About Rebekah Westerlind is a full-stack software engineer at Snorkel AI on the product engineering team. She graduated from Cornell University in 2022 with degrees in Computer Science and Operations Research & Information Engineering. Driven by a desire to always be learning, Rebekah loves jumping in on new projects and surrounding herself with experts.
About Samira Shaikh, Ph.D. is a Director of Data Science at Ally Financial. She has over two decades of experience in Natural Language Processing, specifically Conversational AI. Before Ally, she was a Professor of Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she worked on research in NLP and AI.
About Travis Addair is co-founder and CTO of Predibase, a low-code platform for predictive and generative AI. Within the Linux Foundation, he serves as lead maintainer for the Horovod distributed deep learning framework and is a co-maintainer of the Ludwig declarative deep learning framework. In the past, he led Uber’s deep learning training team as part of the Michelangelo machine …
About Vijay Janapa Reddi is an Associate Professor at Harvard and Vice President of MLCommons, a non-profit organization aimed at accelerating machine learning innovation. He co-led the development of MLPerf Inference benchmark and has won various accolades and awards, including the Gilbreth Lecturer Honor from the National Academy of Engineering. He is passionate about expanding access to applied machine learning …
About Vinny is the Head of the Product & Content Intelligence at Wayfair, leveraging ML to understand the product catalog. With a background in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s in Computer Science, he has 10 years of industry experience ranging from leading personalization ML teams to developing ML solutions in the defense industry.
About Yoav Shoham is professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University. A leading AI expert, Prof. Shoham is Fellow of AAAI, ACM and the Game Theory Society. Among his awards are the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the AAAI/ACM Allen Newell Award, and the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. His online Game Theory course has been watched by close to …
About Zachary Huang is a 4th year PhD student at Columbia University. His research centered on developing a semantic layer for large join graphs on local and cloud databases. His previous projects involve building dashboards, ML systems, and data discovery tools.