Conversations on Applied AI

In this episode, Tyler Nigon shares with Justin Grammens his deep experience in production level agriculture and some of the cool ways AI is being applied to his field. Tyler is a Ph. D. Candidate in Land and Atmospheric Science at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Soil, Water, and Climate . Tyler is passionate about sustainable agricultural productivity. His research focuses on evaluati...

Super excited the share the conversation I had with Nicholas Heller . Nick is PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities . Nick's research focuses on the development and validation of clinical prediction models for risk stratification and treatment planning in genitourinary cancer, especially renal cell carcinoma. In particu...

I’m so happy to have had the opportunity to interview Tina Nguyen for this podcast. In this episode, Tina shares how she came from humble beginnings in Vietnam to go to college, receiving multiple master's degrees, an MBA, and now is an ML/AI Portfolio Manager at U.S. Bank in their Data Science department. Tina calls the women in her life a major strength in helping set her work ethic to arri...

In this episode, we speak with Jake Mason, a Senior Data Scientist at Carrot Health. Prior to his current role, he was at United Health Group where he developed and lead teams building real-time machine learning applications. Outside of his professional work, Jake has been a cofounder of two awesome meetup groups here in the Twin Cities. The first is "Analyze This" a group that focused o...

This episode is a followup from some of the great conversations we had with Dave Mathais back in Episode 6 ! This time around, Dave and I riff on all the various online courses, meetups ( Hint -- AppliedAI.MN ), and data challenges that both compies and communities are holding to help elevate and build a community around what's possible with Artificial Intelligence. Finally, if you are intere...

In this episode, we go deep with the always fascinating and expert in the field of data, Statistics, and Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Kevin Church . A chemical engineer by training and applied statistician by vocation, Kevin has more than 20 years of experience in the practical application of statistical thinking and the scientific approach to improve business performance. Kevin helps organization...

Our guest today is Parker Erickson ! Parker is currently a student at the University of Minnesota pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science. Interested in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and graph databases. He’s also been a software engineering Intern at Optum and has developed, among many things a fraud detection system using graph databases and machine learning. The system is currently in...

In this episode, we are joined by Dave Mathias . Dave is a Data & Product Coach at Beyond The Data and host of the Data Able Podcast . He’s also a leader in the Data Science and Analytics community having founded many meetups, conferences and is on the board of MinneAnalytics . Dave shares with us his deep experience in using data within originations to make better product decisions. We also t...

In this episode, we are joined by Josh Cutler , VP & Sr. Distinguished Engineer for AI Platforms & Transformation Team at Optum. Josh shared with us his 15+ years of experience in applying data and intelligence to solve hard business problems. I really liked Josh's definition of the application of AI being, "How can we help computers make good decisions" . This cuts to the c...

Thank you to Joe Schnieder for taking the time to chat with me on his history of applying AI using Embedded Systems. As a fellow entrepreneur, educator to the community, Arduino enthusiast, and someone looking at how to apply AI at the edge, this was an awesome conversation. From his early times at John Deere to his current role as the founder of Dojo5 , Joe brings passion, inspiration, and in som...

I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to have this awesome conversation with Jon Herke , a leader, and technical evangelist based in the Twin Cities. In this episode, we cover a TON of ground on everything from how Emerging Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence is being taught in schools and how Jon is intimately involved in fixing that through the Futurist Academy , to what's...

In this episode, we talk with Senthil Kumaran , CIO/CTO for Virtuwell , a HealthPartners company. He is part of HealthPartners AI and Machine Learning and Enterprise architecture group and a key contributor to the HIPPA/HITEC security and a conference presenter on Predictive Data Analytics, Rules, and Web/Mobile initiatives.  In this episode, we talk about the US Healthcare system and how AI is be...

In this episode, Dan McCreary , Distinguished Engineer in AI and Graph at Optum shares with us his deep experience in Graph Databases, the AI racing league, and why Enterprise Knowledge Graphs will rule the world in the areas of Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence. Graph Databases Enterprise Knowledge Graphs AI Racing League Optum IoTHackday Arduino Thank you, Dan, for the conversation and to y...