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Distinguished Scientist at Google DeepMind. Dr. Le is one of the most senior and influential figures of Google's AI effort with 45 papers & 1000 citations. Founding engineer at Google Brain, he introduced AutoML and co-developed word2vec & seq2seq. Honored by MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35", his work on seq2seq motivated the now-ubiquitous Transformer architecture.
Chief Data Scientist at Petronas. He leads advanced Oil & Gas analytics initiatives at Petronas to transform & deliver value across the group. Earlier, at Tata Steel, Dr. Sambasivam led the development of the Analytics CoE, shaping large digital transformation programs. Dr. Sambasivam holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering, IIT and a PhD in Fluid Mechanics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
CEO of Aitomatic, a Knowledge-First ML company. He works with leading industrial companies like Panasonic and Tesla to help get fish from ocean to table, make efficient batteries for EVs, and keep cars safe. Dr. Nguyen was president of Arimo-Panasonic, eng. director at Google, and prof. of ECE at HKUST. He earned his BS from UC Berkeley, and MS & PhD from Stanford.
Director of the USC Information, Inference & Intelligence Group. Dr. Mitra is the USC Viterbi Gordon S. Marshall Chair in Engineering and Professor of ECE & CS. Her work includes underwater acoustic comm, wireless body-area networks for health, and sensor networks, under programs sponsored by Office of Naval Research and the NSF (Mobile Underwater Networks).
VP of Digital Platforms at WESCO (formerly Westinghouse). Mr. Mereby has led global incubation & expansion of connected products & cloud-based industrial applications. He has led acquisitions of AI companies, managed sales/distribution strategies & policies. He has identified and forged strategic partnerships and managed relationships with other Fortune 500 companies.
CEO/Co-founder of WaveAI, Dr. Ackerman is a world-renowned Generative AI researcher. A pioneer in the space, Dr. Ackerman has been researching multimodal generative-AI models for text, music, and art since 2014. She was an early advocate for human-centered generative AI, bringing awareness to the power of AI to profoundly elevate human creativity.
Dr. Curtis Ling, CTO & Co-founder at MaxLinear. Dr. Ling directs the integration of ML and AI-driven solutions into communication products. At Silicon Wave, Dr. Ling innovatively applied AI components in communication models. His tenure at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology laid the foundation for merging academic insights with industrial applications.
Director at Panasonic, leading its Global Digital & AI Technology Center. His organization provides the bridge between leading-edge technologies and customer solutions through the business divisions. A veteran exec at Panasonic, Kutsumi-san is a senior leader in the CTO organization, bringing to market innovative products from autonomous robots to AI-based predictive maintenance.
Head, Industrial AI at Hitachi, co-leads the Hitachi Global AI CoE & is Deputy GM for Hitachi AI Research Center. Dr. Gupta leads the strongest team of DS, architects & devs to build fundamental horizontal Industrial AI technologies & vertical solutions for mobility, manufacturing, mining, energy management systems, and industrial analytics. He has a Ph.D. in Maths, M.S. in CS & ChemE from UIC.
CEO of Lepton.ai, a developer-centric platform for running AI apps efficiently at scale, in minutes. Well-known as the creator of CAFFE at Berkeley, Dr. Jia was the founding engineer & director of Facebook's AI infrastructure. At Alibaba, he was VP of AI & Analytics, overseeing Alibaba's largest platforms. He was a research scientist at Google Brain. Dr. Jia earned his PhD from UC Berkeley.
Founder of Tess Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that focuses on AI, IoT, Enterprise applications, Fintech and more. A respected leader and subject matter expert, Tess is a sought-after speaker, lecturer, and advisor on venture capital, startups, entrepreneurship, strategy, expansion & growth. She was named “Top Women to Watch 2019” by Thrive Global.
Director, Refractory Services at RHI Magnesita, Kukla has championed steel & non-ferrous metals production for 30 years with innovative refractory solutions. RHI Magnesita pioneered steel industry technologies eg. the first automated laser scanner, gunning robot, minimizing worker exposure to molten steel. His impactful experience underscores significant influence to the refractory & steel-making factor.
Chief AI Officer, FPT Software. Prior, he was an AI Researcher at Hitachi Central Research Laboratory (Japan), where he obtained 8 patents and was named among Hitachi’s Top 50 young inventors. He was also Director of Data Science and AI Division at Tokyo Techies, and Hitachi’s representative and Visiting Researcher at Mila. He earned his MS from CMU and PhD from the University of Tokyo.
Chief Scientist at Anyscale. At Uber, Dr. Kadous helped riders and drivers find each other by improving location and maps, developed techniques that use phone sensors and AI to detect when a car has been in an accident. Prior to Uber, Waleed worked at Google on Google Maps, Google X and Android. He holds a BE in Computer Engineering & PhD in Computer Science (AI) from UNSW.
Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science of the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Daescu’s ongoing research interests include computational geometry, algorithm engineering, spatial bio-medical computing, smart cities, and applied machine learning. He earned his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Data scientist at Cold-Chain Solutions, Panasonic, working on data analytics & AI solutions for industries. She leads the development of anomaly detection systems for cold-chain equipment. Ms. Chiewvanichakorn received her MS degree in Informatics from Kyoto University, Japan, where her research focused on neural networks and mixed-integer linear programming for chemo-informatics.
Co-founding General Partner, Bloomberg Beta, a highly successful early-stage venture capital firm with a soul, based in Silicon Valley. Bloomberg Beta invests funds from a single LP: the billionaire Mayor Bloomberg. Mr. Cham is a thought leader in the future of AI and its business models. He earned his BS CS from Harvard and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Chief AI Officer at Fiddler AI. As the Principal Scientist at Amazon AI, Dr. Krishnaram Kenthapadi shaped the technical roadmap, development, and new AI product launch, provided technical vision & steered initiatives in new domains eg. MLOps, Responsible AI, and improved business metrics for existing products via technology transfers. He earned his MS & PhD, CS from Stanford University.
Technology Director at Wesco, where he leads teams of data scientists and ML engineers working on industrial, physical-world AI/ML, Robotics, Platform and InnovationAI. Prior to this, Mr. Dande was a Principal Architect at Haliburton, specializing in Robotics, Automation, AI, ML, RL. He earned his BS from the University of Madras, and an MSEE from Clarkson University.
CPO at Neo4j. Sudhir transformed Google Cloud's Data Analytics into a multi-billion dollar domain and led the $2.6B Looker acquisition. At Zulily, he spearheaded data-driven transformations. His tenure at Microsoft included innovations for Xbox and pivotal Azure product launches. An avid marathon runner, Sudhir is dedicated to philanthropy with the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
Co-founder at Networky.co. Dr. Bainiaksina has been a prominent figure in AI, with experience spanning global tech firms. She led the development of data and AI-driven applications, gaining global recognition and features on CNBC, BBC, and Bloomberg. She holds an MS in Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science from University College London.
Dr. Daniel Lenton is the founder and CEO at Ivy, aiming to streamline AI deployment by unifying the AI stack in one code line. Previously, as a PhD student at the Dyson Robotics Lab, he delved into Machine Learning and Robotics and collaborated with Amazon's drone delivery. Lenton holds a Dean's list-recognized Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College.
AI Solution Group Manager, Panasonic Digital & AI Development Center. He was MD of Panasonic R&D Company of America. He was awarded the Takagi Award from the Image Sensing Technology Research Society for his work on Panasonic’s DFD technology, and the Technical Award from the Photographic Society of Japan. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in EE from the University of Tokyo.
Advisor and Board Member at Argilla. Mr. Nathan works with leading industrial companies like BASF and Siemens on European AI initiatives. He is a recognized expert in natural language processing & understanding, data science, cloud computing, with 40+ years tech academic & industry experience, ranging from Berkeley, Stanford, Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups.
Chief Data Scientist at Petronas. He leads advanced Oil & Gas analytics initiatives at Petronas to transform & deliver value across the group. Earlier, at Tata Steel, Dr. Sambasivam led the development of the Analytics CoE, shaping large digital transformation programs. Dr. Sambasivam holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering, IIT and a PhD in Fluid Mechanics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
CEO of Aitomatic, a Knowledge-First ML company. He works with leading industrial companies like Panasonic and Tesla to help get fish from ocean to table, make efficient batteries for EVs, and keep cars safe. Dr. Nguyen was president of Arimo-Panasonic, eng. director at Google, and prof. of ECE at HKUST. He earned his BS from UC Berkeley, and MS & PhD from Stanford.
Director at Panasonic, leading its Global Digital & AI Technology Center. His organization provides the bridge between leading-edge technologies and customer solutions through the business divisions. A veteran exec at Panasonic, Kutsumi-san is a senior leader in the CTO organization, bringing to market innovative products from autonomous robots to AI-based predictive maintenance.
Head, Industrial AI at Hitachi, co-leads the Hitachi Global AI CoE & is Deputy GM for Hitachi AI Research Center. Dr. Gupta leads the strongest team of DS, architects & devs to build fundamental horizontal Industrial AI technologies & vertical solutions for mobility, manufacturing, mining, energy management systems, and industrial analytics. He has a Ph.D. in Maths, M.S. in CS & ChemE from UIC.
Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science of the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Daescu’s ongoing research interests include computational geometry, algorithm engineering, spatial bio-medical computing, smart cities, and applied machine learning. He earned his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Professor & Avanessians Director, Data Science Inst. at Columbia. Dr. Wing was CVP/Head of Microsoft Research, President’s Professor of CS at CMU, and an Asst Dir at the NSF. Her research interests are trustworthy AI, security & privacy, specification and verification, and distributed systems. Dr. Wing is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE. She earned her SB, SM, and PhD all from MIT.
Head of Product for Uber AI where he leads the team responsible for Uber’s ML platform, Michelangelo. Mr. Parikh was also Lead PM where he launched Uber's Safety Incident prevention & data products. Prior to Uber, he led product & engineering teams at Arimo and Intel corporation. He holds an MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and MS in EE & Computer Networks, USC.
Dr. Seo’s research focuses on principled techniques for extracting knowledge from complex structures using it to build predictive models—merging insights both from data mining & machine learning. His work includes physics-informed machine learning, spatio-temporal learning, graph-based neural networks, time-series forecasting. He earned his MS from UMich and PhD from USC.
Advisor and Board Member at Argilla. Mr. Nathan works with leading industrial companies like BASF and Siemens on European AI initiatives. He is a recognized expert in natural language processing & understanding, data science, cloud computing, with 40+ years tech academic & industry experience, ranging from Berkeley, Stanford, Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups.
Director of Research, Cross Labs, where he leads fundamental research in Artificial Life & Trustworthy AI & CEO, Cross Compass. Dr. Witkowski's research focuses on expanding human capacities through empathic and trustworthy AI. He co-founded YHouse, a NY-based non-profit transdisciplinary research institute, focusing on awareness, AI & complex systems.
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Distinguished Career Professor of ML & CS at the Heinz College at CMU. He was the Chief Data Scientist for the Obama presidential campaign. He was also the Director of the Center for Data Science and Public Policy & Senior Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Dr. Ghani also led the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship.
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CEO of Useful Sensors. Former Founder & CTO of Jetpac, acquired by Google. At Google, Dr. Warden led the TensorFlow Mobile team responsible for deep learning on mobile and embedded devices, creating TinyML, a framework and runtime that enable powerful models that fit in small edge devices. He earned a PhD in CS from Stanford and a BS CS from the University of Manchester.
Physical, human-centered systems present unique challenges. Up to now, Silicon Valley has assumed a digital, computer-centered world.
Knowledge-First AI prioritizes human experience alongside data. This promotes powerful, yet safe, reliable and trustworthy ML/AI systems.
K1st World Symposium unites leaders from government, industry, and academia to discuss the challenges and opportunities of combining human & machine intelligence.
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Former Chief Data Scientist, O’Reilly. Past Program Chair of Strataconf.com, TheAIconf.com, Tensorflow.world, and #SparkAISummit. Dr. Lorica hosts the Data Exchange Podcast, focused on data, machine learning and AI. He also produces Gradient Flow, named by Coursera as a Top-10 Site for Data Scientists. He earned his PhD in Mathematics from UC Santa Barbara.
Head of AI Solutions Engineering, Aitomatic, leading teams to build cutting-edge Industrial AI solutions that leverage domain expertise. Dr. Rozario applied ML to radiation treatment at UT Southwestern Medical. At Siemens Automation, he helped enterprises to improve automation capabilities. He earned his PhD in CS from UT Dallas.
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