The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

This week’s guest is Connor Leahy , AI Researcher at Aleph Alpha GmbH, and founding member of EleutherAI , (pronnounced “ee-luther”) a collective of researchers and engineers building resources and models for researchers who work on natural language models. As NLP research becomes more computationally demanding and data intensive, there is a need for researchers to work together to develop tools a...

This week’s guests are leading researchers in recommendation systems: Paolo Cremonesi is Professor of Computer Science and Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema  is a Postdoc at Politecnico di Milano, where they are both part of the RecSys research group . Paolo is also the Reproducibility co-chair for the upcoming RecSys Conference. Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS . Detailed sh...

This week’s guest is Hyun Kim , co-founder and CEO of Superb AI , a startup building tools to help companies manage data across the entire machine learning application lifecycle. This includes tools to label, store, and monitor data assets that power all computer vision applications. We also discussed emerging trends in machine learning and AI including synthetic data, reinforcement learning, and...

This week’s guest is Nicolas (Nic) Hohn , Chief Data Scientist, McKinsey/QuantumBlack Australia. Nic led a team of data scientists charged with helping America’s Cup winning team,  Emirates Team New Zealand, test new designs for hydrofoils – important sailing boat components that could be modified based on rules set forth by race organizers. More precisely the QuantumBlack team used Ray RLlib to d...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Andrew Burt, co-founder and Managing Partner of BNH.ai , a new law firm focused on AI compliance, risk mitigation, and related topics.  BNH is the first law firm run by lawyers and technologists focused on helping companies identify and mitigate risks associated with machine learning and AI.  Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Googl...

This week’s guest is Travis Addair , he previously led the team at Uber that was responsible for building Uber’s deep learning infrastructure. Travis is deeply involved with two popular open source projects related to deep learning: He is maintainer of Horovod , a distributed deep learning training framework for TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and Apache MXNet. And Travis is a co-maintainer of Ludwig...

In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Yonatan Geifman , CEO and co-founder of Deci , as well as with Ran El-Yaniv , Chief Scientist and co-founder of Deci and Professor of Computer Science at Technion.  Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site . Subscribe to The Gradient Flow Newsletter .

In this episode of the Data Exchange, our special correspondent and managing editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and Jerry Overton , who previously served as a DXC Fellow, Head of AI at DXC Technology .  We discussed Jerry’s experience helping companies across many industries adopt data science and machine learning. We spoke about Centers of Excellence for AI, automation in...

As the amount and importance of data grows within organizations, there is growing interest in tools that enable them to strategically utilize, manage, and unlock their data resources. This week’s guest is Steven (Steve) Touw , cofounder and CTO of Immuta ,  a startup that builds tools that help companies address data governance, data discovery, data privacy and security. Subscribe : Apple • Androi...

In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Davit Buniatyan , founder and CEO of ActiveLoop , a startup building data management tools for unstructured data types commonly associated with deep learning. Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site . Subscribe to The Gradient Flow Newsletter .

In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak Zhe Zhang , Engineering Manager at Anyscale where he leads the team that works on the Ray and its ecosystem of libraries and partners. Ray is an open source, general purpose framework for building distributed applications (more details in this post and video ). Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS . Detailed show notes can be...

In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Abe Gong , CEO and co-founder at Superconductive ,  a startup founded by the team behind the Great Expectations (GE) open source project. GE is one of a growing number of tools aimed at improving data quality through tools for validation and testing. Other projects in this area include TensorFlow DV , assertr , dataframe-rules-engine , deequ , dat...

In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Parisa Rashidi ,  Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Florida. Parisa is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher who specializes in applications of ML to healthcare and biomedical domains. Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on...

In this episode of the Data Exchange, our special correspondent and managing editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and Simon Rodriguez ,  Data Research Assistant at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University.  Through a series of reports and data briefs, CSET provides policymakers with data rich material to inform and guide public policy. S...

In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Ryan Wisnesky , CTO and co-founder of Conexus , a startup that uses techniques from mathematics and incorporates them into novel tools for data integration, data management, and knowledge management. Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site . Subscribe to The G...

In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Jian Pei , Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University. His research spans data science, big data, data mining, and database systems. But in this podcast we talk about tools for estimating the economic value of data.  Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data...

In this episode of the Data Exchange, our special correspondent and managing editor Jenn Webb and I speak with Sharon Zhou , a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University. Sharon has been teaching very popular courses on GANs (generative adversarial networks) on Coursera. In this conversation we  examine the state of Education Technology (EdTech), learning platforms, and other tools for...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Sheldon Fernandez , CEO at Darwin AI, and Alex Wong , Professor at the University of Waterloo, Co-Founder of DarwinAI (Chief Scientist) and Euclid Labs. Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site . Subscribe to The Gradient Flow Newsletter .

In this episode of the Data Exchange, our special correspondent and managing editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and Assaf Araki ,  investment manager at Intel Capital. Assaf and I have written a series of articles and this interview took place shortly before the release of our most recent collaboration: The Growing Importance of Metadata Management Systems . We devote this...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Michael Mahoney , a researcher at UC Berkeley’s RISELab , ICSI , and Department of Statistics. Mike and his collaborators  were recently awarded one of the best papers awards at NeurIPS 2020 , one of leading research conferences in machine learning. Subscribe : Apple , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . Download the 2021 Trends Repor...

In this episode of the Data Exchange, our special correspondent and managing editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and Sonal Goyal , founder of Aficx , a startup that builds solutions to unify data silos for cross selling and upselling, fraud and risk management, compliance and regulatory reporting. Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS . Detailed sho...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz , CTO and cofounder of Nexar, Inc. , a startup that uses dash cams powered by vision-based applications to improve driving and logistics. Subscribe : Apple , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . Download the 2021 Trends Report: Data, Machine Learning, AI   and learn emerging technologies for data management, data e...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak Bharath (“Bart”) Ramsundar, author and open source developer. While in graduate school, Bart created deepchem , an open source project that aims to democratize deep learning for science. Subscribe : Apple , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . Download the 2020 NLP Survey Report and learn how companies are using and implementing natural lan...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Ira Cohen : co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at Anodot, a startup that uses AI for business monitoring. Subscribe : Apple , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . Download the 2020 NLP Survey Report and learn how companies are using and implementing natural language technologies. Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange w...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Omer Dror , CEO and co-founder of Lynx.md , a startup that enables data exchanges and markets in the health and life sciences. Data exchanges match data providers and suppliers, with data buyers and users. Subscribe : Apple , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . Download the 2020 NLP Survey Report and learn how companies are using and...