AI Master Group

In this episode of the AI Master Group Podcast, Raghav Ram, PhD, describes an orchestration layer that gives enterprises simultaneous access 40 or more LLMs. Instead of relying on a single language model, the platform evaluates every user query in real time, selects the most capable 4-5 models for that task, and fuses their results into a strongest, enterprise-grade response. The system also prese...

Jasmeet is the VP, Decision Science Analytics at Truist, and is also the current winner of the Rising Star in Data and Analytics award, at the CDAO Conference in Boston. This episode is an opportunity to look behind the curtain, getting a detailed view of the business and volunteer profile of a top award winner in our industry. Also, near the end of the episode, Jasmeet describes an approach for e...

Michael holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a Senior Fellow at Wharton (Artificial Intelligence and Analysis for Business). He's also the president of Advanced Analytics, which is a consultancy that he founded. In this episode, Michael describes various risks and opportunities associated with the growing adoption of AI tools. In particular, he describes a scenario...

Nachiket is the Global Head, Data & Analytics Engineering at Wayfair. In that role, he spearheaded the company's global implementation of data mesh. In this episode, Nachiket describes the four pillars of data mesh, and in doing so, he shares a rare front-line view of client-side operations involving data governance, including rich detail about how data mesh is implemented within an enterprise-cla...

Zach is the Senior Director, Head of AI, Data Science and Analytics at Fortune Brands, a portfolio of brands that includes names like Yale, Master Lock, SentrySafe, Moen faucets, House of Rohl and Therma ‑ Tru, among others. In this episode, Zach describes his journey from a PhD in Mathematics with an MBA, to the head of AI at Fortune Brands. One project he describes is a solution that detects res...

Pavel holds two gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze on Kaggle. He's also the author of several well-known libraries, including one that has about 20,000 stars on GitHub. Currently, he's a member of the open source engineering team at Hugging Face. This episode covers Pavel's journey from growing up in a small town in Russia, to becoming a Kaggle competition master and computer vision e...

This episode features a conversation with Max Mozgovoy, co-founder of VoxDiscover, which plans to use Gen AI to interview customers for user experience (UX) research done by app developers, or for customer lifecycle research, to build customer journey maps or personas, or to identify which features to add or change for the next version of product or service.  The underlying idea of VoxDiscover is...

With a PhD in machine learning and a specialization in computer vision, Marwa has done deep learning projects across several industries and is currently at Alohi, a Switzerland-based startup with 4 million users of document solutions like Sign. Plus, Fax. Plus and Scan. Plus. In this episode, she describes her journey from formal studies to hands-on work in industry, to her present role as a prima...

Iqbal holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, with a specialization in computer algorithms and graph theory. He is currently the Research Data Science Director at the University of Arizona. Aside from his innovative achievement in creating a knowledge map for the university (kmap.arizona.edu), he has one of the most remarkable and inspiring stories you'll ever hear about overcoming disadv...

Jeffrey is one of those rare people who knew exactly what he wanted to do from an early age: Use mathematics to solve business problems. After earning his Masters Degree in Statistics from the University of Chicago, he went on to do high-impact analytics work in banking, retail and telco, holding senior leadership positions at top companies like Sally Beauty, HSN, AT&T and Bloomin' Brands. Current...

Tapan is the Executive Director of Marketing Sciences at OMD. This episode is a very thorough compendium of marketing science principles and practices, as applied to decisions about paid media. Topics include: •    Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) vs Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) vs experiments, including how to use each and for what purpose •    KPIs: Incremental sales vs top-of-funnel metrics like a...

With a specialization in 3D deep learning, Aida is doing ground-breaking work related to 3D simulations. In this episode, she first describes why meshes or point clouds are computationally-expensive for simulating changes to shapes. She then describes why "implicit fields" are much more efficient for this, as described in the widely-cited "DeepSDF paper." Next she describes a special-case problem:...

Nikhil is the Data Science Director at Sally Beauty Holdings, which is a $3.7 billion specialty retailer, with more than 10,000 products sold through over 4,000 stores, as well as online. Prior to his current role, Nikhil held a senior leadership role at Harman International, working with panel data from top CPG brands like P&G, Unilever and Kraft. In this episode, Nikhil describes his 19-year jou...

Victor (Viko) Perrine is the Global Director of New Growth Initiatives at Circle K. Prior to that, he's held senior leadership roles at Delek US Holdings and at UGP Inc.  In this episode, Viko describes a major new initiative called Lift that's unique to Circle K, which just launched in Europe, plus future development plans for that. Building on this, he describes the day-to-day for a global innov...

Ray is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Valhalla AI Solutions. Prior to that, he held senior leadership roles at the Advertising Research Foundation, at the Institute for Experiential AI, and at comScore. In this episode, Ray discusses challenges associates with promoting meaningful AI literacy in business, starting with fundamental questions, like what is "AI literacy" exactly? (Is it mere...

Ivan is an Associate VP of Delivery at Robosoft Technologies. His team does application development, engineering and QA for US clients, including web (HTML, CSS), mobile (Android, iOS, Samsung, LG) and streaming, including Roku TV. In this episode, Ivan shares what he learned in his experiments over the past year using Gen AI to improve the efficiency and quality of code produced by his 300-member...

Sam is the Director of Business Strategy, Solutions & Analytics at the Boston Bruins & TD Garden. Prior to that, he directed strategy and analytics for the Arizona Coyotes, and at VaynerMedia. In this episode, Sam sheds light on the world of analytics and business strategy for sports teams, including the differences in strategy and focus for teams vs at the league level. He also talks about the si...

Celia is the Chief Innovation Officer at Bits In Glass (BIG), a top Canadian IT consulting firm. Prior to that, she held senior leadership roles at AltaML and at Deloitte Canada. Celia was recognized as the AI Innovator of the Year, by Women in AI. In this episode, Celia shares insights from trends she's seen in her recent work involving intelligent automation of business processes at scale. A key...

Andrei holds a PhD in Computer Science, and is the Director of Search and the AI Lab at Neuron7. Prior to that, he was the VP Engineering and AI at Zillow. He's also held key leadership roles at Google, Apple, Walmart and eBay. In this episode, Andrei shares insights and advice, based on his experience deploying large-scale, high-load NLP and search applications to billions of customers (5 billion...

Dave is a fractional CTO and DevOps engineer with over 25 years of experience in systems and software engineering. He's the President and Senior Solutions Architect of Stern DevOps Group, which is a consultancy focused on early stage companies. He's also the author of a new book: Hackproof Your Startup, and that book is a key topic of the show. In this episode, Dave discusses IT and AI security fo...

Shawn is the Global VP of Solutions at FirstHive, which is a customer data platform. Prior to that, he held senior leadership roles at Capgemini, Silicon Valley Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Clorox, Northwestern Mutual and SC Johnson. He is also an advisory board member of the Customer Data Platform (CDP) Institute. In this conversation, Shawn describes various roadblocks to transformation in large organi...

Jodi is the VP of Data Science at Cox Automotive, a company that has a diverse portfolio of 17 brands that encompass digital products like Kelley Blue Book and Autotrader, as well as various kinds of physical services – all of which are supported by about 70 in-house data scientists and ML engineers. In this conversation, Jodi describes her AI initiatives as investments, managed in a way that's si...

Ramsu holds a PhD in Machine Learning, and is the Head of R&D at solus.ai, which powers Segment of One personalization. Roles prior to that included Senior Scientist at GE Global Research, and Principal at Sabre Airline Solutions, where he developed some of the original algorithms. Ramsu shares highlights of his journey in AI, with particular focus on personalization in marketing, with insights ab...

This inaugural episode features a very special guest: My father! . . . better known to the rest of the world as G. Edward Griffin, historian, futurist and author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, which sold more than a million copies. Mr. Griffin would be the first one to point out that he's not an expert on AI, but this episode nonetheless found an area of intersection between his life work and...

The AI Master Group podcast with Jim Griffin is a place to meet the people who are creating the future of AI in their work today, featuring authors of recent papers, or people working with machine learning and AI in real-world applications. If you want a front row seat to the technology and craft of AI, you're in the right place.