Prof. Zheng-Hua Tan is a Professor of Machine Learning and Speech Processing, a Co-Head of the Centre for Acoustic Signal Processing Research (CASPR), and Machine Learning Research Group Leader in the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University, Denmark. Prof. Zheng-Hua Tan was a Visiting Scientist/Professor at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and a postdoctoral fellow at AI Spoken Language Lab, in the Department of Computer Science at KAIST, Korea. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Hunan University, China, in 1990 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 1999. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, speech and speaker recognition, noise-robust speech processing, multimodal signal processing, and social robotics. He has over 200 publications. He edited the book Automatic Speech Recognition on Mobile Devices and over Communication Networks (Springer, 2008). He is the elected Chair of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING. He has served as an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor for several journals including Computer Speech and Language, and Digital Signal Processing. He was a Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of STSP and a Guest Editor of several journals including Neurocomputing. He was the General Chair of IEEE 28th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2018), Aalborg, Denmark, and was a Program Co-Chair for IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2016), San Diego, California, USA. He has served as a Chair, Program Co-chair, Area and Session Chair, and Tutorial Speaker of many international conferences. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Daniel Michelsanti is an Industrial Postdoctoral Researcher at Demant and Aalborg University. He has a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering obtained at Aalborg University. Currently, he is investigating cutting-edge technologies for next-generation hearing assistive devices, with the goal of improving the life quality of people with hearing loss.

Leonardo De Marchi holds a Master in Artificial intelligence and has worked as a Data Scientist in the sports world, with clients such as the New York Knicks and Manchester United, and with large social networks, like Justgiving.

He now works as Head of Data Scientist and Analytics in Badoo, the largest dating site with over 420 million users. He is also the lead instructor at ideai.io, a company specialized in Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning training.

Olivier Grisel is a machine learning engineer at Inria. He is a member of the team of maintainers of the scikit-learn project. Scikit-learn is an Open Source machine learning library written in Python. His work is supported by the Fondation Inria and its partners

Anuj Gupta is a head the Machine Learning and Data Science teams at Vahan. Prior to this, he was heading ML efforts for Intuit, Huawei Technologies, Freshworks, Chennai and Airwoot, Delhi. He did his masters in theoretical computer science from IIIT Hyderabad and he dropped out of his Phd from IIT Delhi to work with startups.
He is a regular speaker at ML conferences like Pydata, Nvidia forums, Fifth Elephant, Anthill. He has also conducted a bunch of workshop attended by machine learning practitioners. He is also the co-organizer for one of the early Deep Learning meetups in Bangalore.  He is also Editor of “”Anthill-2018″” – deep learning focused conference by HasGeek.

Stefanie Molin is a data scientist and software engineer at Bloomberg in New York City, where she tackles tough problems in information security, particularly those revolving around anomaly detection, building tools for gathering data, and knowledge sharing. She is also the author of “Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas,” which is currently on in its second edition. She holds a bachelor’s of science degree in operations research from Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in computer science, with a specialization in machine learning, from Georgia Tech. In her free time, she enjoys traveling the world, inventing new recipes, and learning new languages spoken among both people and computers.

Jaime Buelta has been a professional programmer since 2002 and a full-time Python developer since 2010. He has developed software for a variety of fields, focusing, in the last 10 years, on developing web services in Python in the gaming and finance industries. He is a strong proponent of automating everything to make computers do most of the heavy lifting, so humans can focus on the important stuff. He published his first book, “Python Automation Cookbook”, in 2018 (now updated recently with an extended second edition), followed by “Hands-On Docker for Microservices with Python” the following year. He is currently working as Software Architect in Double Yard in Dublin, Ireland, and is a regular speaker at PyCon Ireland.

Stefan is the founder and Lead Data Scientist at Applied AI. He advises Fortune 500 companies, investment firms and startups across industries on data & AI strategy, building data science teams, and developing machine learning solutions. Before his current venture, he was a partner and managing director at an international investment firm where he built the predictive analytics and investment research practice. He also was a senior executive at a global fintech company with operations in 15 markets.
Earlier, he advised Central Banks in emerging markets, worked for the World Bank, raised $35m from the Gates Foundation to cofound the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, and has worked in six languages across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Stefan holds Master degrees in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and in Economics from Harvard and Free University Berlin and is a CFA Charterholder. He is the author for ‘Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading’ and has been teaching data science at Datacamp and General Assembly.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson is Head of Data Science Evangelism and VP of Marketing at Coiled, a company that makes it simple for organizations to scale their data science and machine learning in Python. He has extensive experience as a data scientist, educator, evangelist, content marketer, and a data strategy consultant at DataCamp, the online education platform for all things data. He also has experience teaching basic to advanced data science topics at institutions such as Yale University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, conferences such as SciPy, PyCon, and ODSC and with organizations such as Data Carpentry. He has developed over 30 courses on the DataCamp platform, impacting over 500,000 learners worldwide through his own courses. He also created the weekly data industry podcast DataFramed, which he hosted and produced for 2 years. He is committed to spreading data skills, access to data science tooling, and open-source software, both for individuals and the enterprise.

Bogumił Kamiński is Head of Decision Analysis and Support Unit at Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, and Adjunct Professor at Data Science Laboratory, Ryerson University, Canada. His research interests are techniques of large scale mathematical modelling of complex systems combining simulation, optimization, and machine learning. A particular area of his expertise are agent based simulation and modeling and analysis of complex networks.

Bogumił is one of the core developers of DataFrames.jl package for data wrangling in the Julia language. He is also a top answerer for the [julia] tag on StackOverflow and regularly discusses a wide range of data science related topics on his blog https://bkamins.github.io/.

Yamini Rao is a Developer Advocate for IBM. She complies various developer scenarios and training material, including demos, writing blog posts, creating audio-visual artefacts and giving hands-on workshops and training sessions based on IBM Cloud technologies. She works with various developer communities across the UK. As a developer advocate, Yamini is involved in public speaking engagements at conferences and meetups and also organises some of these events as part of the role. The other part of Advocacy involves closing the loop, to collect feedback from the developer community about how they are using the technology and channel this back to the engineering and product management teams. She has a background in computer science and has previously worked as an Implementation Engineer for various IBM Analytical tools.

Daria Stepanova is a research scientist at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. Her research interests include Knowledge Representation and Reasoning with the special focus on automatic acquisition of rules from structured knowledge. Previously Daria was a senior researcher at Max Plank Institute for Informatics (Germany), where she was heading a group on Semantic Data. Daria got her diploma degree in Applied Computer Science from the department of Mathematics and Mechanics of St. Petersburg State University (Russia) in 2010 and a PhD in Computational Logic from Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in 2015. Before starting her PhD she worked as a visiting researcher at the school of Computing Science at Newcastle University (UK) in an industrially-oriented project.

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Daniel is a data scientist, teacher, and author of “Deep Learning with PyTorch Step-by-Step: A Beginner’s Guide”.
He has been teaching machine learning and distributed computing technologies at Data Science Retreat, the longest-running Berlin-based bootcamp, since 2016, helping more than 150 students advance their careers. Daniel is also the main contributor of two Python packages: HandySpark and DeepReplay.
His professional background includes 20 years of experience working for companies in several industries: banking, government, fintech, retail, and mobility.

Guglielmo is part of MSD (Merck & Co. in North America). He is currently busy unlocking business value through Computer Vision and other ML/DL/AI applications to the biotech manufacturing space. He has an extensive background in Software Engineering and Data Science across other big organizations including IBM, Optum and FAO of the UN in diverse contexts (such as Healthcare, DevOps, Cyber Security). Guglielmo has been recognized as DataOps Champion at the Streamsets DataOps Summit 2019 and awarded as one of the Top 50 Tech Visionaries at the 2019 Dubai Intercon Conference. Since 2018 he is also an international speaker (almost 30 international conferences so far, including Big Things 2019 and 2020, Spark+AI Summit 2019, Annual Cyber Security and AI Summit 2019 and 2020), author of a tech book on distributed Deep Learning with Apache Spark and planning about a second tech book which should be probably released at the end of 2021.

Joaquin Vanschoren is Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research focuses on machine learning, meta-learning, and understanding and automating learning. He founded and leads OpenML.org, an open science platform for machine learning. He received several demo and open data awards, has been tutorial speaker at NeurIPS and ECMLPKDD, and invited speaker at ECDA, StatComp, AutoML@ICML, CiML@NIPS, DEEM@SIGMOD, AutoML@PRICAI, MLOSS@NIPS, and many other occasions. He was general chair at LION 2016, program chair of Discovery Science 2018, demo chair at ECMLPKDD 2013, and he co-organizes the AutoML and meta-learning workshop series at NIPS and ICML. He is also co-editor of the book ’Automatic Machine Learning: Methods, Systems, Challenges’.

Pieter Gijsbers is a Ph.D. student at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His areas of interest are automated machine learning and meta-learning. He is the main author of GAMA, a research-focused open-source AutoML tool. While GAMA is easy to use for end-users, it also allows researchers to try different search techniques and visualize the optimization process. He is a co-author of the Open Source AutoML Benchmark. He is also part of the team working on the openml-python package, providing an easy to use Python interface to OpenML.

A former theoretical physicist turned machine learning engineer, Olga is now building a smart data annotation platform at Scaleway as a technical product manager. On the community side, she enjoys blogging about the latest advancements in AI both in and out of working hours. Some of her writing can be seen on medium.com/@olgapetrova_92798.

Alex Honchar is a tech entrepreneur and educator. Currently, he is co-founder and ML director at Neurons Lab – a consulting firm specializing in healthcare, finance, and IoT. Also, he writes a popular blog on Medium about machine learning applications and leadership. Previously he worked as an independent consultant with SMBs and startups on rapid go-to-market ML solutions and taught machine learning courses at the University of Verona and Ukrainian Catholic University.

Julia Schulte-Cloos is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded LMU Research Fellow at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science at LMU Munich. Her main research interests lie in comparative politics, political behavior, research methodology, and reproducibility. Julia Schulte-Cloos has earned her PhD from the European University Institute.

I joined the Center for Environmental Policy (CEP), Imperial College London as a Research Fellow in 2018. Before that, I completed a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2017 where I focussed on implementing data science techniques for quantifying the impact of forest loss on tropical ecosystems. I hold an MPhil (School of Geography and Environment) and an MSc (Department of Engineering) from Oxford University. I have nearly 10 year’s experience in conducting academic research at the interface of tropical ecology, data science, earth observation (EO) and artificial intelligence (AI)and published 14 first author peer-reviewed papers in international journals since 2013 including PLoS One. I have obtained research funding of approximately £275,000 since 2018 and provided research, consultancy and data science support to startups and industry partners including Treeconomy and Morphobotics LLC. I am a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society (RGS)and Royal Statistical Society (RSS) as well as serving as an Associate Fellow at the Data Science Institute, Imperial College London. I am also a best selling course-instructor on the online MOOC platform Udemy where I provide online teaching to more than 71,000 students from across the world on machine learning, earth observation and deep learning related topic

Isaiah Hull is a senior economist in the research division of Sweden’s Central Bank (Sveriges Riksbank). He holds a PhD in economics from Boston College and conducts research on computational economics, machine learning, and quantum computing. He is also the instructor for DataCamp’s “Introduction to TensorFlow in Python” course and the author of “Machine Learning for Economics in Finance in TensorFlow 2.”

Luis spent his education and early career in the realm of Transport (Civil Engineering Diploma, MSc Transport from Imperial College London, French Civil Aviation Authority) but he took the train of data science and machine learning in 2014 with Kaggle and Coursera as teachers. He spent about 3 years as a Data Scientist at Quantmetry, a Data Science and AI Consultancy based in Paris where he helped several big companies in multiple sectors develop solutions involving Natural Language Processing, Geospatial data, and Time series. He has recently joined Dataswati to take the lead of the Data Science team. At Dataswati, they develop a SAAS called PowerOP that offers agro-industrial companies easy integration and visualization of their production data as well as explainable and actionable AI services like quality analysis, smart alerting and recipe or settings recommendation.

Lukas Csoka, working as Head Big Data Foundations in Swiss Re, one of the biggest global reinsurers, combines data science, consultative thinking and business partnering as the main skills used daily in his job to push design and develop new AI products. His MS in software engineering from Slovak University of Technology and MBA in global management from City University of Seattle are supporting him during this journey. His projects include innovative solutions for farmers using satellites, the application of predictive methods to manage costs inside Swiss Re or the analysis of thousands of client meetings from text and the provision of recommendations to Swiss Re’s traders and many others.

Ramon van den Akker works as a data scientist at the AI Center of Excellence and the Risk Modelling departments of de Volksbank, a Dutch retail bank located in Utrecht. He also works, as an associate professor, at the econometrics group of Tilburg University. His research interests cover various fields in data science, machine learning, econometrics and statistics and his research findings have been published in leading journal in econometrics and statistics. In his work at de Volksbank, Ramon mainly works on data science projects and the exploration of new opportunities, but also on governance aspects like frameworks for responsible AI & data science and the use of privacy-preserving data analytics.

Daan Knoope works as an AI Engineer at de Volksbank, the Dutch parent company of several banks and mortgage providers. He has a background in Computer Science (MSc) and has specialized in Algorithmic Data Analysis. During his studies, he researched the application of Dynamic Bayesian Networks on practical use cases to help further the development of explainable AI. Currently, he is focusing on developing AI-models for the bank as well as providing fellow AI Engineers the tools they need to efficiently explore data and build production-ready models

Joris Krijger (1991) works as an Ethics & AI specialist at the Dutch bank de Volksbank while also holding a PhD position at the Erasmus University Rotterdam on that topic. He has a background in Economic Psychology (MA), Philosophy (MA) and Film and Literary Studies (BA) and studied in Glasgow, Buenos Aires and Leiden, where he was awarded a national thesis prize in 2017 by the Royal Dutch Society of the Sciences for his graduation thesis on technology ethics and the financial crisis of 2008. He co-founded high-tech startup Condi Food (Rabobank Wijffels Innovation Award 2014) and was involved in various biomedical initiatives related to bacteriophages. He presently works on bridging the gap between principle and practice in AI Ethics by studying the operationalization of ethical principles from an academic and practical perspective and is reviewer for the AI Ethics Journal, Subject Matter Expert for CertNexus’ ‘Certified Ethical Emerging Technologist’ and Editorial Board Member for Springer’s AI and Ethics Journal.

At Scaleout, we are solving the data access challenge in AI. We are developing a world-leading solution for federated learning. In federated learning, you distribute the training of machine learning models to the data. You avoid collecting all data in one place.

Daniel is the CEO and co-founder of Scaleout and has a long background as an entrepreneur and leader in deep tech companies. He co-founded Scandinavia’s first personal DNA-testing company in 2008, was CTO at a multinational growing medtech company for 7 years, and then co-founded the first international accelerator for blockchain startups. As CTO and CEO, he has many years of experience in leading deep tech projects and taking them to market.

Alex is a principal investigator at the University of Oxford, leading a group focused on integrative computational biology and machine learning in the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine. In past, he did his undergraduate studies in pharmaceutical sciences with a research focus on quantum/structural chemistry and NMR spectroscopy. He next moved to the University of Cambridge, first obtaining an MPhil degree in computational biology (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics), followed by a PhD in theoretical chemical biology (Department of Chemistry). He then became an interdisciplinary research fellow in computational genomics and epigenetics (Department of Chemistry and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute), before joining the University of Oxford. His research aims at combining machine learning, computational biology, computational chemistry, data from experimental genomics and biophysical techniques to reach a new level of precision in biology at both genome and proteome levels.

Asger holds a master of Computer Science and has for many years been leading software development teams as the CTO of several startup companies. Following that he has been helping many of the biggest enterprises around the world becoming successful with monitoring critical application services in production, and today at DataRobot he is focused on bringing some of the best practices from the DevOps world into the new growing field of MLOps, where some of the principles can be reused but where there is also a great need to have AI and Machine Learning specific capabilities to be able to scale in a standardised and governed way.

Qian Zhao is a London-based data scientist at DataRobot who helps fintech, banking, and healthcare customers accelerate their machine learning capabilities by using the DataRobot platform. Before he joined DataRobot, Qian was a data science manager at PwC and Deloitte, where he led a team of data scientists, delivering innovative and cutting-edge AI and machine learning solutions to enterprise businesses. Qian received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCL in 2012.

Pavel Ustinov is a Lead AI Engineer at DataRobot, where he applies his scientific background and more than 15 years’ experience in software engineering to successfully deliver end-to-end Augmented Intelligence solutions driven by the DataRobot platform. He takes care of EMEA region customers. Pavel began his career as a researcher in the nonlinear dynamics of energy conversion systems before moving to the software engineering and machine learning industry. Prior to joining DataRobot, he also spent time at Anaplan, Société Générale CIB, BNP Paribas Securities Services, and ML/DL startups holding senior/leading technical positions and delivering large scale analytical projects. Pavel received his PhD from Orel State Technical University (Orel, Russia) in Automation and Control of Industrial Systems and PhD from University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (Reims, France) in Computer Science, Automation and Signal Processing. When not working out over technology he enjoys a high altitude mountaineering.

Yaron Haviv is a serial entrepreneur who has been applying his deep technological experience in data, cloud, AI and networking to leading startups and enterprise companies since the late 1990s. As the co-founder and CTO of Iguazio, Yaron drives the strategy for the company’s data science platform and leads the shift towards real-time AI. He also initiated and built Nuclio, a leading open source serverless platform with over 3,400 Github stars and MLRun, Iguazio’s open source MLOps orchestration framework.

Prior to co-founding Iguazio in 2014, Yaron was the Vice President of Datacenter Solutions at Mellanox (now NVIDIA), where he led technology innovation, software development and solution integrations. He was also the CTO and Vice President of R&D at Voltaire, a high-performance computing, IO and networking company which floated on the NYSE in 2007. Yaron is an active contributor to the CNCF Working Group and was one of the foundation’s first members. He presents at major industry events and writes tech content for leading publications including TheNewStack, Hackernoon, DZone, Towards Data Science and more.

Ivana is a data scientist, passionate about machine learning and artificial intelligence. As part of the Data Science and Strategy competence center at element61, she helps organizations build and grow business with data. Ivana is an engineering professional with a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from KU Leuven.

Karol Przystalski obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science in 2015 at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He is the CTO and founder of Codete where he’s leading and mentoring teams as they work with Fortune 500 companies on data science projects. He also built a research lab for machine learning methods and big data solutions at Codete. Karol gives speeches and trainings in data science with a focus on applied machine learning in German, Polish, and English.

Jo-fai (or Joe) has multiple roles (data scientist / evangelist / community manager) at H2O.ai. Since joining the company in 2016, Joe has delivered H2O talks/workshops in 40+ cities around Europe, US, and Asia. Nowadays, he is best known as the H2O #360Selfie guy. He is also the co-organiser of H2O’s EMEA meetup groups including London Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning – one of the biggest data science communities in the world with more than 11,000 members (https://www.meetup.com/London-Artificial-Intelligence-Deep-Learning/).

Jeffrey is a VP of Data Science, Data Engineering, and Platform Engineering at the Store Associate Technology of Walmart Global Technology. His prior roles include the Chief Data Scientist at AllianceBernstein, a global asset-management firm that managed nearly $700 billion, Vice President and Head of Data Science at Silicon Valley Data Science, and senior leadership position at Charles Schwab Corporation and KPMG. He has also taught econometrics, statistics, and machine learning at UC Berkeley, Cornell, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, and Virginia Tech. Jeffrey is active in the data science community and often speaks at data science conferences and local events. He has many years of experience in applying a wide range of econometric and machine learning techniques to create analytic solutions for financial institutions, businesses, and policy institutions. Jeffrey holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from UCLA.

Dr. Hao Ni is an associate professor in financial mathematics at UCL and a Turing fellow at Alan Turing Institute since September 2016. Prior to this Dr. Hao Ni was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at ICERM and Department of Applied Mathematics at Brown University from 2012/09 to 2013/05 and continued her postdoctoral research at the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance until 2016. Dr. Hao Ni finished her D.Phil. in mathematics in 2012 under the supervision of Professor Terry Lyons at University of Oxford.

Magda is a full stack developer at Valohai and one of the organizers of the Turku.py Python meetup. She is passionate about open source, open data and MLOps.

Soon-Yau Cheong is the founder of Sooner.ai. It helps businesses to devise and implement AI strategies. Past projects include helping ARM to research using computer vision in automotive camera, and scaling up federated learning software infrastructure with Samsung Research. He has a wide interest in many AI domains including computer vision, NLP and productizing AI. Soon-Yau is also the author of “Hands-on Image Generation with TensorFlow” where he implemented many state-of-the-art models from scratch.

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.

Chaitanya Kumar is a Machine Learning Engineer with the Real World AI team in the IBM Research Singapore Lab, where his work focuses on Federated Learning. Owing to his background in distributed systems, he contributes to the orchestration and deployment of Federated Learning pipelines.

Dr. Laura Wynter is the head of the RealWorld AI team at the IBM Research Singapore Lab. Laura has degrees from MIT and the Ecole des Ponts (Paris, France). Her areas of expertise involve the use of AI as well as optmization, equilibrium modeling and statistics-based methods for enabling effective real-time decision making for planning and operational problems in numerous domains. She has been named an IBM Master Inventor. Her work spans the full lifecycle of a research solution from the definition of the research problem and its characterization, to the development of effective algorithms, to collaborations with the IBM software division culminating in the creation of commercial software products from the models and algorithms developed.

Alex Peattie is the co-founder and CTO of Peg, a technology platform helping multinational brands and agencies to find and work with top YouTubers. Peg is used by over 1500 organisations worldwide including Coca-Cola, L’Oreal and Google.

An experienced digital entrepreneur, Alex spent six years as a developer and consultant for the likes of Grubwithus, Huckberry, UNICEF and Nike, before joining coding bootcamp Makers Academy as senior coach, where he trained hundreds of junior developers. Alex was also a technical judge at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

Chandra Khatri is the Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Got It AI, wherein, his team is transforming the AI space by leveraging state-of-the-art technologies in order to deliver Self-Discovering, Self-Training, and Self-Optimizing products. Under his leadership, Got It AI is democratizing Conversational AI and related ecosystems through automation. Prior to Got-It, Chandra was leading various kinds of applied research projects at Uber AI such as Conversational AI, Multi-modal AI, and Recommendation Systems.

Prior to Uber AI, he was the founding member of the Alexa Prize Competition at Amazon, wherein he was leading the R&D and got the opportunity to significantly advance the field of Conversational AI, particularly Open-domain Dialog Systems, which is considered as the holy-grail of Conversational AI and is one of the open-ended problems in AI. Prior to Alexa AI, he was driving NLP, Deep Learning, and Recommendation Systems related Applied Research at eBay. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a specialization in Deep Learning in 2015 and holds an undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani, India.

His current areas of research include Artificial and General Intelligence, Democratization of AI, Reinforcement Learning, Language Understanding, Conversational AI, Multi-modal and Human-agent Interactions, and Introducing Common Sense within Artificial Agents.

Gabriel is the founder of Scalar Research, a full-service artificial intelligence & data science consulting firm. Scalar helps companies tackle complex business challenges with data-driven solutions leveraging cutting-edge machine learning and advanced analytics.

Previously, Gabriel was a B.S. & M.S. student in computer science at Stanford, where he conducted research on computer vision, deep learning, and quantum computing. He’s also spent time at Google, Facebook, startups, and investment firms.