San Francisco Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Seminar
Speaker: Joseph Richards, Head of Data Science, wise.io, Inc.
Title: Machine Learning in the Real World
Thursday 27
February
4:30
coffee/socializing
5-6 Talk
Abstract:
The past decade has seen an exponential
increase in our ability to collect, store and query data. Yet, few
companies and research groups have begun to employ modern statistical learning
techniques to actually extract value from their data. In this talk, I'll
describe my quest to empower non-experts with the capabilities of advanced
machine learning (ML): first in the field of astrophysics where I have applied
ML to build end-to-end solutions for object discovery & classification, and
subsequently as a co-founder of wise.io, where we are building ML-powered
applications for business users. I'll discuss the challenges of deploying
machine learning on real-world data and describe how we are making it easier to
build end-to-end ML-powered applications. Finally, I'll touch on some of the
innovations that we're making at wise.io to push the frontiers of accuracy,
interpretability, speed & scalability of supervised machine learning.
UCSF China Basin campus, room 6704 (Directions
are available here at the following link following directions to the
Classrooms. http://www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/general/cbl.html)