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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Automated ML for RNA Design with Danny Stoll - ...
Today we’re joined by Danny Stoll, Research Assistant at the University of Freiburg. Since high school, Danny has been fascinated by Deep Learning which has grown into a desire to make machine learning available to anyone with interest. Danny’s...
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Developing a brain atlas using deep learning wi...
Today we’re joined by Theofanis Karayannis, Assistant Professor at the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich. Theo’s research is currently focused on understanding how circuits in the brain are formed during development and modified...
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Environmental Impact of Large-Scale NLP Model T...
Today we’re joined by Emma Strubell, currently a visiting scientist at Facebook AI Research. Emma’s focus is on NLP and bringing state of the art NLP systems to practitioners by developing efficient and robust machine learning models. Her paper,...
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“Fairwashing” and the Folly of ML Solutionism w...
Today we’re joined by Zachary Lipton, Assistant Professor in the Tepper School of Business. With an overarching theme of data quality and interpretation, Zachary's research and work is focused on machine learning in healthcare, with the goal of not...
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Retinal Image Generation for Disease Discovery ...
Today we’re joined by Dr. Stephen Odaibo, Founder and CEO of RETINA-AI Health Inc. Stephen’s unique journey to machine learning and AI includes degrees in math, medicine and computer science, which led him to an ophthalmology practice before...
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Real world model explainability with Rayid Ghan...
Today we’re joined by Rayid Ghani, Director of the Center for Data Science and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Rayid’s goal is to combine his skills in machine learning and data with his desire to improve public policy and the social...
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Inspiring New Machine Learning Platforms w/ Bio...
Today we’re joined by Michael Levin, Director of the Allen Discovery Institute at Tufts University. Michael joined us back at NeurIPS to discuss his invited talk “What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Beyond the Nervous System as...
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Simulation and Synthetic Data for Computer Visi...
Today we’re joined by Batu Arisoy, Research Manager with the Vision Technologies & Solutions team at Siemens Corporate Technology. Currently, Batu’s research focus is solving limited data computer vision problems, providing R&D for many of...
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Spiking Neural Nets and ML as a Systems Challen...
Today we’re joined by Jeff Gehlhaar, VP of Technology and Head of AI Software Platforms at Qualcomm. As we’ve explored in our conversations with both Gary Brotman and Max Welling, Qualcomm has a hand in tons of machine learning research and...
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Transforming Oil & Gas with AI with Adi Bhashya...
Today we’re joined by return guest Daniel Jeavons, GM of Data Science at Shell, and Adi Bhashyam, GM of Data Science at C3, who we had the pleasure of speaking to at this years C3 Transform Conference. In our conversation, we discuss: • The...
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Fast Radio Burst Pulse Detection with Gerry Zha...
Today we’re joined by Yunfan Gerry Zhang, a PhD student in the Department of Astrophysics at UC Berkely, and an affiliate of Berkeley’s SETI research center. In our conversation, we discuss:  • Gerry's research on applying machine...
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Tracking CO2 Emissions with Machine Learning wi...
Today we’re joined by Laurence Watson, Co-Founder and CTO of Plentiful Energy and a former data scientist at Carbon Tracker. In our conversation, we discuss: • Carbon Tracker's goals, and their report “Nowhere to hide: Using satellite imagery to...
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Topic Modeling for Customer Insights at USAA wi...
Today we’re joined by William Fehlman, director of data science at USAA. We caught up with William a while back to discuss: His work on topic modeling, which USAA uses in various scenarios, including chat channels with members via mobile and...
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Phronesis of AI in Radiology with Judy Gichoya ...
Today we’re joined by Judy Gichoya an interventional radiology fellow at the Dotter Institute at Oregon Health and Science University. In our conversation, we discuss: • Judy's research in “Phronesis of AI in Radiology: Superhuman meets Natural...
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The Ethics of AI-Enabled Surveillance with Kare...
Today we’re joined by Karen Levy, assistant professor in the department of information science at Cornell University. Karen’s research focuses on how rules and technologies interact to regulate behavior, especially the legal, organizational, and...
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Supporting Rapid Model Development at Two Sigma...
Today we’re joined by Matt Adereth, managing director of investments at Two Sigma, and return guest Scott Clark, co-founder and CEO of SigOpt, to discuss: • The end to end modeling platform at Two Sigma, who it serves, and challenges faced in...
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Scaling Model Training with Kubernetes at Strip...
Today we’re joined by Kelley Rivoire, engineering manager working on machine learning infrastructure at Stripe. Kelley and I caught up at a recent Strata Data conference to discuss: • Her talk "Scaling model training: From flexible training APIs...
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Productizing ML at Scale at Twitter with Yi Zhu...
Today we continue our AI Platforms series joined by Yi Zhuang, Senior Staff Engineer at Twitter & Tech Lead for Machine Learning Core Environment at Twitter Cortex. In our conversation, we cover:  • The machine learning landscape at...
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Snorkel: A System for Fast Training Data Creati...
Today we’re joined by Alex Ratner, Ph.D. student at Stanford. In our conversation, we discuss: • Snorkel, the open source framework that is the successor to Stanford's Deep Dive project. • How Snorkel is used as a framework for creating...
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Advancing Autonomous Vehicle Development Using ...
In this, the kickoff episode of AI Platforms Vol. 2, we're joined by Adrien Gaidon, Machine Learning Lead at Toyota Research Institute. Adrien and I caught up to discuss his team’s work on deploying distributed deep learning in the cloud, at...
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Are We Being Honest About How Difficult AI Real...
Today we’re joined by David Ferrucci, Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Elemental Cognition, a company focused on building natural learning systems that understand the world the way people do. In our conversation, we discuss:  • His...
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Gauge Equivariant CNNs, Generative Models, and ...
Today we’re joined by Max Welling, research chair in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam, as well as VP of technologies at Qualcomm, and Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, or CIFAR. In our conversation, we...
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Can We Trust Scientific Discoveries Made Using ...
Today we’re joined by Genevera Allen, associate professor of statistics in the EECS Department at Rice University, Founder and Director of the Rice Center for Transforming Data to Knowledge and Investigator with the Neurological Research Institute...
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Creative Adversarial Networks for Art Generatio...
Today we’re joined by Ahmed Elgammal, a professor in the department of computer science at Rutgers, and director of The Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab. In my conversation with Ahmed, we discuss: • His work on AICAN, a creative adversarial...
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Diagnostic Visualization for Machine Learning w...
Today we close out our PyDataSci series joined by Rebecca Bilbro, head of data science at ICX media and co-creator of the popular open-source visualization library YellowBrick. In our conversation, Rebecca details: • Her relationship with...
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