The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

In this episode of the Data Exchange , our special correspondent and editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and my podcast co-organizer Mikio Braun . We began our conversation by taking a look back at some of our predictions from last year which included applications of reinforcement learning, end-to-end machine learning platforms, and more. This year we organized trends in the...

In this episode of the Data Exchange , our special correspondent and editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and Jesse Anderson , Managing Director at the Big Data Institute. Jesse is the author of a recent book entitled “Data Teams: A Unified Management Model for Successful Data-Focused Teams” . Subscribe : Apple , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . Download the...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Dan Geer, Senior Fellow at In-Q-tel and Andrew Burt, co-founder and Managing Partner of BNH.ai and Chief Legal Officer at Immuta . Dan is one the leading experts in cybersecurity and risk management, and he has written numerous influential essays on security, privacy, and risk (examples here and here ). Andrew serves as co-founder of a new law firm...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury , founder of Parity , a startup building products and services to help companies build and deploy ethical and responsible AI. Prior to starting Parity, Rumman was Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence. Subscribe : Apple , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . Download the 2020 NLP Survey R...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Jack Morris , a member of Google’s AI Residency program. He is co-creator of TextAttack, an open source framework for adversarial attacks, data augmentation, and adversarial training in NLP ( paper , code ). Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS . Download the 2020 NLP Survey Report and learn how companies are using and im...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Yishay Carmiel , an AI Leader at Avaya, a company focused on digital communications.  He has long been immersed in speech technologies and conversational applications and I have frequently used him as a resource to understand the latest in speech systems.  We previously co-wrote an article that listed out recommendations for teams building speech a...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Ram Shankar , a Berkman Klein Center affiliate, and a researcher and engineer who works at the intersection of Machine Learning and Security. This episode is focused on the current state of tools and techniques for securing machine learning applications. Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS . Download the 2020 NLP Survey...

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Marco Ribeiro ,  Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, and lead author of the award-winning paper ”Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP models with CheckList” .  As machine learning gains importance across many application domains and industries, there is a growing need to formalize how ML models get built, deployed, and used.  MLOps is an...

Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google •  RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Xinyi Zhou ,   a graduate student in Computer and Information Science at Syracuse University.  Xinyi and her advisor (Reza Zafarani) recently wrote a comprehensive survey paper entitled “A Survey of Fake News: Fundamental Theories, Detection Methods, and Opportunities” . They set ou...

Subscribe : Apple , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Neil Thompson , Research Scientist at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the Initiative on the Digital Economy, both at MIT.  I wanted Neil on the podcast to discuss a recent paper he co-wrote entitled “The Computational Limits of Deep Learning” (summary...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Piero Molino , creator of Ludwig , a toolbox that allows users to train and test deep learning models through a declarative interface. Piero created Ludwig while serving as a Senior Research Scientist at Uber AI. He originally created Ludwig for his personal use and it slowly ga...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Mayank Kejriwal , a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a Research Lead at the USC Information Sciences Institute. The focus of our conversation is knowledge graphs, a collection of linked entities (objects, events, concepts)...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Murat Özbayoğlu , Chair of Artificial Intelligence Engineering at TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara, Turkey.  I wanted Murat on to discuss two survey papers he and his colleagues wrote on the use of deep learning in finance. I’ve long been fascinated with fin...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Viral Shah , co-founder and CEO, Julia Computing. Along with his Julia language co-creators, Viral was awarded the 2019 Wilkinson prize , for outstanding contributions in the field of numerical software. I first tweeted about Julia at the beginning of March 2012 after seeing Jef...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Kira Radinsky , Chairwoman & Chief Technology Officer at Diagnostic Robotics , a startup using AI to build a medical-grade triage and clinical-predictions platform. She is also a visiting Professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.  Kira has extensive experience...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Max Pumperla , deep learning engineer at Pathmind and a contributor to many open source projects in data science and machine learning.  Max is speaking on applications of reinforcement learning to simulation problems at the upcoming Ray Summit , a free virtual conference schedul...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Weifeng Zhong , Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is the core maintainer of the open source Policy Change Index (PCI), a framework that uses machine learning and NLP to “process and read” large amounts of text to discern government prio...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Ofer Razon , co-Founder & CEO at Superwise , a startup focused on building tools that help companies gain more visibility and control of machine learning models in production. Ofer and Superwise are part of a group in the early stage of building tools and best practices for...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Alan Nichol , co-founder and CTO of Rasa , the startup behind the popular open source framework for building conversational AI applications. I had Alan on as a guest in my old podcast , and that conversation was focused on components of Rasa and of chatbot applications. This tim...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange , our special correspondent and editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and Paco Nathan , author, teacher, and founder of Derwen.ai , a boutique consulting firm specializing in Data, machine learning (ML), and AI. We began by discussing tools for scaling machine learning....

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Joel Grus , Principal Engineer at the Capital Group. He previously served as a Senior Research Engineer at the Allen Institute for AI, where he was a core engineer on AllenNLP, a PyTorch-based library for NLP research. Joel is also the author of one of the most widely read books...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I bring back Bruno Gonçalves , a data scientist working at the intersection of Data Science and Finance. Bruno was a guest on this podcast in April , when the COVID-19 cases were spiking in his home base in NYC. Prior to shifting over to data science, he spent several years as a researcher f...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Karthik Ramasamy (Senior Director Of Engineering at Splunk) and Arun Kejariwal (experienced engineering leader). The focus of our conversation was hiring technical talent such as software engineers, developers, data scientists, architects, etc.  The global pandemic has caused a...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Lauren Kunze , CEO of Pandorabots , a widely used platform for building chatbots. About four years ago I attended Bot Day in San Francisco, and at the time, chatbots were very much in the news. Today, chatbots are used across many industries and use cases, and on many types of d...

Subscribe : iTunes , Android , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , and RSS . In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Ameet Talwalkar , co-founder and Chief Scientist at Determined AI1, and an Assistant Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University.  A few months ago, I spoke with one of Ameet’s co-founders (Evan Sparks), around the time they announced that they wer...