Jay Shah Podcast

Anupam is the co-founder and President of TruEra and prior to that, he was a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University for 15 years. TruEra provides AI solutions that help enterprises use machine learning, improve and monitor model quality, and build trust. His research and other efforts are focused on privacy, fairness, and building trustworthy machine-learning models. He holds a Ph. D. in computer...

Surbhi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She got her Ph. D. in Computer Science from UT Austin and prior to joining UPenn as an Assistant Professor, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research NYC in the Machine Learning group. She has research expertise in theoretical computer science & machine learning, with a particular focus on developing theoretical...

Sebastian Raschka​ is the lead AI educator at GridAI. He is the author of the book "Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit Learn" and also a few other books that cover the fundamentals of #machinelearning and #deeplearning techniques and implementing them with Python. He is also an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been actively involved i...

Dr. Matthew Lungren is currently the Chief Medical Information Officer at Nuance Communications - Microsoft company, and also holds part-time appointments with the University of California San Francisco as an Associate Clinical Professor and also as adjunct faculty at Stanford and Duke University. He is a radiologist by training and has led and contributed to multiple projects that use AI and deep...

Dr. Charles Fisher is the CEO and Founder of Unlearn(dot)AI which helps in faster drug development and efficient clinical trials. This year they also raised a series B funding of 50 million dollars. Charles holds a Ph. D. in biophysics from Harvard University and prior to founding Unlearn, he did his Postdoctorate at Boston University, followed by being a principal scientist at Pfizer and a machin...

Mina Ghashami is an Applied Scientist in the Alexa Video team at Amazon Science alongside being a lecturer at Stanford University. Prior to joining Amazon, she was a Research Scientist at Visa Research working on recommendation systems built on transactions from users and a few other projects. She completed her Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah followed by a PostDoctoral posit...

Alberto Santamaria-Pang is a Principal Applied Data Scientist at Microsoft.  He did his Ph. D. in computer science from the University of Houston and has a long experience in research and development on various AI projects including but not limited to medical imaging and deep learning. Prior to Microsoft, he was a principal scientist at GE research. He has led many research projects in industry an...

Are large language models really sentient or conscious? What is explainability (XAI) and how can we create human-aware AI systems for collaborative tasks? Dr. Subbarao Kambhampati sheds some light on these topics, generating explanations for human-in-loop AI systems and understanding 'intelligence' in context to AI systems. He is a Prof of Computer Science at Arizona State University and...

Divy is a Program Manager and one of the founding members of   Google research in India. He is actively involved and leading strategic programs that connect academia and research at Google, programs that focus on AI-for-Social-Good initiatives, and educational programs for schools in India with a particular focus on building computer science foundations. 00:00:12 Introductions 00:01:12 Background...

Watch the full conversation with Dr. Manish Gupta here: https://youtu.be/-Tl6-DKxEMU Dr. Manish Gupta is currently the Director of Google Research in India. Prior to that he was the Vice-president and led the Xerox Research Center in India majorly working on data analytics and mobile computing. Before that, he was also at IBM research in India leading the efforts and building a lab focused on high...

Check out the full conversation with Hanie here: https://youtu.be/hFJLuqaSakA Hanie is a senior research scientist at Google Brain working on research problems related to understanding and improving deep learning techniques. She works on designing algorithms with theoretical guarantees such that they work efficiently in real-world applications.  Prior to that, she was a research scientist at Allen...

Dr. Manish Gupta is currently the Director of Google Research in India. Prior to that he was the Vice-president and led the Xerox Research Center in India majorly working on data analytics and mobile computing. Before that he also at IBM research in India leading the efforts and building a lab focused on high-performance computing and business analytics. He also worked on the IBM Blue Gene superco...

Hanie is a senior research scientist at Google Brain working on research problems related to understanding and improving deep learning techniques. She works on designing algorithms with theoretical guarantees such that they work efficiently in real-world applications.  Prior to that, she was a research scientist at   Allen Institute for AI, and before that she was a Post-Doc fellow at UC-Irvine. S...

Do Vision Transformers work in the same way as CNNs? Do the internal representational structures of ViTs and CNNs differ? An in-depth analysis article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.08810.pdf Listen to the full conversation here: https://youtu.be/htnJxcwJqeA Dr. Maithra Raghu is a senior research scientist at Google working on analyzing the internal workings of deep neural networks so that we can dep...

How to decide and choose a research/thesis to work on that interests you and is also relevant to current research directions. Full episodes with  Maithra, Google: https://youtu.be/htnJxcwJqeA Natasha  Google: https://youtu.be/8XpCnmvq49s Milind  Google: https://youtu.be/eqwF3NpZFb4 Hima  Harvard University: https://youtu.be/8Ym4oYTd8Fo Ishan  Facebook AI: https://youtu.be/Pb5RQAEtznk About the Hos...

Dr. Maithra Raghu is a senior research scientist at Google working on analyzing the internal workings of deep neural networks so that we can deploy them better keeping humans in the loop. She recently graduated from Cornell University with a PhD in CS and previously graduated from  Cambridge University with BA and Masters in Mathematics. She has received multiple awards for her research work inclu...

How can you students and researchers work on projects using AI that creates a real impact and difference in society?  Watch the full podcast with Dr. Tambe here: https://youtu.be/eqwF3NpZFb4 Dr. Milind Tambe is a Professor of Computer Science at  Harvard University and Director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society. He is also the Director of AI for Social Good at  Google  Research...

Watch the full conversation with Nasrin here: https://youtu.be/59kRUmhA5yI Nasrin is the co-founder of a deep-tech startup Verneek and has been in the space of AI startups for the past 5 years now. Before that, she was a senior research scientist at Elemental Cognition & BenevolentAI, and prior to which she graduated with a Ph. D. from the University of Rochester and her major research interes...

How can we build intuition for interdisciplinary fields in order to tackle challenges in social reinforcement learning? Natasha Jaques is currently a Research Scientist at Google Brain and a post-doc fellow at UC Berkeley, where her research interests are in designing multi-agent RL algorithms while focusing on social reinforcement learning. She received her Ph. D. from MIT and has also received m...

Why and where do companies fail at productionizing ML models?  Watch the full podcast with Aarti here: https://youtu.be/VWJXiszQpTU Aarti is a machine learning engineer at Snorkel AI. Prior to that, she worked closely with Andrew Ng in various capacities. She graduated with a master’s in CS from Stanford, and bachelor's in CS and Computer Engineering from @New York University, and at @Microso...

Deciding whether to do a Ph. D. or not and things to focus on while writing your research thesis. Watch the full podcast here: https://youtu.be/8Ym4oYTd8Fo Dr. Himabindu Lakkaraju is an Assistant Professor at Harvard University and her major research interests are along the lines of explainability, fairness, and robustness in AI systems. Prior to that she graduated with a Ph. D. from  @Stanford  a...

Dr. Milind Tambe is a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University   and Director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society. He is also the Director of AI for Social Good at Google Research in India. He has been leading and working on projects that are creating an impact, ranging from wildlife conservation, public health, and safety using AI techniques. Time Stamps: 00:00 Introd...

Dr. Geneviève Patterson is the head of applied research at VSCO. Prior to that, she was the CTO of a video editing company she co-founded called TRASH - later acquired by VSCO. She holds a Ph. D. in CS from Brown University   with a focus on research in video understanding. She was also a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research   where she worked on interpreting deep neural networks and much...

Three research scientists from Google share their journey about interest in Machine Learning research and how they got started with it. Watch full podcasts with each of these speakers: Azalia Mirhoseini: https://youtu.be/5LCfH8YiOv4 Sara Hooker: https://youtu.be/MHtbZls2uts Natasha Jacques: https://youtu.be/8XpCnmvq49s About the Host: Jay is a Ph. D. student at Arizona State University, doing rese...

Full episode available here: https://youtu.be/V1mDR4x_JY0 Jineet, a Data Scientist at Intuit and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University shares some amazing insights about data science and machine learning probing his experiences. Our aim of these webinars is to connect you with the brightest minds in the field of Machine Learning/Data Science so that you can learn how to break into the field and...