The Evolution of the Platform Team

The goal of the program was that we wanted to expand our ML market size. We essentially said that there's this whole bigger group outside of that that has a lot of use cases for machine learning in those groups. So if we can teach them that then they can basically apply this to all of theirs and so now basically we have A onboard of a lot of those groups that are able to use it when those groups would have never been touched before.

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MLOps Coffee Sessions #156 with Melissa Barr & Michael Mui, Machine Learning Education at Uber, co-hosted by Lina Weichbrodt.

// Abstract

Melissa and Michael discuss the education program they developed for Uber's machine learning platform service, Michelangelo, during a guest appearance on a podcast. The program teaches employees how to use machine learning both in general and specifically for Uber. The platform team can obtain valuable feedback from users and use it to enhance the platform. The course was designed using engineering principles, making it applicable to other products as well.

// Bio

Melissa Barr

Melissa is a Technical Program Manager for ML & AI at Uber. She is based in New York City. She drives projects across Uber’s ML platform, delivery, and personalization teams. She also built out the first version of the ML Education Program in 2021.

Michael Mui

Michael is a Staff Technical Lead Manager on Uber AI's Machine Learning Platform team. He leads the Distributed ML Training team, which focuses on building elastic, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed machine learning libraries and systems used to power machine learning development productivity across Uber. He also co-leads Uber’s internal ML Education initiatives. Outside of Uber, Michael also teaches ML at the Parsons School of Design in NYC as an Adjunct Faculty (mostly for the museum passes!) and guest lectures at the University of California, Berkeley.

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