Bobby Pinero is the CEO and Co-Founder of Equals, a next-generation spreadsheet. He has worked in Finance, Analytics, and Data generally for the last few years. Previously he was the head of Finance and early employee number 8 at Intercom.
Datacast Episode 78: Open-Source Investing and Data Product Management with Julia Schottenstein
Julia Schottenstein is a Product Manager at dbt Labs, the maker of the popular open-source project dbt. Before joining dbt Labs, Julia was an investor at New Enterprise Associates, where she invested in infrastructure, developer tools, open-source, and data startups. She currently sits on the boards of Sentry and Metabase while being an active angel investor. Julia graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Computer Science and Management Science & Engineering.
Datacast Episode 65: Chaos Theory, High-Frequency Trading, and Experimentations at Scale with David Sweet
David Sweet was a quantitative trader at GETCO, where he used experimental methods to tune trading strategies, and a machine learning engineer at Instagram, where he experimented on a large-scale recommender system. He is currently writing a book called "Tuning Up," an extension of lectures given at NYU Stern on tuning high-frequency trading systems. Before working in the industry, he received a Ph.D. in Physics and published research in Physical Review Letters and Nature. The latter publication – an experiment demonstrating chaos in geometrical optics -- has become a source of inspiration for computer graphics artists, undergraduate Physics instructors, and an exhibit called TetraSphere at the Museum of Mathematics in New York City.
What I Learned From Attending REWORK AI Applications Summit 2021
Last month, I attended REWORK’s AI Applications Virtual Summit, which discovers machine learning tools and techniques to improve the financial, retail, and insurance experience. As a previous attendee of REWORK’s in-person summit, I have always enjoyed the unique mix of academia and industry, enabling attendees to meet with AI pioneers at the forefront of research and explore real-world case studies to discover the business value of AI.
In this long-form blog recap, I will dissect content from the talks that I found most useful from attending the summit. The post consists of 13 talks that are divided into 3 sections: (1) AI in Finance and RegTech, (2) AI in Retail and Marketing, and (3) AI in Insurance.
Datacast Episode 49: Computational Neuroscience, Quantitative Finance, and Churn Prediction with Carl Gold
Carl Gold, the Chief Data Scientist at Zuora, has a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and first-author publications in leading Machine Learning and Neuroscience journals. Before coming to Zuora, he spent most of his post-academic career as a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. Now a data scientist, Carl has written a book about using insights from data to reduce customer churn, to be released in December 2020 entitled "Fighting Churn With Data."
Datacast Episode 35: Data Science For Food Discovery with Ankit Jain
Ankit Jain is a senior research scientist at Uber AI Labs, the machine learning research arm of Uber. His work primarily involves the application of deep learning methods to a variety of Uber’s problems ranging from food delivery, fraud detection to self-driving cars. Previously, he worked in a variety of machine learning roles at Facebook, Bank Of America, and other startups. He co-authored a book on machine learning titled TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects. Additionally, he’s been a featured speaker in many of the top AI conferences and universities and has published papers in several top conferences like NeurIPs and ICLR. He earned his MS from UC Berkeley and BS from IIT Bombay.
Datacast Episode 25: Algorithmic Trading with Alexandr Honchar
Alexandr Honchar is an AI practitioner and entrepreneur, made in Ukraine, living in Italy, working worldwide. He has a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Verona, Italy, and has been working in the AI field for the last 7 years. He has grown from a data scientist role to a founder and tech leader role for several companies. Lately, he founded Neurons Lab - an AI boutique where he pushes AI frontiers and builds, which are unique for the culture of freedom and creativity with other strong technical experts. Apart from business, he blogs at Medium about recent AI advances and gives talks at conferences and meetups across Europe.
