AI Stories

Our guest today is Christof Henkel, Senior Deep Learning Data Scientist at NVIDIA and world number 1 on Kaggle: a competitive machine learning platform. In our conversation, we first discuss Christof's PhD in mathematics and talk about the importance of maths in a Data Science career. Christof then explains how he started on Kaggle and how he progressed on the platform to become the world num...

Our guest today is Davis Blalock, Research Scientist and first employee of Mosaic ML; a startup which got recently acquired by Databricks for an astonishing $1.3 billion. In our conversation, we first talk about Davis' PhD at MIT and his research on making algorithms more efficient. Davis then explains how and why he joined Mosaic and shares the story behind the company. He dives into the pro...

Our guest today is Kellin Pelrine, Research Scientist at FAR AI and Doctoral Researcher at the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (MILA). In our conversation, Kellin first explains how he defeated a superhuman Go-playing AI engine named KataGo 14 games to 1. We talk about KataGo’s weaknesses and discuss how Kellin managed to identify them using Reinforcement Learning. In the second part of t...

Our guest today is Chanuki Seresinhe, head of Data Science at Zoopla,   a company which provides millions of users with access to properties for sale and for rent. In our conversation, we first talk about Chanuki’s PhD where she used machine learning to identify relationships between beautiful places and happiness. We then dive into Data Science at Zoopla and talk about Generative AI and other exc...

Our guest today is Rémi Ounadjela, Senior Data Science Manager at TikTok and ex-Data Scientist at Google and Amazon.  During the first part of our conversation, Rémi talks about his experience working on shipment optimisation at Amazon and on Data Science for risk and safety at TikTok.  During the second part, we discuss the differences between working as a Data Scientist at TikTok, Google and Ama...

Our guest today is Barr Moses, Co-Founder & CEO of Monte Carlo, the first end-to-end data observability platform.  In our conversation, we first talk about how Barr got into the field and the early influence of her parents. Barr shares her previous experiences working with data in the Israeli Army and working on data strategy at Bain.  We then dig into Monte Carlo and the new field of DataOps...

Our guest today is Parul Pandey, Principal Data Scientist at H2O.ai, Kaggle Grandmaster (notebooks) & book author of “Machine Learning for High Risk Applications”.  In our conversation, we first dig into Kaggle. Parul explains how she became a Grandmaster, shares tips about data analysis and discusses the pros of learning on Kaggle.  The second part of the episode is around machine learning fo...

Our guest today is Marijn Markus, Managing Data Scientist at Capgemini.  In our conversation, we first talk about data analysis to model and visualise the spread of Ebola. We then dig into crime analysis back to when Marijn worked with the police in the Netherlands. Marijn also shares his thoughts on the importance of causal inference and the value that humans can add to AI algorithms.  We then ex...

Our guest today is Louis Bouchard, founder of the What’s AI Youtube channel & Towards AI. Louis is also a PhD student at the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Mila) founded by Yoshua Bengio. In our conversation, Louis first talks about What’s AI and explains how and why he launched his own Youtube channel. We then explore the world of Research and AI Algorithms. We discuss some of the...

Our guest today is Miguel Fierro, Lead Data Scientist at Microsoft working in the personalisation team.  In our conversation, we first dig into Miguel’s PhD in robotics and the connection between robotics and AI.  Miguel then shares a few stories on reverse learning to learn faster, how to switch fields, taking initiatives, the importance of diversity and the power of practical knowledge. We final...

Our guest today is Greg Coquillo, Technology Manager at Amazon and startup investor. Greg is also a LinkedIn Top Voice in Technology & Innovation (2021) and Data Science & AI (2020). In our conversation, Greg first explains how he got into the field and why he is so excited about working in the AI space. He also shares his view on Data Science and the skills required to become a great Data...

Our guest today is Mike Wimmer, an incredible 14 year old kid who is already the CEO of two companies: Next Era Innovation and Reflect Social.  In our conversation, we first talk about Mike’s childhood from starting to code at only 5 years old to his experience at school.  We then discuss his first company, Next Era Innovation, which he founded at 7. Mike shares a few projects that he worked on in...

Our guest today is Adam Sroka, Founder and Director at Hypercube Consulting. In our conversation, Adam first explains how he got into the field. He then shares management mistakes and advice from his experience at Incremental Group where he transitioned from Senior Data Scientist to Data & AI Director. We then dig into ML applied to the energy sector and talk about Adam's new company: Hyp...

Our guest today is Kyle Kranen, Senior Deep Learning Algorithm Engineer at Nvidia. In our conversation, Kyle first explains how he got into the field and talks about his internship at Condati where he worked on Data Science and visualisation applied to marketing. We then dig into deep learning and dive into Kyle’s first project at Nvidia, working with Mask R-CNN in the deep learning algorithm team...

Our guest today is Jess Ramos, Senior Data Analyst at Crunchbase and LinkedIn Learning Instructor. In our conversation, Jess first talks about how she got into the field and her first analytics project.  We then dig into her experience at FormFree where Jess worked on tracking the performance of integration partners. We discuss the value that data analysts can bring to a business and share some ti...

Our guest today is Soledad Galli, Lead Data Scientist and Founder of Train In Data. In our conversation, we first talk about Soledad's transition from working as a research scientist in biology to working as a Data Scientist in industry. We then dig into Soledad's experiences at Zopa and LV= where she built machine learning algorithms for credit risk and fraud detection. We explore the c...

Our guest today is Santiago Valdarrama, Director of Computer Vision at Levatas and founder of Bnomial. In our conversation, we first talk about Santiago's transition from software engineering to the world of machine learning. He explains how he got into AI and why software engineering skills are important when working as a Data Scientist / ML engineer. We then dig into computer vision at Leva...

Our guest today is Damien Benveniste, CTO at Motivee and Ex Tech Lead at Meta. In our conversation, Damien first explains how he transitioned from a PhD in Physics to the world of AI and talks about the differences between machine learning in industry and doing a PhD. He also shares his experience getting laid off three times in a row and gives advice on how to do well in industry, how to choose t...

Our guest today is Marguerite Graveleau, Technical Product Manager at Iwoca; a Fintech company lending money to small and medium businesses; and Ex Data Scientist at Lyft, one of the main competitors of Uber. In our conversation, Marguerite first explains how she got into the field. We talk about her Master at Stanford and give advice on how to get a first job after university. We discuss the impo...

Our guest today is Aleksa Gordic, Research Engineer at Deepmind and founder of the AI Epiphany Youtube channel.  In our conversation, we first talk about Aleksa’s Bachelor in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Belgrade and then discuss his experience as a Software Engineer at Microsoft.  He then explains how he transitioned to the world of AI by doing courses, bootcamps and lear...

Our guest today is Smriti Mishra, applied AI and Data Science Researcher at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and ex Head of AI at Earthbanc. In our conversation, we first talk about Smriti’s career, how she transitioned from electrical engineering to the world of Data Science and AI and how she became passionate about healthcare and climate change. Smriti then describes her exper...

Our guest today is Joshua Starmer , Founder and CEO of StatQuest , a Youtube channel with over 700k subscribers which clearly explains complex statistics and machine learning methods. In our conversation, Josh first talks about his career: his PhD in Bioinformatics, how he got introduced to the concepts of Statistics and variation and how he learned more about it. We then explore StatQuest, how th...

Our guest today is Jan Xu, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Deep Render, a startup developing the next generation of compression technology using Deep Learning. This episode is a special one since Jan and I studied Civil Engineering at Imperial College London together between 2015 and 2019. In our conversation, we first talk about our bachelor degree at Imperial and how Jan made the transition...

Our guest today is Mark Freeman II, Senior Data Scientist at Humu and CEO of On the Mark Data.  In our conversation, Mark first talks about his Bachelor in Sociology and his Master at Stanford. He explains how he managed to get into Stanford despite having bad grades and describes how he got into the world of Statistics and AI.  We then discuss Data Science in Startups, the pros and cons of workin...

Our guest today is Rishabh Mehrotra, ex Tech Lead at Spotify and Director of Machine Learning at ShareChat. In our conversation, Rishabh first talks about his transition from working as an analyst at Goldman Sachs to his PhD at UCL where he worked on deep models for user understanding, knowledge discovery and decision optimization. We then explore Machine Learning at Spotify which Rishabh joined i...