People of AI

Meet Joyce Shen, a venture investor focused on emerging technology and AI companies. Learn about startups, acquisitions, and mergers on this episode of People of AI. Joyce shares her career journey in statistics and economics and how she brought her unique experience into building a model for IBM to apply to acquisitions and evaluate startups. Ashley, Gus, and Joyce talk about challenges that busi...

Meet Crispin Velez, an AI Architect at Google Cloud and  leader of Vertex AI. Find out how he works with clients, partners and sales teams to adopt ML/AI using Google Cloud. Ashley, Gus and Crispin talk about Google Cloud, the history of cloud computing, creation of Vertex AI, and more. Crispin shares his experience expanding the SpaLatam TensorFlow community in Columbia and mentoring startups on...

Meet Sayak Paul, a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in diffusion models at Hugging Face and GDE for ML and Google Cloud. He shares how his community contributions led him towards getting his current dream job at Hugging Face. Join Ashley, Gus, and Sayak for a chat about resources for developers to get into machine learning, how diffusion models have exploded in the past year, the role of res...

Meet Sunita Verma, the Vice President of Engineering at Google Core Labs. She shares her experience in tech from her start of loving problem solving in college to finding a passion for computer science, learning lessons in leadership, and working at Google over the past 16 years. Ashley, Gus, and Sunita talk about how generative AI will transform the way we work, how Google Core Labs accelerates t...

Meet Ashley & Gus, your hosts for season 2 of People of AI. In this episode, Luis Gustavo Martins, also known as Gus, shares his personal and professional path from playing video games as a young child in Brazil to becoming a Developer Advocate at Google. (For Ashley's story, check out episode 1) Ashley and Gus also talk about the explosive growth of Generative AI tools and the major technology sh...

Meet Michelle Carney, a Machine Learning User Experience Researcher at Google. Join us as we learn how her careers in music, neuroscience, teaching, and machine learning have informed her ability to understand how people use Machine Learning tools, and provide better feedback to help make these tools more useful, helpful, kind, and inclusive of all types of user experiences.    Resources: Visual B...

There is a whole team at Google dedicated to designing AI best practices. They are committed to making progress in the responsible development of AI and share reliable, effective user-centered research, tools, datasets, and other resources with users. Meet one of the members of the team, Christina Greer, as she shares the in's and out's of working in the field of Responsible AI and how her persona...

Meet Joana Carrasqueira as she talks about her amazing ability to grow community in the field of machine learning. Join us as we hear about her extraordinary journey from the non-profit sector to business and most recently into tech and how she leverages her superpower of bringing people together and fostering a culture of belonging. Resources: WiML → https://goo.gle/3GRW939   WiML Blog post → htt...

From developing programs on a Pentium computer as a kid and programming in Visual Basic 6 to becoming a leader in software development for Machine Learning on the Web, join us as we learn about Gant's journey to where he is today. And the secret sauce to all this? Gant's creativity and curiosity that he mixes into his work, creating fun and amazing experiences for developers around the world.    L...

Meet Catherine Nelson, Principal Data Scientist at SAP Concur and author of the upcoming O'Reilly book "Software Engineering for Data Scientists". Join us as we talk about Catherine's amazing career journey as she pivoted from geophysicist to working on setting the standard for building machine learning pipelines. According to Catherine, it all starts with how you prepare and train your data!    ...

Meet Jason Mayes, the public face of Web ML at Google and host of Made With TensorFlow.js. Join us as we talk about Jason's journey and mission to make machine learning easy, fun and accessible on the web and how getting into the field of machine learning has never been easier.      Made With TensorFlow.js Playlist: http://goo.gle/made-with-tfjs   Learn Web ML on Google Developers: https://goo.gle...

Meet Sharon Zhou, an adjunct faculty member at Stanford University and co-founder of Stealth Startup. Join us as we talk about the power and interconnectedness of language as we dive into generative AI models, stable diffusion, large language models, and learn how every problem – according to Sharon – is just a translation problem.    Check out Sharon's startup here: https://goo.gle/3TENTJk     Le...

Meet your hosts, Ashley Oldacre and Laurence Moroney, as we uncover what it means to be a person of AI. We talk about personal and professional journeys, lessons learned along the way, and how to get started in Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning. We share resources to get started and where we see the field going. Learn about the TensorFlow Certificate Program  → https://goo.gle/TF-dev-ce...

Join Ashley Oldacre, ML program manager at Google, and Laurence Moroney, ML Developer Advocate at Google, to hear the stories of some incredible people behind machine learning and artificial intelligence. Whether you're just getting started in AI/ML, or looking to expand your established experience, these stories are for you. We hope you will tune in!