Austrian Artificial Intelligence Podcast

# Intro Today on the show I have the pleasure to talk to Shiva Ghahremani, Co-founder and CEO of Asigmo Data Science. Asigmo is a teaching company that has developed a data science Bootcamp to jump-start your career in Data Science. In the interview, we talk about the structure of the Bootcamp and the content of the syllabus. We further discuss the role of boot camps in the wide area of online edu...

# Summary Yasin is a first year PhD Student working on improving information retrieval systems as part the European DOSSIER project. Where he is investigating new ways to improve the relevance of search results presented by interactive learning systems. In particular his work focuses on ways to model, leverage and measure the user's Knowledge Gap; which is the difference between a user's prior und...

# Intro Carina Zehetmaier, CEO and Co-Founder of Taxtastic an Austrian AI Startup that develops small business and consumer solutions for income tax declaration. We cover multiple topics on today's show. Starting out with talking about the technical challenges, Carina and her Team are facing when digitizing receipts. Not only how they make use of methods from image analysis in order to extract the...

# Intro Michael is the co-founder and director of SO Digital Recruitment focusing on data positions in the DACH region, with a special focus on Austria. During the Interview, Michael is looking back at 2021 from a recruiter's perspective on what skills and profiles have been in demand, and what is in decline. We are talking about the long-term effect of COVID on companies hiring strategies and how...

# Intro Resul Akay is the Chief Data Scientist at Quantics.io, where he is developing a platform to enable predictive modeling for supply chain optimization. Enabling customers from different industries and different steps of their supply chain, to accurately predict demand and optimize their supplies accordingly. In the interview Resul explains to us some of the main challenges of supply chain op...

# Intro Noah Weber is the Chief Technology offer at Celeris Therapeutics. Celeris is discovering candidates for targeted protein degradation in silico using Artificial Intelligence, to accelerate drug discovery and find cures for diseases like Alzheimer's. In the first part of the show, he shares his experience on the importance of good MLOps practices and the importance of cloud solutions for the...

Taylor Peer is currently working as the Director of Data Science at Cortical.io, a Viennese AI company developing business solutions for information extraction and processing using Natural Language Understanding. On the show we are talking about Semantic Folding, the core technology developed by Cortical.io that is enabling all their business products, and how the company evolved from a technology...

# Intro Jelena Milosevic is currently working as a Data Scientist focusing on the application of machine learning in embedded devices in industrial settings. On the show we are going to talk about the challenges in developing ML models for mobile and Embedded devices like limited compute and power. In addition we are touching on several information security aspects for such ML use cases. # Referen...

# Intro Marco Mondelli is a group leader at the IST Austrian, focusing on theoretical machine learning and in particular on properties and behaviour of gradient descent methods when used to train overparameterized deep neural networks. In this interview Marco describes his reasons to start a theoretical machine learning research Group at the IST Austria and several aspects of the IST PhD program....

Julia is a researcher in the E-Commerce Group at the TU Vienna, focusing on the analysis of social networks. In the first part of the interview, Julia will describe the motivations and possibilities of performing network analysis on social networks. She will give examples of such analysis from the literature, as well as from her own research. In the second part of the interview, Julia will talk ab...

Summary Rania has a background in theoretical mathematics and has focused her work in recent years as a Data Scientists on natural language understanding and social media monitoring. Today on the show she will share her experience of organising Data4Good, an NGO organisation that is bringing together DataScientists and other NGO's on a voluntary bases in order to support different social projects....

Summary Christoph is the Chief Operation Officer and one of the co-founders of Image Biopsy Labs. IB Labs, is a Viennese startup that is developing a modular AI platform to accelerate the work of radiologists ensuring high precision, transparency and control. On the interview, Christoph is sharing his experience on the most important aspects of creating an AI startup for safety critical applicatio...

Summary In this episode, Linda Anderson a computational Linguistic by training and founder of the AI startup "Artificial Researcher" is talking about the history and challenges of domain specific text mining. We are discussing why many of the typical DL driven approaches fail on domain specific text mining applications and how her company "Artificial Researcher" is coping with those challenges. Re...

In this episode, Frank is sharing his experience in teaching about AI over the years at different institutions to students from all backgrounds, ranging from businesses focused questions about digitalisation to CEO's, or guiding domain experts in their first experiences in areas of data science, to software developers about the implementation of ML algorithms and methods. In the second part of the...

What kind of AI related services does azure cloud offer? What are some common reasons companies move into the cloud, and what are common first mistakes that companies encounter?  If those are questions that interest you, then the first part of the interview is for you! In the second part of the interview, Sanja talks about the global initiative "Women in AI" that she as the Vienna Lead is sup...

What are the challenges hiring for an AI startups? How do you hire today, but be prepared for continously changing requirements of tomorrow? Or how do you convince the HR department of your talent and motivation? If those questions have crossed your mint recently, than this episode with Tanja Zinkl, hiring for the successful Austrian AI company Kaleido, is for you! References: Tanja Zinkl : https:...

Have you ever been excited to browse the other side of the world on google earth? Just to be disappointed by the poor quality of the 3d reconstructions, and the limited level of detail?  The Graz based AI company blackshark.ai has you covered! In todays interview, Stefan Habenschuss, leading machine learning at blackshark.ai is explaining their massive scalable aerial image segmentation syste...

The field of AI and Machine learning is moving with an ever increasing pace, and for most small and medium companies that cannot afford their own research labs, keeping up new scientific papers and software frameworks is almost impossible. Today on the show I interview Lukas Fischer who is the Research Manager of the Data Science branch of the Software Competence Center Hagenberg that is here to h...

On the show today, I have the pleasure to talk to Raphael Mitsch, currently working as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at the Austrian AI consultancy enliteAI. Are you curious to learn, what AI consultancy looks like in practice, and what skills are required to be successful as a consultant? Or are you interested to hear about the challenges and opportunities of reinforcement learning in real w...

On the show today, I have the pleasure to talk to Jillian Augustine. Jillian is currently working as a Data Scientist in the Digital Excellence Team of the international paper and packaging manufacturer Mondi, but has received your Phd in Molecular Biology. On the show we are discussing Jillian experience working in academia and private industry. She is contrasting the mindset prominent on both si...

Summary Today on the show, we have Frank Fichtenmueller. Frank is currently working as a Senior Solution architect, at Crayon's AI Center of Excellence; here in Vienna, where he is developing distributed systems at scale that apply the power of Machine Learning to solve real world problems and enable new business cases. Frank has been in AI, for more than a decade now, going through many ups and d...

Summary On this episode of the Austrian AI Podcast, we have the pleasure to interview Ivona Vlčková, a young Data Scientist working at the Viennese AI startup Mostly.ai.  Ivona shares her experience working as a Data Scientists at a Startup with about 30 people and contrasts it with her experience working at an international company with thousands of employees. We discuss her reasons to move...

Welcome to the Austrian AI Podcast! I am your host, Manuel Pasieka and I am excited to share with you on this Podcast my passion for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. I will bring onto the show, experts from academia and privat industry, hobbyists from none profit organisations, and decision makers in public institutions to talk with them about the possibilities and poten...