The Minhaaj's Podcast

Aytekin is the founder and CEO of JotForm, one of the most widely used no-code automation platforms in the world, serving more than 35 million users across education, healthcare, nonprofits, and small businesses. He’s also the author of the Wall Street Journal and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling book Automate Your Busy Work , 00:00 – Introduction Founder mindset, automation philosophy, and the futu...

Aleksa Gordic is an ex-software/ML engineer at Microsoft & DeepMind with a broad background across the "whole stack" - maths, electronics, software engineering, algorithms, ML & deep learning (computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), geometric DL, reinforcement learning (RL)...), web, mobile, etc. He is a Top Linkedin Voice in AI for 2023. He has The AI Epiphany YouTub...

Season 2 episode 2 of The Minhaaj Podcast this week brings on the child prodigy and genius co-creator of dataframes.jl package for Julia, Dr  Bogumił Kamiński . Bogumil learned C language without owning a computer from library books at the age of 16 in a small Polish town. In post-communist Poland he went on to study applied problems in management and economics and his interest lies in computation...

Ryan is an entrepreneur, data scientist, engineer, and former VC. He is the co-founder and CEO of Zenlytic, a SaaS business that makes a next-generation AI-powered BI tool that uses LLMs and Semantic layers. He previously co-founded Ex Quanta AI Studio, a full-service data consultancy. Ryan started his career as a software developer in his native Canada, before moving to the UK. He then worked wit...

Dr. Akhtar received his Ph. D. in Neuroscience and M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016. He received a B.S. in Biology in 2007 and M.S. in Computer Science in 2008 at Loyola University Chicago. His research is on motor control and sensory feedback for upper limb prostheses, and he has collaborations with the Bretl Research Group...

William H. Inmon (born 1945) is an American computer scientist, recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse. Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference (with Arnie Barnett), wrote the first column in a magazine and was the first to offer classes in data warehousing. Inmon created the accepted definition of what a data warehouse is - a subject-oriented, nonvolatile, integrated...

Lisa Cohen is the Director of Data Science at Twitter and Formerly at Microsoft for 20 years. He holds a bachelor and a master in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and is one of the most influential women in Data Science and AI. 00:00 Intro 02:52 Harvard, Microsoft, and Twitter. From SE to Data Science 03:40  Work Culture at Microsoft, Bigger Picture & Customer First Paradigm 16:40  Working with Bi...

Dhaval Patel is a software & data engineer with more than 17 years of experience. He has been working as a data engineer for a Fintech giant Bloomberg LP (New York) as well as NVidia in the past. He teaches programming, machine learning, data science through YouTube channel CodeBasics which has 428K subscribers worldwide.  00:00 Intro 01:34 Autoimmune disease ‘Ulcerative colitis’, Life &a...

Harrison Canning is a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the School of Individualized Studies, Founder of The BCI Guys & Neurotechnology Exploration Team. He makes videos on his Youtube channel The BCI Guys and has designed his own degree centered around brain-computer interface technology (BA in Neurotechnology). The BCI Guys is a media company dedicated to removing the barri...

Matthias Fey is the creator of the Pytorch Geometric library and a postdoctoral researcher in deep learning at TU Dortmund Germany. He is a core contributor to the Open Graph Benchmark dataset initiative in collaboration with Stanford University Professor Jure Leskovec. 00:00 Intro 00:50 Pytorch Geometric Inception   02:57  Graph NNs vs CNNs, Transformers, RNNs 05:00  Implementation...

Ankit is an experienced AI Researcher/Machine Learning Engineer who is passionate about using AI to build scalable machine learning products. In his 10 years of AI career, he has researched and deployed several state-of-the-art machine learning models which have impacted 100s of millions of users.    Currently, He works as a senior research scientist at Facebook where he works on a varie...

Francis Corrigan is Director of Decision Intelligence at Target Corporation. Embedded within the Global Supply Chain, Decision Intelligence combines data science with model thinking to help decision-makers solve problems. 00:00 Intro  01:21  Data Science applications in Logistics and Supply Chain, Cost and Performance trade-off  03:21  Amazon vs Target fulfillment Model, Owning...

Walid S. Saba is the Founder and Principal AI Scientist at ONTOLOGIK.AI where he works on the development of Conversational AI. Prior to this, he was a PrincipalAI Scientist at Astound.ai and Co-Founder and the CTO of Klangoo. He also held various positions at such places as the American Institutes for Research, AT&TBell Labs, Metlife, IBM and Cognos, and has spent 7 years in academia where he...

Richard Turrin is an award-winning, dynamic Fintech expert with over 20 years of experience in leveraging new technology to drive revenue growth for market-leading companies. He writes, speaks, and consults on innovation and China because he learned about both the hard way. He headed four labs in banks responsible for financial product innovation and headed fintech operations in China. His best-se...

James Gaskin is a professor of Information Systems Management at Brigham Young University. 00:00 intro 07:00 Mismatch between Pedagogical Style and Student Needs  12:11 Behavioral Science and Structural Equation Modelling. 16:40  Cut-off scores in Model Acceptance in SEM 17:30  SEM on Big Data and Computational Intensity 20:14  Model Explanation in Academics vs Industry 21:16 &...

This week I'll sit down with Ganes Kesari, Chief Decision Scientist at Gramener, the company behind Gramex and an innovative rising star. Ganes is a contributor in leading magazines such as Forbes, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, and The Enterprisers Project.  He won the 2020 CSuite Award for best blog by a business leader. He has taught at Princeton University and Indian Business School and has be...

Serg Masis is the author of best-selling book 'Interpretable Machine Learning with Python' and senior Data Scientist at Sygenta. He has mentored many data scientists around the world.  Timestamps: 00:00 intro 08:30  Old 4.77 MH  z Computer, Late 80s and Programming 11:51 Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Machine Learning, Startup and Harvard 16:33  Fairness vs Precis...

Ryne Sherman is Chief Science Officer of Hogans Assessments and Podcast Host of Hogan's Podcast. He was a Professor of Psychological Sciences at Florida Atlantic University before that.    TimeStamps:   00:00 ​ intro  01:42 ​ Personality Portraits,  Big Five, Self vs Other Reports  03:53 ​  Trait Identification, Talent Hunting and Reputation-based Prediction&nbsp...

Greg Gage is the co-founder and CEO of Backyard Brains, an organization that develops open-source tools that allow amateurs and students to participate in neural discovery.  Greg is an NIH-award-winning neuroscientist with 9 popular TED Talks and dozens of peer-reviewed publications. Greg is a Senior Fellow at TED and the recipient of the White House Champion of Change from Barack Obama award...

Fabio Pereira is leading the Open Innovation Labs initiative in Latin America at Red Hat. Open Innovation Labs is an intensive, highly focused residency in an environment designed to experiment, immerse and catalyze innovation. He is the author of the book "Digital Nudge: The hidden forces behind the 35,000 decisions we make every day".   He had been a Principal Consultant, a Digital Tra...

Vivek Viswanathan , is Global Head of Research at Rayliant Global Advisors founded by the brilliant, Jason Hsu (managed $145 Billion). Rayliant Quantamental China Equity ETF is a $22 Billion active portfolio employing a systematic approach to harvesting behavioral alpha by exploiting mispricings among Chinese stocks traded in markets around the world. We will be talking about Archegos, GameStop, C...

Prashant Natarajan is the Vice President of H20.ai Health and Life Sciences division with a record of turning things around at Siemens Oracle Deloitte Unum. He is a Co-Faculty Instructor at Stanford University, author of numerous best-selling books e.g. “Demystifying Big Data & Machine Learning for Healthcare,” published by Taylor & Francis. His latest book is on its way " Demystifying Art...

For 25 years, Wayne Turmel has been obsessed with how people communicate at work. For the last 15, he’s focused on communicating through technology. He is a co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute (www. RemoteLeadershipInstitute.com) , and author or co-author of 13 books including The Long-Distance Teammate, Stay Engaged and Connected While Working Anywhere, and The Long-Distance Leader,&nbs...

On Friday, March 5th, I will be talking to one of the best data science mentors on Youtube, known for his work in bioinformatics and machine learning. His colorful infographics, succinct visualizations of the concepts, and depth of knowledge amaze every beginner in data science.   Chanin Nantasenamat is also known as 'Data Professor', a name everyone knows if they have ever searched for...

Up next on Psyda Podcast is Dr Boris Nikolai Konrad. He is 8x team world champion, holds 4x Guinness Book World records, holds a Ph. D. in Neuroscience from Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, has degrees in physics and computer sciences, and trains people in techniques like Method of Loci, Mnemonics and Mind Palace (explained in Sherlock & Netflix se...