Aurélien Geron
Machine Learning Consultant, Kiwisoft

Aurélien Géron is a machine learning consultant at Kiwisoft and author of the best-selling O’Reilly book Hands-on Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow. Previously, he led YouTube’s video classification team, was a founder and CTO of Wifirst, and was a consultant in a variety of domains: finance (JPMorgan and Société Générale), defense (Canada’s DOD), and healthcare (blood transfusion). He also published a few technical books (on C++, WiFi, and internet architectures), and he’s a lecturer at the Dauphine University in Paris. He lives in Singapore with his wife and three children.

Sessions

9:00am - 5:00pm Monday, October 28 & Tuesday, October 29

Location: Great America Meeting Room 3

Production ML pipelines with TensorFlow Extended (TFX)

Aurélien Geron (Kiwisoft)

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(5.00, 2 ratings)

Aurélien Géron dives into creating production ML pipelines with TensorFlow Extended (TFX) and using TFX to move from ML coding to ML engineering. You'll walk through the basics and put your first pipeline together, then learn how to customize TFX components and perform deep analysis of model performance. Read more.

11:00am–11:40am Thursday, October 31, 2019

Location: Grand Ballroom C/D

Natural language processing using transformer architectures

Text, language, speech

Aurélien Geron (Kiwisoft)

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(4.50, 6 ratings)

Transformer architectures have taken the field of natural language processing (NLP) by storm and pushed recurrent neural networks to the sidelines. Aurélien Géron examines transformers and the amazing language models based on them (e.g., BERT and GPT 2) and shows how you can use them in your projects. Read more.