The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This W...

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are dramatically changing the way businesses operate and people live. The TWIML AI Podcast brings the top minds and ideas from the world of ML and AI to a broad and influential community of ML/AI researchers, data scientists, engineers and tech-savvy business and IT leaders. Hosted by Sam Charrington, a sought after industry analyst, speaker, commentator and thought leader. Technologies covered include machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing, neural networks, analytics, computer science, data science and more.

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Machine Learning at GitHub with Omoju Miller - ...
Today we’re joined by Omoju Miller, a Sr. machine learning engineer at GitHub. In our conversation, we discuss: Her dissertation, Hiphopathy, A Socio-Curricular Study of Introductory Computer Science,  Her work as an inaugural member of the...
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Using AI to Diagnose and Treat Neurological Dis...
Today we’re joined by Archana Venkataraman, John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and MIT 35 innovators under 35 recipient. Archana’s research at the Neural Systems Analysis...
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Deep Learning for Earthquake Aftershock Pattern...
Today we are joined by Phoebe DeVries, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard and assistant faculty at the University of Connecticut and Brendan Meade, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and affiliate...
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Live from TWIMLcon! Operationalizing Responsibl...
An often forgotten about topic garnered high praise at TWIMLcon this month: operationalizing responsible and ethical AI. This important topic was combined with an impressive panel of speakers, including: Rachel Thomas, Director, Center for Applied...
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Live from TWIMLcon! Scaling ML in the Tradition...
In this episode from a stellar TWIMLcon panel, the state and future of larger, more established brands is analyzed and discussed. Hear from Amr Awadallah, Founder and Global CTO of Cloudera, Pallav Agrawal, Director of Data Science at Levi Strauss...
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Live from TWIMLcon! Culture & Organization for ...
TWIMLcon brought together so many in the ML/AI community to discuss the unique challenges to building and scaling machine learning platforms. In this episode, hear from a diverse set of panelists including: Pardis Noorzad, Data Science Manager at...
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Live from TWIMLcon! Use-Case Driven ML Platform...
Franziska Bell, Ph.D., is the Director of Data Science Platforms at Uber, and joined Sam on stage at TWIMLcon last week to discuss all things platform at Uber. With the goal of providing cutting edge data science company-wide at the push of a button,...
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Live from TWIMLcon! Operationalizing ML at Scal...
The live interviews from TWIMLcon continue with Hussein Mehanna, Head of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at Cruise. From his start at Facebook and then Google and now to Cruise, leading the trend of autonomous vehicles, Hussein has seen...
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Live from TWIMLcon! Encoding Company Culture in...
In this episode, Sam is joined by Deepak Agarwal, VP of Engineering at LinkedIn, who graced the stage at TWIMLcon: AI Platforms for a keynote interview. In this episode Deepak shares: The incredible impact that standardizing processes and tools...
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Live from TWIMLcon! Overcoming the Barriers to ...
Earlier today, Andrew Ng joined us onstage at TWIMLcon to share some of his immense knowledge. As the Founder and CEO of Landing AI, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera, and founding lead of Google Brain, Andrew is no stranger to knowing what it...
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The Future of Mixed-Autonomy Traffic with Alexa...
Today we are joined by Alexandre Bayen, Director of the Institute for Transportation Studies and Professor at UC Berkeley.In this episode, we discuss Alex’s background in machine learning, his current research in mixed-autonomy traffic, and the idea...
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Logistics at In...
Today we are joined by Karim Beguir, Co-Founder and CEO of InstaDeep, a company in Tunisia, Africa focusing on building advanced decision-making systems for the enterprise. In this episode, we discuss where his and InstaDeep’s journey began in...
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Deep Learning with Structured Data w/ Mark Ryan...
Today we're joined by Mark Ryan, author of Deep Learning with Structured Data, currently in the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP), due for publication in Spring 2020. While working on the Support team at IBM Data and AI, he saw that there was a lack...
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Time Series Clustering for Monitoring Fueling I...
Today we're joined by Kalai Ramea, Data Scientist at PARC, a Xerox Company. With a background in transportation, energy efficiency, art, and machine learning, Kalai has been fortunate enough to follow her passions through her work. In this episode we...
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Swarm AI for Event Outcome Prediction with Greg...
Today we're joined by Gregg Willcox, Director of Research and Development at Unanimous AI. Inspired by the natural phenomenon called 'swarming', which uses the collective intelligence of a group to produce more accurate results than an individual...
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Rebooting AI: What's Missing, What's Next with ...
Today we're joined by Gary Marcus, CEO and Founder at Robust.AI, former CEO and Founder of Geometric Intelligence (acquired by Uber) and well-known scientist, bestselling author, professor and entrepreneur. In this episode hear Gary discuss: His...
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DeepQB: Deep Learning to Quantify Quarterback D...
Today we're joined by Brian Burke, Analytics Specialist with the Stats & Information Group at ESPN. A former Navy pilot and lifelong football fan, Brian saw the correlation between fighter pilots and quarterbacks in the quick, pressure-filled...
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Measuring Performance Under Pressure Using ML w...
Today we're joined by Lotte Bransen, Scientific Researcher at SciSports. With a background in mathematics, econometrics and soccer, Lotte has honed her research on analytics of the game and its players. More specifically, using trained models to...
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Managing Deep Learning Experiments with Lukas B...
Today we're joined by Lukas Biewald, CEO and Co-Founder of Weights & Biases. Lukas, previously CEO and Founder of Figure Eight (CrowdFlower), has a straightforward goal: provide researchers with SaaS that is easy to install, simple to operate, and...
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Re-Architecting Data Science at iRobot with Ang...
Today we’re joined by Angela Bassa, Director of Data Science at iRobot. In our conversation, Angela and I discuss: • iRobot's re-architecture, and a look at the evolution of iRobot. • Where iRobot gets its data from and how they taxonomize data...
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Disentangled Representations & Google Research ...
Today we’re joined by Olivier Bachem, a research scientist at Google AI on the Brain team. Initially, Olivier joined us to discuss his work on Google’s research football project, their foray into building a novel reinforcement learning...
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Neural Network Quantization and Compression wit...
Today we’re joined by Tijmen Blankevoort, a staff engineer at Qualcomm, who leads their compression and quantization research teams. Tijmen is also co-founder of ML startup Scyfer, along with Qualcomm colleague Max Welling, who we spoke with back on...
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Identifying New Materials with NLP with Anubhav...
Today we are joined by Anubhav Jain, Staff Scientist & Chemist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Anubhav leads the Hacker Materials Research Group, where his research focuses on applying computing to accelerate the process of finding new...
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The Problem with Black Boxes with Cynthia Rudin...
You asked, we listened! Today, by listener request, we are joined by Cynthia Rudin, Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistical Science at Duke University. Cynthia is passionate about machine learning and social...
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Human-Robot Interaction and Empathy with Kate D...
Today we’re joined by Dr. Kate Darling, Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab. Kate’s focus is on robot ethics and interaction, namely the social implication of how people treat robots and the purposeful design of robots in our daily lives....
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