Sep 23–26, 2019

Anirudh Koul
Data Scientist, Microsoft

Anirudh Koul is a head of AI and research at Aira, noted by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of 2018. He’s a noted AI expert and O’Reilly author, including the upcoming Practical Deep Learning for Cloud and Mobile. Previously, he was a scientist at Microsoft AI, where he founded Seeing AI, the most-used technology among the blind community after the iPhone. With features shipped to a billion users, he brings over a decade of production-oriented applied research experience on petabyte-scale datasets. He’s been developing technologies using AI techniques for augmented reality, robotics, speech, productivity, and accessibility. Some of his recent work, which IEEE has called “life-changing,” has been honored by CES, FCC, Cannes Lions, American Council of the Blind, showcased at events by the UN, the White House, the House of Lords, the World Economic Forum, Netflix, National Geographic, and applauded by world leaders including Justin Trudeau and Theresa May.

Sessions

4:35pm–5:15pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1A 06/07

Deep learning on mobile

Data Science, Machine Learning, & AI

Secondary topics: Data Integration and Data Processing, Deep Learning, Financial Services

Anirudh Koul (Microsoft), Meher Kasam (Square)

Over the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have risen in popularity, especially in the area of computer vision. Anirudh Koul and Meher Kasam take you through how you can get deep neural nets to run efficiently on mobile devices. Read more.