LeAnna Kent
Elder Research
Data Scientist
LeAnna Kent
Elder Research
Data Scientist
LeAnna is a data scientist at Elder Research, where she has worked with several commercial and government healthcare clients. Her most recent work has focused on mitigating the effects of the opioid crisis, with her earlier healthcare work primarily focused on detecting fraud, waste, and abuse among medical providers. Before joining Elder Research, LeAnna received […]
Nitin Sharma
PayPal Risk Sciences
Senior Research Scientist
Nitin Sharma
PayPal Risk Sciences
Senior Research Scientist
Nitin is a Senior Research Scientist at the AI research group in PayPal Risk Sciences, where he focuses on end-to-end design and development of AI algorithms, particularly deep learning, for large-scale real-time payments fraud detection. His research involves the next generation of fraud detection capabilities by designing novel fraud problem formulations, utilizing the exhaustive PayPal […]
Renaud Bourassa
Slack
Staff Software Engineer
Renaud Bourassa
Slack
Staff Software Engineer
Renaud Bourassa is a Staff Software Engineer on Slack’s Search and Discovery team, where he works on machine learning systems that help users find the most relevant information. Prior to Slack, Renaud worked at Google where he built systems to detect place visits from user location data. Renaud holds a degree in Software Engineering from the University […]
Niels Bantilan
Talkspace
Machine Learning Engineer
Niels Bantilan
Talkspace
Machine Learning Engineer
Niels is a machine learning engineer at Talkspace, where he works with data scientists, clinicians, and product managers to build NLP-powered tools that enhance asynchronous talk therapy. His current work at Talkspace centers around client-therapist matching and early detection and continuous monitoring systems for acute mental health conditions. He holds a Masters in Public Health […]
Sandhya Prabhakaran
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Sandhya Prabhakaran
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Dr. Sandhya Prabhakaran is a Research Scientist at Moffitt Cancer Centre, Florida. Before that she was a Research Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre and Columbia University. Her Ph.D. in Computer Science is from University of Basel and her Masters in Intelligent Systems (Robotics) is from University of Edinburgh. Her research deals with developing […]
Amir Sadoughi
Amazon Web Services
Senior Software Development Engineer
Amir Sadoughi
Amazon Web Services
Senior Software Development Engineer
Amir Sadoughi is a Senior Software Development Engineer in the Amazon AI Labs group, working on Amazon SageMaker algorithms. He is passionate about technologies at the intersection of distributed systems and machine learning.
Roy Lowrance
7 Chord Inc.
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder
Roy Lowrance
7 Chord Inc.
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder
Roy is a visionary technologist and AI researcher, as well as the brain behind BondDroid TM. Former CTO of Capital One and Reuters, he has designed and led the development of the Center for Data Science at NYU. He wrote his PhD in Machine Learning on the topic of Predicting the Market Value of Single-Family […]
Madalina Fiterau
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Assistant Professor
Madalina Fiterau
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Assistant Professor
Madalina Fiterau is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst. She has completed a PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University (Fall 2015), and a Postdoc at Stanford University (Fall 2018). Madalina is currently expanding her research on interpretable models, in part by applying deep learning to […]
Rishabh Mehrotra
Spotify Research
Senior Research Scientist
Rishabh Mehrotra
Spotify Research
Senior Research Scientist
Rishabh Mehrotra is a Senior Research Scientist at Spotify Research in London. He obtained his PhD in the field of Machine Learning and Information Retrieval from University College London where he was partially supported by a Google Research Award. His PhD research focused on inference of search tasks from query logs and their applications. His […]
Liliana Cruz-Lopez
Columbia University
Liliana Cruz-Lopez
Columbia University
Liliana is a graduate student in the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. Her areas of interest are applied Machine Learning including Reinforcement and Deep Learning for a variety of industry domains including healthcare, smarter cities and financial engineering. She is passionate about exploring how such data driven analysis could make world a better place. […]
Esperanza Lopéz Aguilera
Kx
Machine Learning Engineer
Esperanza Lopéz Aguilera
Kx
Machine Learning Engineer
Esperanza López Aguilera works in the Kx machine learning team on ML projects that use kdb+ for time-series analytics including for streaming IoT data, precision manufacturing, space analytics, and telecommunications. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from the Universidad de Granada, Spain and a Master’s Degree in Big Data Analytics from the Universidad Carlos […]
Emily Pitler
Google AI
Staff Research Scientist
Emily Pitler
Google AI
Staff Research Scientist
Emily is a staff research scientist at Google AI in NYC. Emily‘s research focus is natural language understanding. Emily leads a team of researchers and engineers (spread across NYC, Mountain View, and San Francisco) working on making models for language understanding more robust. Emily received her PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 and her […]
Neel Sundaresan
Microsoft Cloud and AI Division
Partner Director
Neel Sundaresan
Microsoft Cloud and AI Division
Partner Director
Neel Sundaresan is a Partner Director at Microsoft Cloud and AI Division where he leads projects in infusing AI into software development. Prior to Microsoft he was the head of eBay Research Labs and eBay Data Labs. He was also a research manager at IBM research and was a founding CTO of a CRM company. […]
Anna Choromanska
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Anna Choromanska
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor Anna Choromanska did her Post-Doctoral studies in the Computer Science Department at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in NYU and joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Spring 2017 as an Assistant Professor. She is affiliated with the NYU Center for Data Science. Prof. Choromanska’s research […]
Johann Schleier-Smith
if(we),
Co-Founder and CTO
Johann Schleier-Smith
if(we),
Co-Founder and CTO
Johann Schleier-Smith is Co-Founder and CTO at if(we), the social network for meeting new people. Under Johann’s leadership, if(we) has produced highly scalable web and mobile products with its platform supporting 300 million users in over 200 countries. With an interest in machine learning, data science, analytics and software development and a passion for recommender […]
Margaret Mitchell
Google’s Research & Machine Intelligence group
Senior Research Scientist
Margaret Mitchell
Google’s Research & Machine Intelligence group
Senior Research Scientist
Margaret Mitchell is the Senior Research Scientist in Google’s Research & Machine Intelligence group, working on advancing artificial intelligence towards positive goals. She works on vision-language and grounded language generation, focusing on how to help computers communicate based on what they can process. Her work combines computer vision, natural language processing, social media, many statistical […]
Mark Zangari
Quantellia
CEO
Mark Zangari
Quantellia
CEO
As Quantellia’s CEO, Mark Zangari led design and development of the company’s award-winning World Modeler platform for decision intelligence. He was formerly CTO for SPATIALinfo, Inc., where he launched the company’s US operations and growth into a leading provider of network modeling solutions for the telecommunications and utilities sectors. In addition to his management experience, […]
Mischa Bilenko
Microsoft
Principal Researcher
Mischa Bilenko
Microsoft
Principal Researcher
Misha Bilenko leads the Machine Learning Algorithms team in Cloud+Enterprise division of Microsoft, working on a broad range of ML algorithms and systems for Azure Machine Learning and other product groups. Before that, he spent seven years in the Machine Learning Group in Microsoft Research, which he joined after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science […]
Nikhil Garg
Quora
Engineering Manager
Nikhil Garg
Quora
Engineering Manager
Nikhil Garg is an engineering manager at Quora where is leading two teams – one focused on building Quora’s ML platform to support company-wide ML innovation and productization and the other focused on building ML/NLP systems to understand the quality of Quora’s content. He is very interested in distributed systems and product design in addition […]
Samantha Kleinberg
Stevens Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Samantha Kleinberg
Stevens Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Samantha Kleinberg is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in Computer Science from New York University in 2010 and was a Computing Innovation Fellow at Columbia University in the Department of Biomedical informatics from 2010-2012. She is the recipient of NSF CAREER and JSMF Complex Systems […]
Scott Clark
SigOpt
General Manager (Co-Founder & former CEO)
Scott Clark
SigOpt
General Manager (Co-Founder & former CEO)
Scott Clark is the co-founder, former CEO, and current general manager of SigOpt, acquired by Intel in November 2020. Scott leads SigOpt’s ongoing efforts to build a product and vision of an Intelligent Experimentation platform that accelerates and amplifies the impact of modelers everywhere. Scott has been applying optimal learning techniques in industry and academia […]
Scott Triglia
Yelp
Search and Data Mining Engineer
Scott Triglia
Yelp
Search and Data Mining Engineer
Scott Triglia is a Search and Data Mining Engineer at Yelp. He leads a team that uses machine learning to augment local search with a focus on automated data quality improvements. He was one of the engineers responsible for Yelp’s first deep foray into recommendation systems: the new mobile Nearby page. Prior to joining Yelp, […]
Steffen Rendle
Google
Research Scientist
Steffen Rendle
Google
Research Scientist
Steffen Rendle is a research scientist at Google. Previous to this, he was an assistant professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Steffen’s research interest is in large-scale machine learning using factorization models. His research received the best paper award at WWW 2010 and a best student paper award at WSDM 2010. Steffen has applied […]
Emmanouil Konstantinos Antonakakis
Georgia Tech
Assistant Professor of Computer Systems and Software
Emmanouil Konstantinos Antonakakis
Georgia Tech
Assistant Professor of Computer Systems and Software
Manos Antonakakis received his engineering diploma in 2004 from the University of the Aegean, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering. From November 2004 up to July 2006, he was working as a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST-DoC), in the area of wireless ad hoc network security, at the […]
David Talby
Pacific AI
CTO
David Talby
Pacific AI
CTO
David Talby is a chief technology officer at Pacific AI, helping fast-growing companies apply big data and data science techniques to solve real-world problems in healthcare, life science, and related fields. David has extensive experience in building and operating web-scale data science and business platforms, as well as building world-class, Agile, distributed teams. Previously, he […]
Pek Lum
Ayasdi
Chief Data Science
Pek Lum
Ayasdi
Chief Data Science
Pek Lum leads Ayasdi’s products and solutions team. After more than a decade in the life sciences industry, Pek has the passion to help find a cure to cancer and other diseases in her lifetime, and believes that Ayasdi’s technology may help solve these difficult problems. Pek was trained in molecular genetics and cell biology […]
Suxin Guo
eBay
Researcher
Suxin Guo
eBay
Researcher
Suxin Guo received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2015. She is an applied researcher in the Traffic Science team at eBay Inc. Her research interests include machine learning, data mining and information retrieval, with a focus on paid internet marketing.
Matineh Shanker
Microsoft
Artificial Intelligence Scientist
Matineh Shanker
Microsoft
Artificial Intelligence Scientist
Matineh Shaker is an Artificial Intelligence Scientist at Bonsai in Berkeley, CA, where she builds machine learning, reinforcement learning, and deep learning tools and algorithms for general purpose intelligent systems. She was previously a Machine Learning Researcher at Geometric Intelligence, Data Science Fellow at Insight Data Science, Predoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School. She received […]
Mayur Thakur
Goldman Sachs
Data Analytics Group, Global Compliance Division
Mayur Thakur
Goldman Sachs
Data Analytics Group, Global Compliance Division
Mayur is head of the Data Analytics Group in the Global Compliance Division. He joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2014. Prior to joining the firm, Mayur worked at Google, where he designed search algorithms for more than seven years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of […]
Michal Malohlava
h2o.ai
Software Engineer
Michal Malohlava
h2o.ai
Software Engineer
Michal is a geek, developer, Java, Linux, programming languages enthusiast developing software for over 10 years. He obtained PhD from the Charles University in Prague in 2012 and post-doc at Purdue University. During his studies he was interested in construction of not only distributed but also embedded and real-time component-based systems using model-driven methods and […]
Parikshit Ram
Skytree
Machine Learning Engineer
Parikshit Ram
Skytree
Machine Learning Engineer
Parikshit Ram is a member of the technical staff at the machine learning startup Skytree (www.skytree.net) where he develops enterprise grade machine learning algorithms. Prior to this, Pari completed his doctorate in Computer Science at Georgia Tech in the School of Computational Science and Engineering where he was a member of the FASTlab and focused […]
Sergey Razin
SIOS Technology
CTO
Sergey Razin
SIOS Technology
CTO
As CTO, Sergey is responsible for driving product strategy and innovation at SIOS Technology Corp. A noted authority in advanced analytics and machine learning, Sergey pioneered the application of these technologies in the areas of IT security, media, and speech recognition. He is currently leading the development of innovative solutions based on these technologies that […]
Grishma Jena
IBM
Director, Analytics Engineering
Grishma Jena
IBM
Director, Analytics Engineering
Grishma is a Cognitive Software Engineer with the Data Science for Marketing team at IBM Watson. She earned her Masters in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. She was recently a mentor for the non-profit AI4ALL’s AI Project Fellowship where she guided a group […]
Srividya Kannan Ramachandran
Srividya Kannan Ramachandran currently works in Marketing Science at Facebook. Her prior roles involve leading a data science team at Digitas and building the data science practice within marketing at Level 3 Communications. Srividya is one of the pioneers in the synthetic art movement and is represented by two art galleries in the Chelsea art […]
Mike Tamir
Susquehanna International Group/UC Berkeley
Chief ML Scientist
Mike Tamir
Susquehanna International Group/UC Berkeley
Chief ML Scientist
Mike serves as Chief ML Scientist and Head of Machine Learning for SIG, UC Berkeley Data Science faculty, and Director of Phronesis ML Labs. He has led teams of Data Scientists in the bay area including roles as Head of Data Science at Uber ATG, and CSO for Galvanize where he founded the galvanizeU-UNH Masters […]
Jerry Talton
Carta
Director of Data & Machine Learning
Jerry Talton
Carta
Director of Data & Machine Learning
Jerry Talton is the Director of Data & Machine Learning at Carta, where he leads the company’s efforts to operationalize the ownership graph. Prior to joining Carta, he managed the Machine Learning Services team in Slack’s Search, Learning, & Intelligence group in Manhattan, and was the founder and CEO of Apropose, a data-driven design startup […]