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Ameet Talwalkar

Ameet Talwalkar
Assistant Professor | Cofounder and Chief Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University | Determined AI

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Ameet Talwalkar is cofounder and chief scientist at Determined AI and an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research addresses scalability and ease-of-use issues in the field of statistical machine learning, with applications in computational genomics. Ameet led the initial development of the MLlib project in Apache Spark. He is the coauthor of the graduate-level textbook Foundations of Machine Learning (MIT Press) and teaches an award-winning MOOC on edX, Distributed Machine Learning with Apache Spark.

Sessions

1:45pm-2:25pm Thursday, September 6, 2018
Software development in the age of deep learning
Implementing AI, Models and Methods
 Location: Imperial A
Secondary topics:  Deep Learning models, Edge computing and Hardware, Platforms and infrastructure
Evan Sparks (Determined AI), Ameet Talwalkar (Carnegie Mellon University | Determined AI)
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In spite of the enormous excitement about the potential of deep learning, several key challenges—from prohibitive hardware requirements to immature software offerings—are impeding its widespread enterprise adoption. Evan Sparks and Ameet Talwalkar detail fundamental challenges facing organizations looking to adopt deep learning and present novel solutions to overcome several of them. Read more.