AI Stories

Our guest today is Christina Stathopoulos, Analytical Lead at Waze and Adjunct Professor at IE University in Madrid. In our conversation,  Christina first shares her opinion on her MSc in Business Analytics and Big Data at IE university and discusses the pros and cons of an in-person vs an online master. Christina then talks about her transition into teaching, the challenges that she faced as well...

Our guest today is Serg Masís, author of the book "Interpretable Machine Learning with Python" and Data Scientist at Syngenta: a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security. In our conversation, we first talk about Serg's transition from working as a web developer to joining the world of Data Science and AI where he explains why he decided to do a master in D...

Our guest today is Antonio Ivanovski, Senior Data Analyst at Google and author of the book "The AI Journey". In our conversation,  Antonio first talks about his transition from studying sports, events and tourism to getting into AI. He also explains how after only 4 months of full-time work experience, he actually manages to get a double promotion. We then focus on his work at Verizon, a...

Our guest today is Nick Singh, ex-Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Author of "Ace the Data Science Interview", an Amazon best seller book which helps you land your dream Data Science job. In our conversation, we first talk about Nick's career in industry. We explore how he managed to get into some of the best tech companies in the world and how he transitioned from being a Data Engin...

Our guest today is Neal Lathia, Associate Director of Machine Learning at Monzo bank, a major UK digital bank which is now valued at around $4.5 billion.  In our conversation, we first talk about Neal's PhD in recommender systems, the type of AI algorithms used by Youtube, Netflix, Spotify which provide user specific recommendations. We then go over his experience as a freelance Data Scientis...

Our guest today is Lyndsee Manna, Executive Vice President in Strategic Partnerships and Global Business at Arria NLG.  Arria is a world leader in Natural Language Generation (NLG), a sub-branch of Natural Language Processing which uses algorithms to transform structured data into text.  In our conversation, we first talk about Lyndsee's studies and her transition from being a musician to bec...

Our guest today is Samuel Cohen, PhD student at University College London (UCL) and visiting research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR).  In our conversation, we first dive into Samuel's first experience in AI, an internship at Check Point Software Technology where he developed a Machine Learning algorithm to detect malicious software (malware) on Android devices. We then dig into his...

Our guest today is Kanwal Bhatia, Co-Founder and CSO of Metalynx. Kanwal spent a big part of her career building Deep Learning algorithms for Medical Imaging.  In our conversation, we first talk about her past projects in academia. We focus on her postdoctoral at Kings College London where Kanwal developed machine learning algorithms for lung cancer detection. We then dig into her experience at Vi...

Our guest today is Alberto Rizzoli, Co-Founder and CEO of V7, an MLOPS platform which enables to collaborate and automate workflows.  His work on AI granted him an award from Italian President Sergio Mattarella. V7's products won the CES Best of Innovation Award for two consecutive years in a row.   In our conversation, we first dig into 2015 and the beginning of the "AI boom". 2015...

Our guest today is Youri Moscovic, Co-Founder and CEO of Prediko, an AI startup which is doing smart inventory planning for e-commerce businesses.  In our conversation, we start by exploring the differences and similarities between AI and Operational Research (OR), a field that Youri specialised in during his master at the London School of Economics.  We then focus on his first job at Satalia, an...

Our guest today is Rushen Patel, Head of Enterprise Data Science at Marks & Spencer (M&S), a major British retailer with around  £10 billion in annual revenue.  In our conversation, we discuss the key steps in Rushen's career.  We start with his PhD in Control Theory at Imperial College London, going over the similarities and differences between this field and AI. We then discuss his...