell University with a PhD in CS and previously graduated from Cambridge University with BA and Masters in Mathematics. She has received multiple awards for her research work including the Forbes 30 under 30. Questions that we cover 00:00:00 Introductions 00:01:00 To understand mo...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 15 min
How can you students and researchers work on projects using AI that creates a real impact and difference in society? Watch the full podcast with Dr. Tambe here: https://youtu.be/eqwF3NpZFb4 Dr. Milind Tambe is a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and Director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society. He is also the Director of AI for Social Good at Google Research in India. He has been leading and working on projects that are creating an impact, ranging from wildlif...
Sep 23, 2021•5 min
Watch the full conversation with Nasrin here: https://youtu.be/59kRUmhA5yI Nasrin is the co-founder of a deep-tech startup Verneek and has been in the space of AI startups for the past 5 years now. Before that, she was a senior research scientist at Elemental Cognition & BenevolentAI, and prior to which she graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and her major research interests are in building intelligent systems that can demonstrate commonsense reasoning & generate caus...
Jul 20, 2021•5 min
How can we build intuition for interdisciplinary fields in order to tackle challenges in social reinforcement learning? Natasha Jaques is currently a Research Scientist at Google Brain and a post-doc fellow at UC Berkeley, where her research interests are in designing multi-agent RL algorithms while focusing on social reinforcement learning. She received her Ph.D. from MIT and has also received multiple awards for her research works submitted to venues like ICML and NeurIPS She has interned at D...
Jul 19, 2021•7 min
Why and where do companies fail at productionizing ML models? Watch the full podcast with Aarti here: https://youtu.be/VWJXiszQpTU Aarti is a machine learning engineer at Snorkel AI. Prior to that, she worked closely with Andrew Ng in various capacities. She graduated with a master’s in CS from Stanford, and bachelor's in CS and Computer Engineering from @New York University, and at @Microsoft Research as a research intern for John Langford, where she contributed to Vowpal Wabbit, an open-source...
Jul 19, 2021•6 min
Deciding whether to do a Ph.D. or not and things to focus on while writing your research thesis. Watch the full podcast here: https://youtu.be/8Ym4oYTd8Fo Dr. Himabindu Lakkaraju is an Assistant Professor at Harvard University and her major research interests are along the lines of explainability, fairness, and robustness in AI systems. Prior to that she graduated with a Ph.D. from @Stanford and has received multiple awards for her research work. Dr. Lakkaraju's homepage: https://himalakkaraju.g...
Jul 18, 2021•19 min
Dr. Geneviève Patterson is the head of applied research at VSCO. Prior to that, she was the CTO of a video editing company she co-founded called TRASH - later acquired by VSCO. She holds a Ph.D. in CS from Brown University with a focus on research in video understanding. She was also a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research where she worked on interpreting deep neural networks and much more. Geneviève Homepage: http://genp.github.io/ About the Host: Jay is a Ph.D. student at Arizona State...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 33 min
Dr. Milind Tambe is a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and Director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society. He is also the Director of AI for Social Good at Google Research in India. He has been leading and working on projects that are creating an impact, ranging from wildlife conservation, public health, and safety using AI techniques. Time Stamps: 00:00 Introductions 01:05 In concrete terms what projects are you currently working on? 03:18 Do you think there i...
Jul 02, 2021•34 min
“What got you into AI? And what part of it really interests you about it?” — a simple question that I have asked more than 30 researchers from different backgrounds and applications on my podcasts to learn more about their motivation. Thought of compiling them into one; to whosoever, it proves to be insightful with the aim to learn more what drives researchers explore and work in the domain of Machine Learning and what got them started in it! About the Host: I am a Ph.D. student at Arizona State...
Jun 26, 2021•35 min
Read more about this here in her Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/nasrinmmm/status/1374372131207806976 Nasrin is the co-founder of a deep-tech startup Verneek and has been in the space of AI startups for the past 5 years now. Before that, she was a senior research scientist at Elemental Cognition & BenevolentAI, and prior to which she graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and her major research interests are in building intelligent systems that can demonstrate commonsens...
Jun 26, 2021•5 min
Three research scientists from Google share their journey about interest in Machine Learning research and how they got started with it. Watch full podcasts with each of these speakers: Azalia Mirhoseini: https://youtu.be/5LCfH8YiOv4 Sara Hooker: https://youtu.be/MHtbZls2uts Natasha Jacques: https://youtu.be/8XpCnmvq49s About the Host: Jay is a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University, doing research on building Interpretable AI models for Medical Diagnosis. Jay Shah: https://www.linkedin.com/in...
Jun 26, 2021•11 min
Shreya is currently a graduate student at Stanford and also working as an ML engineer at Viaduct.ai. She has previously interned at Google-Brain and at Facebook. She talks about her experience as an applied ML engineer and making ML models work in the real world. Shreya's homepage: https://www.shreya-shankar.com About the Host: Jay is a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University, doing research on building Interpretable AI models for Medical Diagnosis. Jay Shah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahja...
Jun 26, 2021•52 min
Full episode available here: https://youtu.be/V1mDR4x_JY0 Jineet, a Data Scientist at Intuit and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University shares some amazing insights about data science and machine learning probing his experiences. Our aim of these webinars is to connect you with the brightest minds in the field of Machine Learning/Data Science so that you can learn how to break into the field and build an incredible career! You can reach out to https://www.public.asu.edu/~jgshah1/ for any queri...
Jun 26, 2021•4 min
What really drives the innovation in research projects? Is it a pure pursuit of theory or application-oriented? Ishan is a Research Scientist at @Facebook AI. Much of his recent research work revolves around self-supervised learning is known for this works like including SwAV and PIRL and, Michal Drozdzal is also a Research Scientist at @Facebook AI with major research interests in computer vision, Machine Learning, and medical image analysis. The full conversation with Ishan: https://youtu.be/u...
Jun 23, 2021•5 min
Po-Shen Loh is a Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University with research interests in combinatorics, probability theory, and computer science. He is also the coach of the United States International Math Olympiad team and it was under his guidance he led his teams to secure first place in 2015, 16, 18, and 19. He is also the founder of Expii, an online platform that teaches young students basic concepts of math and science. He is also the founder of the NOVID app that has an innovat...
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Michal Drozdzal is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI with major research interests in computer vision. Machine Learning and medical image analysis. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Barcelona. We talk about his journey into research, some open research questions, how research projects look at the intersection of AI and medical research, and more about the democratization of AI research. Michal's LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michal-drozdzal-a36b9b42...
May 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Nasrin is the co-founder of a deep-tech startup Verneek and has been in the space of AI startups for the past 5 years now. Before that, she was a senior research scientist at Elemental Cognition & BenevolentAI, and prior to which she graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and her major research interests are in building intelligent systems that can demonstrate commonsense reasoning & generate causal explanations in order to improve human-AI collaborations. She was featur...
May 06, 2021•1 hr 23 min
How to deal and Interpret failures in research? Developing guts for which research will work out and which will not over course of time, from being a researcher in academia as a Ph.D. student to now being a research scientist at Facebook. Check out the whole podcast here: https://youtu.be/Pb5RQAEtznk Ishan is a Research Scientist at @Facebook AI. Much of his recent research work revolves around self-supervised learning is known for this works like including SwAV and PIRL. He completed his Ph.D. ...
Apr 28, 2021•6 min
Ishan is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI. Much of his recent research work revolves around self-supervised learning is known for this works like including SwAV and PIRL. He completed his Ph.D. from CMU with Martial Hebert and Abhinav Gupta. and his thesis was titled “Visual Learning with Minimal Human Supervision” Ishan's homepage: http://imisra.github.io/ About the Host: Jay is a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University, doing research on building Interpretable AI models for Medical Diagno...
Apr 09, 2021•48 min
Linda is Product Lead at FAIRE and has in the past interned at Snap Inc., Microsft, BAIN, and graduate from Harvard University. She has a tremendous amount of experience in Product Management and openly shares her insights through newsletters here https://www.productlessons.xyz/ for people to get started with it. You can reach out to her and follow more of her updates at https://twitter.com/thelindazhang Also check out these talks on all available podcast platforms: https://jayshah.buzzsprout.co...
Apr 02, 2021•53 min
Aarti is a machine learning engineer at Snorkel AI. Prior to that, she worked closely with Andrew Ng in various capacities - at AI Fund helping build ML companies from scratch internally, as well as investing in ML companies, as a machine learning engineer at his startup Landing AI, as head TA for his deep learning class at Stanford University (CS230), and in his research lab at Stanford. She graduated with a master’s in CS from Stanford, and with bachelors in CS and Computer Engineering from Ne...
Mar 30, 2021•59 min
What kind of challenges have you noticed while working with ML applications in production, that most newbies don't know as students or fresh graduates? And what ML applications production pipeline look like? Watch the full podcast here: https://youtu.be/VWJXiszQpTU Also check-out these talks on all available podcast platforms: https://jayshah.buzzsprout.com About the Host: Jay is a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University, doing research on building Interpretable AI models for Medical Diagnosis...
Mar 26, 2021•11 min
Watch the full podcast with Natasha here: https://youtu.be/8XpCnmvq49s Also check-out these talks on all available podcast platforms: https://jayshah.buzzsprout.com About the Host: Jay is a PhD student at Arizona State University, doing research on building Interpretable AI models for Medical Diagnosis. Jay Shah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahjay22/ You can reach out to https://www.public.asu.edu/~jgshah1/ for any queries. Stay tuned for upcoming webinars! ***Disclaimer: The information contai...
Mar 21, 2021•4 min
