Kerry Weinberg
League
VP Data
Kerry Weinberg
League
VP Data
Kerry Weinberg is the VP of Data at League, whose Health OS™ is powering the digital transformation of healthcare. She leads all data analytics, data science and data engineering efforts to enhance League’s FHIR-native data platform. Her team focuses on developing and deploying machine learning models that produce personalized recommendations to users on how they […]
Ankit Sirmorya
Amazon
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Ankit Sirmorya
Amazon
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Ankit has been awarded 40 under 40 Data Scientists Award by AnalyticsIndiaMagazine, a renowned data science publication. He is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon where he has worked on several ML initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. He has led the effort on building Multi-Variate-Testing(MVT) based applications for Amazon product pages to increase customer […]
Davit Buniatyan
Activeloop
CEO
Davit Buniatyan
Activeloop
CEO
David was first featured by TechCrunch at the age of 18. After completing his CompSci degree at UCL, he started his Ph.D. at Princeton University at 20. Davit is a recipient of the Gordon Wu Fellowship and AWS Machine Learning Research Award. His research involved reconstructing the connectome of the mouse brain. Trying to solve […]
Halim Abbas
Cognoa
Chief AI Officer
Halim Abbas
Cognoa
Chief AI Officer
Halim is a high tech innovator who spearheaded world-class data science projects at game changing techs like eBay and Teradata. Formally educated in Machine Learning, his professional expertise span Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Big Data. Halim has a proven track record of applying state of the art data science techniques across industry verticals […]
Timothy Spann
StreamNative
Developer Advocate
Timothy Spann
StreamNative
Developer Advocate
Tim Spann is a Developer Advocate for StreamNative. He works with StreamNative Cloud, Apache Pulsar, Apache Flink, Flink SQL, Apache NiFi, MiniFi, Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, Apache Spark, Big Data, the IoT, machine learning, and deep learning. Tim has over a decade of experience with the IoT, big data, distributed computing, messaging, streaming technologies, and Java […]
Cori Shen
Equifax
VP, Data Science and Analytics
Cori Shen
Equifax
VP, Data Science and Analytics
I am a machine learning/data science expert by training and data science leader with 15 years industry experience. I have led the data science teams to innovate and develop the machine learning and AI driven productions/solutions solving industry challenges and empower the profitable growth of our customers in different industries such as marketing, credit risk, […]
Jordan Volz
Continual
Director of Field Engineering
Jordan Volz
Continual
Director of Field Engineering
Jordan is the Director of Field Engineering for Continual, where he leads engineering and implementation of AI projects. Previously, he has worked in a variety of roles, from software engineering to data science, across a number of private and public companies: Cloudera, Dataiku, Epic, Autonomy. He specializes in Machine Learning, Big Data, and Cloud architectures.
Ana-Maria Istrate
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Research Scientist
Ana-Maria Istrate
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Research Scientist
Ana-Maria Istrate is a Research Scientist at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where she has primarily worked on recommendations, ranking, and text mining algorithms for Meta, a research tool for biomedical researchers. She has graduated from Stanford with a Bachelors’s Degree in Applied Math and a Masters Degree in Computer Science, the Artificial Intelligence track. She […]
Ryan Coffee
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Sr. Scientist -- LCLS SRD / PULSE
Ryan Coffee
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Sr. Scientist -- LCLS SRD / PULSE
Ryan’s expertise spans the fields of ultrafast and nonlinear optical methods, x-ray free-electron lasers and medical imaging and data analysis methods. He has spent the better part of the last decade co-designing machine learning methods that tightly integrate into the physical implementations of x-ray and optical detector systems with streaming data processing at the sensor […]
Harpreet Sahota
Comet
Data Scientist
Harpreet Sahota
Comet
Data Scientist
Harpreet is a thought leader in the Data Science space with over a decade of education, experience, and technical chops in this field – a data science unicorn with strong business acumen, statistical background, modelling capabilities, data engineering, and machine learning engineering know-hows who feels right at home both working with engineering teams to deploy […]
Sheng Zha
Amazon AI
Senior Applied Scientist
Sheng Zha
Amazon AI
Senior Applied Scientist
Sheng Zha is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon AI, a PPMC member of Apache MXNet (Incubating), maintainer of GluonNLP project, a steering committee member of ONNX, and a member of the Consortium for Python API Standards. His work focuses on the intersection of deep learning, natural language processing, and machine learning systems, with the […]
Navneet Rao
Thumbtack
Senior Engineering Manager
Navneet Rao
Thumbtack
Senior Engineering Manager
Navneet Rao is a senior engineering manager at Thumbtack, a late-stage Sequoia backed consumer facing marketplace for local services. His org is responsible for matching customers on Thumbtack to professionals & local businesses in their neighborhood using data science & machine learning. They work on challenges in areas like search, ranking & marketplace efficiency. Before […]
Shon Burton
HiringSolved
Founder & CEO
Shon Burton
HiringSolved
Founder & CEO
Shon Burton is the Founder and product visionary of HiringSolved, a leading Talent Intelligence company in the HR Tech industry. Shon is the designer of RAI, HiringSolved’s AI-based recruiting assistant, which has been called “Siri for recruiting” by the media. Mr. Burton is also the co-founder of MLconf – The Machine Learning Conference and conference.ai, two of the […]
Mary Grace Moesta
Databricks
Data Scientist
Mary Grace Moesta
Databricks
Data Scientist
Mary Grace Moesta is a data science consultant at Databricks. She’s been working in the big data and data science space for several years with opportunities to collaborate across several verticals, with majority of her work focused in the Retail and CPG space. Prior to Databricks, Mary Grace has been able to contribute to several […]
Romeo Kienzler
IBM CODAIT (Center for Open Source Data and AI Technologies)
Chief Data Scientist
Romeo Kienzler
IBM CODAIT (Center for Open Source Data and AI Technologies)
Chief Data Scientist
Romeo is a data scientist working for IBM and an advocate for ethical machine learning, transparency and privacy.
Alessya Visnjic
WhyLabs
CEO
Alessya Visnjic
WhyLabs
CEO
Alessya Visnjic is the CEO and co-founder of WhyLabs, the AI Observability company on a mission to build the interface between AI and human operators. Prior to WhyLabs, Alessya was a CTO-in-residence at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), where she evaluated commercial potential for the latest advancements in AI research. Earlier in her career, […]
Ravi Kondadadi
Optum Technology, part of UnitedHealth Group
Distinguished NLP Engineer
Ravi Kondadadi
Optum Technology, part of UnitedHealth Group
Distinguished NLP Engineer
Ravi Kondadadi is a distinguished NLP Engineer with Optum Technology, part of UnitedHealth Group. He has more than 20 years of experience in developing Natural Language Processing solutions. He has extensive experience in information extraction, text categorization, document clustering, topic modeling, summarization, and question answering. He is an expert in developing NLP solutions using machine […]
Gaurav Menghani
Google Research
Staff Software Engineer
Gaurav Menghani
Google Research
Staff Software Engineer
Gaurav Menghani is a Staff Software Engineer at Google Research where he leads several research projects aimed at optimizing large ML models for efficient training and inference on devices ranging from tiny microcontrollers to Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)-based servers. His work has positively impacted > 1 Billion of active Google users across YouTube, Cloud, Ads, […]
Patrick Hall
bnh.ai | George Washington University
Principal Scientist | Visiting Faculty
Patrick Hall
bnh.ai | George Washington University
Principal Scientist | Visiting Faculty
Patrick Hall is principal scientist at bnh.ai, a D.C.-based law firm focused on AI and data analytics. He also serves as visiting faculty at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB), where his teaching and research touch on data mining, machine learning, and the responsible use of these technologies. Among other academic and technology […]
Stefan Krawczyk
Stitch Fix
Manager Data Platform
Stefan Krawczyk
Stitch Fix
Manager Data Platform
Stefan loves the stimulus of working at the intersection of design, engineering, and data. He grew up in New Zealand, speaks Polish, and spent formative years at Stanford, LinkedIn, Nextdoor, and Idibon. Outside of work Stefan likes to 🏊, 🌮, 🍺, and ✈. Stefan currently works at Stitch Fix and leads the Model Lifecycle team […]
Anmol Suag
Blueshift
Data Scientist
Anmol Suag
Blueshift
Data Scientist
Anmol Suag is a Data Scientist at Blueshift, a leading SmartHub Customer Data Platform (CDP) that combines customer data, AI and omni-channel orchestration in an easy-to-use platform. Anmol has worked extensively on recommendation systems ranging from hybrid implicit matrix factorization, BERT-based content-filtering to Learning to Rank with pair-wise models. Anmol holds a MS in Computer […]
Shannon Hamilton
23andMe
Product Manager
Shannon Hamilton
23andMe
Product Manager
Shannon Hamilton is a Product Manager at 23andMe, where she is focused on the building of machine learning infrastructure to power genetic discoveries used in in-app product features, research and drug discovery at the company. Shannon has worked as both a Product Manager and Data Scientist within the healthcare space for the last 8 years. […]
Yin Aphinyanaphongs
NYU Langone Health
Director of Operational Data Science and Machine Learning
Yin Aphinyanaphongs
NYU Langone Health
Director of Operational Data Science and Machine Learning
Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs, MD, PhD (Predictive Analytics Team Lead) is a physician scientist in the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health in New York City. Academically, he is an assistant professor and his lab focuses on novel applications of machine learning to clinical problems and […]
Joseph Ross
Splunk
Principal Data Scientist
Joseph Ross
Splunk
Principal Data Scientist
Joe Ross holds a PhD in mathematics from Columbia University and was a researcher and instructor in pure mathematics, most recently at the University of Southern California. He has given more than 30 talks about his research at conferences and universities throughout the world, and has 10 publications in peer-reviewed mathematics/statistics journals. Joe has worked […]
Jon Krohn
Nebula.io
Chief Data Scientist
Jon Krohn
Nebula.io
Chief Data Scientist
Jon Krohn is Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning startup Nebula.io. He presents an acclaimed series of tutorials published by Addison-Wesley, including Deep Learning with TensorFlow and Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing. Jon teaches his deep learning curriculum in-classroom at the New York City Data Science Academy and guest lectures at Columbia University. […]
Sophie Watson
Red Hat
Senior Data Scientist
Sophie Watson
Red Hat
Senior Data Scientist
Sophie is a Senior Data Scientist at Red Hat, where she develops tooling for reproducible machine learning workflows and helps customers build machine learning systems in the hybrid cloud. Sophie holds a PhD in Bayesian statistics.
John Whaley
Inception Studio
Founder
John Whaley
Inception Studio
Founder
John Whaley is Adjunct Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University and the Founder of Inception Studio. He was previously the Founder/CEO of UnifyID and Founder/CTO of Moka5. He is a renowned expert in machine learning and digital security with over 15 years of experience in the field. Before that, he worked at IBM’s T.J. […]
Chris Kachris
InAccel
CEO
Chris Kachris
InAccel
CEO
Christoforos is the founder and CEO of InAccel that helps companies speedup their applications using hardware accelerators (FPGAs) in the cloud or on-prem. He is the editor of the book Hardware Accelerators in Data Centers. He has over 15 years of experience on FPGAs (reconfigurable computing), digital design, embedded systems (SoCs), and HW/SW co-design for […]
Stacey Svetlichnaya
Weights & Biases
Deep Learning Engineer
Stacey Svetlichnaya
Weights & Biases
Deep Learning Engineer
Stacey Svetlichnaya is a deep learning engineer at Weights & Biases, building developer tools for accessibility, transparency, and collaboration in deep learning. Her research in computer vision and natural language processing includes image aesthetic quality and style classification, object recognition, photo caption generation, and language modeling for emoji. She has worked extensively on image search, […]
Marcos Sainz
Returnly Technologies, Inc.
CTO & VP Engineering
Marcos Sainz
Returnly Technologies, Inc.
CTO & VP Engineering
Software Eng. with 20+ years of experience, 10+ years building ML products and leading Data Science teams. Formerly Machine Learning Architect / Lead ML Engineer @ Glassdoor and Data Science Lead @ ModCloth.
Kriti Kohli
IBM
Principal Data Scientist
Kriti Kohli
IBM
Principal Data Scientist
Kriti Kohli is a Principal Data Scientist and Senior Manager, Data Science in the AI Workflows team at IBM. Kriti leads a team of data scientists and strategy consultants delivering cutting edge AI to the enterprise. Kriti has over 10+ years of experience as a machine learning practitioner in industry applications and production deployments of […]
Vanessa Klotzman
UC Irvine
PhD Student
Vanessa Klotzman
UC Irvine
PhD Student
Vanessa Ilana Klotzman is a first year PhD student at the University of California, Irvine in Software Engineering. Vanessa comes from industry experience from working in Software Development and Data Science. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and a Minor in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge. She continued at Northridge […]
Isaac Joseph
Affirm
Software Engineer
Isaac Joseph
Affirm
Software Engineer
Isaac is a software engineer at Affirm where he productionizes ML lending models and supporting infrastructure. He is passionate about using ML to produce tangible, worthwhile outcomes by balancing theory and implementation. He studied computer science & engineering at MIT for his B.S. and computational biology at UC Berkeley for his Ph.D. His dissertation was […]
Dr. Cynthia Rudin
Duke University
Professor of Computer Science
Dr. Cynthia Rudin
Duke University
Professor of Computer Science
Cynthia Rudin is a professor of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and statistical science at Duke University, and directs the Prediction Analysis Lab, whose main focus is in interpretable machine learning. She is also an associate director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI). Previously, Prof. Rudin held positions at MIT, Columbia, […]
Paul Barba
Lexalytics
Chief Scientist
Paul Barba
Lexalytics
Chief Scientist
Paul Barba is the Chief Scientist of Lexalytics, where he is focused on applying force multiplying technologies to solve artificial intelligence-related challenges and drive innovation in AI even further. Paul has years of experience developing, architecting, researching and generally thinking about AI/machine learning, text analytics and natural language processing (NLP) software. He has been working […]
Cristine Marsh
Affirm
Data Scientist
Cristine Marsh
Affirm
Data Scientist
Cristine Marsh is a data scientist on the Data Science fraud team at Affirm. She is currently working on models to prevent fraud. Cristine is passionate about fair and explainable ML and using data science to improve lives.