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ODSC West 2021 Speakers

ODSC West will host more than 280 speakers and instructors. Speaker profiles are added weekly. Check back for updates. You’re welcome to check out some speaker blogs here.

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IBM Distinguished Engineer | CTO, Watson Data and AI OSS PlatformIBM

Animesh Singh

Animesh is primarily responsible for –

• Driving IBM AI and ML Strategy and execution, both externally in open source and internally with Watson, with focus on creating an AI platform for IBM, delivering and growing successful AI projects, and driving adoption of these externally with community partners and internally with AI product teams.

• Provide technical leadership that enables offerings from Watson like Watson Studio, which can run, and scale on IBM Cloud and on prem offerings like ICP for Data. I lead a team, which defines the integration points for our next generation AI platform at Local, Dedicated and Public Cloud layers.

• Building consensus within IBM and the industry around the IBM approach of bringing AI and Cloud together. Leading voice in driving the next generation of the products and setting the direction for widespread adoption.

• Leading multiple initiatives around IBM Watson and Cloud Platform a multi-billion dollar investment from IBM around AI technologies like TensorFlow, Caffe2 etc., built on Cloud.

Animesh is Global Team Leader –

• Leading and collaborating with teams spread across US, China, France, Germany, India, Italy and Japan. • An excellent team builder, motivator, execution lead and implementer. Have demonstrated leadership driving business-enhancing change initiatives with AI and Cloud Computing Solutions

He is a Strategist and Speaker –

• Global speaker, invited to speak at conferences worldwide on IBM strategy and technology. Have spoken in conferences in U.S.A, Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Spain etc.

• Talks at the conferences have garnered more than 105K+ Views on Slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/AnimeshSingh)

60K+ views on YouTube.

INVENTOR

• 15 filed Patents

• 10 granted

Session on Trusted AI Coming Soon!

Director of Data Science and EngineeringSalesforce

Sarah Aerni, PhD

Sarah Aerni is a Senior Manager of Data Science at Salesforce Einstein, where she leads teams building AI-powered applications across the Salesforce platform. Prior to Salesforce she led the healthcare & life science and Federal teams at Pivotal. Sarah obtained her PhD from Stanford University in Biomedical Informatics, performing research at the interface of biomedicine and machine learning. She also co-founded a company offering expert services in informatics to both academia and industry.

 

Director of Data Analytics and AI SolutionsGoogle Cloud

Valliappa Lakshmanan

Lak is the Director for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud. His team builds software solutions for business problems using Google Cloud’s data analytics and machine learning products. He founded Google’s Advanced Solutions Lab ML Immersion program and is the author of three O’Reilly books and several Coursera courses. Before Google, Lak was a Director of Data Science at Climate Corporation and a Research Scientist at NOAA. Follow him on Twitter at @lak_gcp, read articles by him on Medium, and see more details at www.vlakshman.com

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Adjunct Lecturer | ML Engineer & Open Source LeadStanford University | Snorkel AI

Chip Huyen

Chip Huyen is an engineer who develops tools and best practices for machine learning production. Through her work with Snorkel AI, NVIDIA, and Netflix, she has helped some of the world’s largest organizations deploy machine learning systems. She teaches Machine Learning Systems Design at Stanford. She’s also published four bestselling Vietnamese books.

Creator and ChairFlyte

Ketan Umare

Ketan Umare is the TSC Chair for Flyte (incubating under LF AI & Data). He is also currently the Chief Software Architect at Union.ai. Previously he had multiple Senior Lead roles at Lyft, Oracle and Amazon ranging from Cloud, Distributed storage, Mapping (map making) and machine learning systems. He is passionate about building software that makes developer and other engineers’ lives easier and provides simplified access to large scale systems. With Flyte he is trying to bridge gap from ideation to productionization for data and ML pipelines and bring a battle tested approach and structure to the data and ML world.

CEO & Co-Founder Noteable

Michelle Ufford

Michelle is cofounder & CEO of noteable.io, an early-stage startup that’s building the first enterprise-grade platform for Jupyter notebooks. Before starting Noteable, she led the Big Data Tools engineering team at Netflix, where she was responsible for platform innovation and analytics tooling for Netflix’s industry-leading data platform. Prior to that, she led data engineering, data management, and platform architecture for GoDaddy, where she set a TPS record for SQL Server and helped pioneer Hadoop data warehousing techniques.

Session on Data Engineering Workflows Coming Soon!

Training and Enablement EngineerDomino Data Labs

Andrea Lowe, PhD

Andrea Lowe, PhD is the Training and Enablement Engineer at Domino Data Labs where she develops training on topics including overviews of coding in Python, machine learning, Kubernetes, and AWS. She trained over 1000 data scientists and analysts in the last year. She has previously taught courses including Numerical Methods and Data Analytics & Visualization at the University of South Florida and UC Berkeley Extension. Her conference experience includes a deep learning tutorial at PyCon, 2 invited talks, 21 poster presentations, and 4 chair positions.

Senior Machine Learning | Developer AdvocatePachyderm, Inc.

Jimmy Whitaker

Jimmy Whitaker is the Machine Learning Developer Advocate at Pachyderm, where he focuses on applied and sustainable practices for implementing the machine learning life cycle. He received his Masters in Computer Science from the University of Oxford, and previously was the Director of Applied Research at Digital Reasoning where he led R&D efforts on Speech Recognition and NLP. He has also co-authored a textbook on the topic, “Deep Learning for NLP and Speech Recognition”.

Session on Pachyderm Coming Soon!

Chief Innovation OfficerUniversity of California

Neil Sahota

Neil Sahota is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) Artificial Intelligence (AI) subject matter expert, and Professor at UC Irvine. With 20+ years of business experience, Neil works to inspire clients and business partners to foster innovation and develop next generation products/solutions powered by AI. Neil’s work experience spans multiple industries including legal services, healthcare, life sciences, retail, travel and transportation, energy and utilities, automotive, telecommunications, media/communication, and government. Moreover, he is one of the few people selected for IBM’s Corporate Service Corps leadership program that pairs leaders with NGOs to perform community-driven economic development projects. For his assignment, Neil lived and worked in Ningbo, China where he partnered with Chinese corporate CEOs to create a leadership development program. In addition, Neil partners with entrepreneurs to define their products, establish their target markets, and structure their companies. He is a member of several investor groups like the Tech Coast Angels and assists startups with investor funding. Neil also serves as a judge in various startup competitions and mentor in several incubator/accelerator programs.

Session on Responsible Ai Coming Soon!

Director | Assistant ProfessorUCLA NLP | UCLS CS

Kai-Wei Chang

Kai-Wei Chang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). His research interests include designing robust machine learning methods for large and complex data and building fair, reliable, and accountable language processing technologies for social good applications. Dr. Chang has published broadly in natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His research has been covered by news media such as Wires, NPR, and MIT Tech Review. His awards include the Sloan Research Fellowship (2021), the EMNLP Best Long Paper Award (2017), the KDD Best Paper Award (2010), and the Okawa Research Grant Award (2018). Dr. Chang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015 and was a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in 2016. Additional information is available at http://kwchang.net

Senior Software EngineerIterative

Milecia McGregor

Milecia is a senior software engineer, international tech speaker, and mad scientist that works with hardware and software. She will try to make anything with JavaScript first. 

Staff Field Data ScientistDomino Data Labs

Jennifer Dawn Davis, PhD

Jennifer Davis, Ph.D. is a Staff Field Data Scientist at Domino Data Labs, where she empowers clients on complex data science projects. She has completed two postdocs in computational and systems biology, trained at a supercomputing center at the University of Texas, Austin, and worked on hundreds of consulting projects with companies ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 100. Jennifer has previously presented topics for Association for Computing Machinery on LSTMs and Natural Language Generation and at conferences across the US and in Italy. Jennifer was part of a panel discussion for an IEEE conference on artificial intelligence in biology and medicine. She has practical experience teaching both corporate classes and at the college level.

Strategy Engineer | PMC Apache Airflow ProjectAstronomer.io

Daniel Imberman

Daniel Imberman is a PMC of the Apache Airflow project, core contributor of the KubernetesExecutor, and Strategy Engineer at Astronomer.io. He recieved a BS/MS at UC Santa Barbara with a focus in Distributed Systems and Machine Learning and is highly passionate about building the next generation of ML tooling.

Session on MLOps and Airflow Coming Soon!

 

Senior Inventive ScientistAT&T Chief Data Office

Noemi Derzsy, PhD

Noemi Derzsy is a Senior Inventive Scientist at AT&T Chief Data Office within the Data Science and AI Research organization. Her research is centered on understanding and modeling customer behavior and experience through large-scale consumer and network data, using machine learning, network analysis/modeling, Spatio-temporal mining, text mining, and natural language processing techniques.
Prior to joining AT&T, Noemi was a Data Science Fellow at Insight Data Science NYC and a postdoctoral research associate at Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics, MS in Computational Physics, and has a research background in Network Science and Computer Science.
Noemi is also involved in volunteering in the data science community. She is a NASA Datanaut and former organizer of the Data Umbrella meetup group and NYC Women in Machine Learning and Data Science meetup group.

ODSC Speaker - Victor Lo
Head of Data Science & Artificial IntelligenceFidelity Investments

Victor Lo, PhD

Victor has managed teams of quantitative analysts in multiple organizations. He is currently Senior Vice President, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Workplace Investing at Fidelity Investments. Previously he managed advanced analytics / data science teams in Personal Investing, Corporate Treasury, Managerial Finance, and Healthcare and Total Well-being at Fidelity Investments. Prior to Fidelity, he was VP and Manager of Modeling and Analysis at FleetBoston Financial (now Bank of America), and Senior Associate at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman).

For academic services, Victor is an elected board member of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), where he provides guidance to the board and general education to the statistics community. He has also been a visiting research fellow and corporate executive-in-residence at Bentley University, as well as serving on the steering committee of the Boston Chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Victor earned a master’s degree in Operational Research at Lancaster University, UK, and a PhD in Statistics at the University of Hong Kong, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Management Science at University of British Columbia. He has co-authored a graduate level econometrics book and published numerous articles in Data Science, Marketing, Statistics, and Management Science literature. and is co-authoring a graduate-level data science textbook titled “Cause-and-Effect Business Analytics.

Data and Technology Global Lead ScientistWWF

Dave Thau

Dave Thau is WWF’s Data and Technology Global Lead Scientist with him over 30 years of software development and conservation experience. He is also a member of the IPBES Knowledge and Data taskforce. Prior to WWF, Dave worked at the California Academy of Sciences, the Kansas University Museum of Natural History, and Google where he helped launch Google Earth Engine. Dave’s work focuses on the fields of data management, sustainability, artificial intelligence, and remote sensing. He holds degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Davis. He also has an ant named in his honor – the charming Plectroctena thaui.

Session on Artificial Intelligence for Conservation and Sustainability: From the Local to the Global Coming Soon!

DirectorIBM Research

Lisa Amini, PhD

Dr. Lisa Amini is the Director of IBM Research Cambridge, which is also home to the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and of IBM’s AI Horizons Network. Lisa was previously Director of Knowledge & Reasoning Research in the Cognitive Computing group at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center in New York, and she is also an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Lisa was the founding Director of IBM Research Ireland, and the first woman Lab Director for an IBM Research Global (i.e., non-US) Lab (2010-2013). In this role she developed the strategy and led researchers in advancing science and technology for intelligent urban and environmental systems (Smarter Cities), with a focus on creating analytics, optimizations, and systems for sustainable energy, constrained resources (e.g., urban water management), transportation, and the linked open data systems that assimilate and share data and models for these domains. She earned her PhD degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.

CEO and FounderEightfold.ai

Ashutosh Garg, PhD

Bio Coming Soon!

Using AI to Overcome Bias & Make Hiring More Equitable(Talk)

CEO, Security & Forensics Analyst, Incident Responder | Senior InstructorOne eSecurity | SANS Institute

Jess Garcia

Bio Coming Soon!

Session on Cybersecurity Coming Soon!

Senior Engineering ManagerYouTube

Byron Ellis

Bio Coming Soon!

Session on Streaming Analytics Coming Soon!

VP DataLeague

Kerry Weinberg

Kerry Weinberg leads Data at League, North America’s leading Health OS. Before joining League, Kerry led Data Science & Engineering for Amgen’s Digital Health & Innovation where her team applied machine learning to better understand human disease, improve Amgen’s ability to reach patients, and improve patient outcomes. Before joining Amgen, Kerry received her MBA and M.S. Biological Engineering from MIT as part of the Leaders for Global Operations Program. She previously led systems engineering efforts for high-speed cell sorters at Beckman Coulter. Kerry holds a B.S. Biological Engineering also from MIT.

Managing Partner, Principal Data Scientist | Distinguished FacultyBetaVector | General Assembly

Matt Brems

Matt currently leads instruction for GA’s Data Science Immersive in Washington, D.C. and most enjoys bridging the gap between theoretical statistics and real-world insights. Matt is a recovering politico, having worked as a data scientist for a political consulting firm through the 2016 election. Prior to his work in politics, he earned his Master’s degree in statistics from The Ohio State University. Matt is passionate about making data science more accessible and putting the revolutionary power of machine learning into the hands of as many people as possible. When he isn’t teaching, he’s thinking about how to be a better teacher, falling asleep to Netflix, and/or cuddling with his pug.

Machine LearningDigits

Hannes Hapke

Hannes Hapke works in machine learning at Digits. Prior, he was a senior machine learning scientist for Concur Labs at SAP Concurfor Concur Labs at SAP Concur, where he explored innovative ways to use machine learning to improve the experience of a business traveler. Hannes has also solved machine learning and ML infrastructure problems in various industries including healthcare, retail, recruiting, and renewable energies. He was recognized as a Google Developer Expert for ML and has co-authored two machine learning publications: “Building Machine Learning Pipeline” by O’Reilly Media and “NLP in Action” by Manning Publications.

Co-founder | Adjunct Professor | Apache Drill Project Management Committee ChairStealth Startup, GTK Cyber | University of Maryland

Charles Givre

Charles Givre recently joined JP Morgan Chase works as a data scientist and technical product manager in the cybersecurity and technology controls group. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Mr. Givre worked as a lead data scientist for Deutsche Bank. Mr. Givre worked as a Senior Lead Data Scientist for Booz Allen Hamilton for seven years where he worked in the intersection of cyber security and data science. At Booz Allen, Mr. Givre worked on one of Booz Allen’s largest analytic programs where he led data science efforts and worked to expand the role of data science in the program. Mr. Givre is passionate about teaching others data science and analytic skills and has taught data science classes all over the world at conferences, universities and for clients. Mr. Givre taught data science classes at BlackHat, the O’Reilly Security Conference, the Center for Research in Applied Cryptography and Cyber Security at Bar Ilan University. He is a sought-after speaker and has delivered presentations at major industry conferences such as Strata-Hadoop World, Open Data Science Conference and others. One of Mr. Givre’s research interests is increasing the productivity of data science and analytic teams, and towards that end, he has been working extensively to promote the use of Apache Drill in security applications and is a committer and PMC Member for the Drill project. Mr. Givre teaches online classes for O’Reilly about Drill and Security Data Science and is a coauthor for the O’Reilly book Learning Apache Drill. Prior to joining Booz Allen, Mr. Givre, worked as a counterterrorism analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency for five years. Mr. Givre holds a Masters Degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Brandeis University, as well as a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s of Music both from the University of Arizona. Mr. Givre blogs at thedataist.com and tweets @cgivre.

Data Scientist Facebook

Clinton Brownley, PhD

Clinton Brownley, Ph.D., is a data scientist at Facebook, where he’s responsible for a variety of analytics projects designed to empower employees to do their best work. Prior to this role, he was a data scientist at WhatsApp, working to improve messaging and VoIP calling performance and reliability. Before WhatsApp, he worked on large-scale infrastructure analytics projects to inform hardware acquisition, maintenance, and data center operations decisions at Facebook. As an avid student and teacher of modern analytics techniques, Clinton is the author of two books, “Foundations for Analytics with Python” and “Multi-objective Decision Analysis,” and also teaches Python programming and interactive data visualization courses at Facebook and in the Bay Area. Clinton is a past-president of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Statistical Association and is a council member for the Section on Practice of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Clinton received degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and American University.

Session on Decision Analytics Coming Soon!

Senior Machine Learning Biomedical EngineerMicrosoft CSE

Tempest Van Schaik, PhD

Tempest is passionate about improving lives using sensors, data, and AI. Some of the ways she’s driven impact have been through her startup, SoilCards, which aims to make mobile soil testing accessible to the world’s poorest farmers in order to improve their livelihood and protect the environment. She has also developed novel ways to measure cognitive function and mood in people with depression using wearables. She has used data science to improve physiotherapy for children with cystic fibrosis, and has put principles of responsible AI into practice to build predictive ICU models which treat different patient groups fairly. She is currently a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) team, where she is an ML Lead for collaborations with some of Microsoft’s biggest healthcare customers. She is a member of CSE’s Responsible AI board and a CSE ambassador for Diversity & Inclusion, because she believes in promoting positive change as a leader in the industry. She has a PhD in Bioengineering from Imperial College London, with an internship at MIT, and an Imperial College Rector’s Award. She is a Technical Advisory Board member of Ultromics Ltd as well as a TEDx and SXSW speaker. Her research has received awards from Innovate UK and the US National Academies of Science Engineering and Medic.

Responsible AI; From Principles to Practice(Talk)

Lead Strategy Planner for AI EcosystemIntel

Yashesh A. Shroff, PhD

Yashesh Shroff is a Lead Strategy Planner at Intel where he focuses on enabling the AI ecosystem on heterogeneous compute. Recently, as a product manager, he was responsible for the AI and media/game graphics software ecosystem showcasing Intel’s latest-gen graphics architecture (10nm). He has over 15 years of technical and enabling experience, spanning optical modeling, statistical analysis, and capital equipment supply chain at Intel. He has over 20 published papers and 4 patents. He has a Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley and a joint MBA from UC Berkeley Haas & Columbia Graduate School of Business.

Founder and CEO / Senior InstructorDragos, Inc. / SANS Institute

Rob Lee

Robert M. Lee is the CEO and co-founder of the ICS cybersecurity technology and services firm Dragos. He gained his start in the U.S. Air Force as a Cyber Warfare Operations Officer where he spent most of his career at the National Security Agency where he built and led a first-of-its-kind mission hunting and analyzing state actors targeting ICS. He is also a Senior Instructor at the SANS Institute where he authored the Forensics 578 course on Cyber Threat Intelligence and the ICS 515 course on ICS network monitoring and incident response. He may be found on Twitter @RobertMLee

Data Science AdvocateNeo4j

Dr. Clair J. Sullivan

Dr. Clair Sullivan is currently a graph data science advocate at Neo4j, working to expand the community of data scientists and machine learning engineers using graphs to solve challenging problems. She received her doctorate degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan in 2002. After that, she began her career in nuclear emergency response at Los Alamos National Laboratory where her research involved signal processing of spectroscopic data. She spent 4 years working in the federal government on related subjects and returned to academic research in 2012 as an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While there, her research focused on using machine learning to analyze the data from large sensor networks. Deciding to focus more on machine learning, she accepted a job at GitHub as a machine learning engineer while maintaining adjunct assistant professor status at the University of Illinois. In 2021 she joined Neo4j as a Graph Data Science Advocate. Additionally, she founded a company, La Neige Analytics, whose purpose is to provide data science expertise to the ski industry. She has authored 4 book chapters, over 20 peer-reviewed papers, and more than 30 conference papers. Dr. Sullivan was the recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2014 and the American Nuclear Society’s Mary J. Oestmann Professional Women’s Achievement Award in 2015.

Machine Learning With Graphs: Going Beyond Tabular Data(Talk)

Lead Data ScientistSilicon Valley Startup in Stealth Mode

Ravi Ilango

Ravi Ilango is a Lead Data Scientist at a silicon valley startup in stealth mode. He is passionate in developing deployable deep learning solutions. Previously he was at StatesTitle and at Foghorn Systems as a Sr. Data Scientist and has over 10 years of experience at Apple as a data Scientist & at Applied Materials in Supply Chain Program Management. Ravi has a Graduate Certificate in Data Mining & Machine Learning from Stanford and completed a Masters Program in Aeronautics and Production Engineering from IIT Madras. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering, Madras University.

Developer Relations Engineering ManagerGoogle

Karl Weinmeister

Karl Weinmeister is a Developer Relations Engineering Manager at Google, based out of Austin, Texas. Karl leads a global team of data science and ML engineering experts in the Developer Advocacy organization, who build technical assets and consult with enterprise customers on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Karl was a contributor to Proverb, an AI-based crossword puzzle solver, which competed at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.

Get Started with Time-Series Forecasting using the Google Cloud AI Platform(Workshop)

FounderStartPlaying.Games

Nathaniel Tucker

Nathaniel earned his AB/SM in Computer Science from Harvard. He previously worked as a Quant and Trader at Jane Street and Goldman Sachs before transitioning into the pure tech industry. Nathaniel worked as a Data Scientist at Facebook, a Product Manager at Microsoft and a Software Engineer at Google before joining Vicarious. He is an avid reader and learner. He teaches part time at General Assembly and is developing open source teaching material for data science, machine learning, and web development.

Technology Research DirectorElsevier Labs

Sujit Pal

Sujit Pal is an applied data scientist at Elsevier Labs, an advanced technology group within the Reed-Elsevier Group of companies. His areas of interests include Semantic Search, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. At Elsevier, he has worked on several machine learning initiatives involving large image and text corpora, and other initiatives around recommendation systems and knowledge graph development. He has co-authored Deep Learning with Keras (https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/deep-learning-keras) and Deep Learning with Tensorflow 2.x and Keras (https://www.packtpub.com/data/deep-learning-with-tensorflow-2-0-and-keras-second-edition), and writes about technology on his blog Salmon Run (https://sujitpal.blogspot.com/).

Risk Management SpecialistFederal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Lara Kattan

Lara is a Risk Management Specialist at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and occasional adjunct at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, teaching Python and R. Previously she’s taught a data science Bootcamp and built risk models for large financial institutions at McKinsey & Co.

Data Scientist Derwen, Inc.

Paco Nathan

Known as a “player/coach”, with core expertise in data science, natural language, machine learning, cloud computing; 38+ years tech industry experience, ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups. Advisor for Amplify Partners, IBM Data Science Community, Recognai, KUNGFU.AI, Primer. Lead committer PyTextRank. Formerly: Director, Community Evangelism @ Databricks, and Apache Spark. Cited in 2015 as one of the Top 30 People in Big Data and Analytics by Innovation Enterprise.

Senior SANS InstructorSANS Institute

Christopher Crowley

Christopher Crowley has 20 years of experience managing and securing networks, beginning with his first job as an Ultrix and VMS systems administrator at 15 years old. Today, Crowley is a Senior Instructor at the SANS Institute and the course author for SOC-Class.com: the culmination of his thoughts on effective cybersecurity operations.
He works with a variety of organizations across industries providing cybersecurity technical analysis, developing and publishing research, sharing expert security insights at conferences, and chairing security operations events. He has provided training to
thousands of students globally.
Crowley holds a multitude of cybersecurity industry certifications and provides independent consulting services specializing in effective computer network defense via Montance®, LLC, based in Washington, DC.

Lead Data ScientistLevi Strauss & Co

Filipa Peleja, PhD

Filipa Peleja is the Levi Strauss & Co Europe Lead Data Scientist at the Data Analytics & AI team. She has always been enthusiastic about technology where she first stepped into the tech world as an undergrad in Computer Science and later Ph.D. in the Machine Learning domain. Her academic accomplishments were recognized with the 1st prize of an industry challenge from a telco and publications in international conferences among which, top tier conferences like SIGIR and ACL. Before joining Levi, Filipa interned at Yahoo! Research and, later, worked as a Sr Data Scientist at Vodafone. Filipa loves to work in an area that she feels very passionate about and also enjoys passing along knowledge, hence, she lectures, supervises projects/thesis for CodeOp, Neueda and Barcelona Technical School.

MLOps… From Model to Production(Workshop)

Chief Data ScientistBill.com

Eitan Anzenberg, PhD

I’m the Chief Data Scientist at Bill.com and have many years of experience as a researcher. My recent focus is in machine learning, deep learning, applied statistics and software engineering. Before, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, received my PhD in Physics from Boston University and my B.S. in Astrophysics from University of California Santa Cruz. I hold 4 patents and 11 publications to date and have spoken about data at various conferences around the world.

Using Deep Learning to Understand Documents(Talk)

Sr. Data Science InstructorGalvanize, Inc.

Ryan Kasichainula

Bio Coming Soon!

Sound Classification and Detection with STFT and CNNs(Workshop)

Data Scientist | FounderThe Crosstab Kite

Brian Kent, PhD

Brian Kent is the founder of The Crosstab Kite, a publication for professional data scientists solving real-world challenges. He writes about survival analysis, data-driven decision-making, data science tools, and big picture trends in statistical modeling. Prior to The Crosstab Kite, Brian worked in the FinTech space as Director of Data Science & Machine Learning at Credit Sesame. Before that, he was a machine learning engineer at Apple, where he worked on autonomous systems, personalized health, and silicon engineering.

Applications of Modern Survival Modeling with Python(Talk)

 

Machine Learning DeveloperHanson Robotics & Kindred.Ai

Alishba Imran

Alishba is an 18-year-old machine learning and blockchain developer who was named a Young Innovator to Watch at CES in 2020. At 15, she developed Honestblocks, a blockchain platform to track medication and put an end to counterfeit medication in supply chain systems for 2 million people in rural India. Part of this platform was eventually integrated into IBM Blockchain and is being used in various supply chain applications. She has applied her skills as an intern at various startups and companies such as TD Bank, Pngme, and Vestergaard. At TD Bank, she developed a new blockchain product to securely allow 2M+ clients to store their personal, financial data and access different financial services. She has worked as an ML Developer at Hanson Robotics to develop Neuro-Symbolic AI, RL, and Generative Grasping CNN approaches for Sophia the Robot. Alishba further applied this work with a master’s student and professor at San Jose State University, with support from the BLINC Lab, to reduce cost of prosthetics from $10k to $700, and make grasping more efficient.

Machine Learning and Robotics in Healthcare Devices and Rehabilitation(Talk)

Software Developerembarc Software Consulting GmbH

Oliver Zeigermann

Oliver is a software developer from Hamburg Germany and has been a practitioner for more than 3 decades. He specializes in frontend development and machine learning. He is the author of many video courses and textbooks.

Deep Dive into Reinforcement Learning with PPO using TF-Agents & TensorFlow 2.0(Half-Day Training)

Senior Data Scientist | Data Science InstructorGalvanize Inc (part of Stride)

Rongpeng Li

Ron Li is a data science instructor and senior data scientist at Galvanize, Inc. Before that, He worked on machine learning and knowledge graphs at the Information Sciences Institute. Ron has published a 4.5-star rating book Essential Statistics for Non-STEM Data Analysts. He has also authored/co-authored several academic papers, taught data science to non-STEM professionals as pro bono service, and gave talks at conferences like PyData.

A Complete Real-Time Data Application in 90 Minutes : from Kafka to Streamlit(Workshop)

Big Data & Data Science & Analytics LeaderCisco

Kumaran Ponnambalam

Kumaran Ponnambalam is an AI and Big Data leader with 15+ years of experience. He is currently the Director of AI for Webex Contact Center at Cisco. He focuses on creating robust, scalable AI platforms and models to drive effective customer engagements. In his current and previous roles, he has built data pipelines, ML models, analytics, and integrations around customer engagement. He has also authored several courses on the LinkedIn Learning Platform in Machine Learning and Big Data areas. He holds an MS in Information Technology and advanced certificates in Deep Learning and Data Science.

 

Research Staff MemberIBM Research and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

Mikhail Yurochkin, PhD

Mikhail is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research interests are Model fusion and federated learning; Algorithmic fairness; Applications of optimal transport in machine learning; Bayesian (nonparametric) modeling and inference. Before joining IBM, he completed Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Michigan, where he worked with Long Nguyen. He received his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Data ScientistFidelity Investments

Eduardo Blancas

Eduardo is interested in developing tools to deliver reliable Machine Learning products. Towards that end, he created Ploomber, an open-source Python library to compose production-ready data workflows. Eduardo holds an M.S in Data Science from Columbia University, where he took part in Computational Neuroscience research. Eduardo started his Data Science career in 2015 at the Center for Data Science and Public Policy at The University of Chicago.

Develop and Deploy a Machine Learning Pipeline in 45 Minutes with Ploomber(Talk)

Adjunct Faculty | Network Reliability and Analytics ResearcherNorthwestern University

Veena Mendiratta, PhD

Bio Coming Soon!

Using Change Detection Algorithms for Detecting Anomalous Behavior in Large Systems(Talk)

Data Scientist | Thought Leader | AI & ML Operationalization LeaderIBM

Sourav Mazumder

Sourav Mazumder is an IBM Data Scientist Thought Leader and The Open Group Distinguished Data Scientist. Sourav has consistently driven business innovation and values through methodologies and Technologies related to Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Big Data transpired through his knowledge, insights, experience and influencing skills across multiple industries including Manufacturing, Insurance, Telecom, Banking, Media, Health Care and Retail industries in USA, Europe, Australia, Japan and India. Over the last 10 years, he has influenced key decision makers of several fortune 500 companies to adopt Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Big Data related technologies to address complex business needs. Sourav has also consistently provided directions to and successfully led numerous challenging Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Big Data projects, applying various related methodologies ranging from Descriptive statistics, Probabilistic Modelling, Algorithmic Modelling, Natural Language Processing, etc., to solve critical business problems. Sourav has also successfully partnered with academia within North America, India, South Africa to mentor students and enable them in this field. Sourav has experience and exposure in working with a variety of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Big Data related technologies such as Watson Open Scale, Watson Natural Language Processing, Watson Machine Learning, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Spark, Hadoop, BigSQL, HBase, MongoDb, Solr, System ML, Cognos, R, Python, Scala/Java and using them in projects involving phases from creation of Minimum Viable Product to Productionization at an enterprise level. Sourav is an Open Source enthusiast and contributes to Open Source regularly. Sourav holds patents in the Data and AI space (patent profile https://patents.justia.com/search?q=Sourav+Mazumder). Sourav consistently publishes papers/blogs/articles in various industry forums. Sourav is co-author, guest editor and chief editor of multiple books in AI, Data Science and Big Data space (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sourav-Mazumder). Sourav is regularly invited to speak in various Industry conferences, like Open Data Science Conference, Spark Summit, IBM Think, Global AI Conference, etc in this subject area. He can be found on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/souravmazumder/)

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Olaf de Leeuw

As a graduated Mathematician I’m particularly interested in the techniques and math behind algorithms. How do they search for the optimal solution and why is one algorithm faster than the other? In my work as a Data Scientist I develop algorithms or adapt existing solutions to customer needs and put them into production such they can get the most value out of it. In my own time I love to read popular scientific articles or books about mathematics, physics or astrophysics. Besides this I love traveling and cycling.

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Ajay K Baranwal is the Center Director at CDLe (Center for Deep Learning in Electronics Manufacturing). He leads applied data science research and development efforts to solve electronics and semiconductor manufacturing problems. Many of his work at the Center relates to machine vision, learning from limited data, and building digital twins to synthesize new data. Before the Center, he has worked on several TensorFlow-based applications, including a Prediction and Diagnostic system, a Document retrieval, and an information extraction system. He holds multiple patents, is coauthor of industrial papers and has been a speaker at related conferences. He is also a co-author of a book named “What’s new in TensorFlow 2.0.”

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