Deep Tech Musings

On todays show we have with us Aditya who is the Operations & Logistics Analytics Manager at Swiggy, Indias largest and highest-valued online food ordering and delivery platform. Aditya will talk about how Swiggy utilizes location intelligence to pin-point accurate addresses of customers thereby ensuring a smooth delivery process and increasing customer satisfaction. He dives deep into the AI/ML approach implemented to address this use case and also reflects on his personal learnings and experiences at Swiggy.  Learn more about Aditya & his work here: https://in.linkedin.com/in/aditya-hk-b0596814

Peter is a rapid prototyping specialist and the co-founder of Mixpose, a multi-award winning startup (Google, NVIDIA among others) that is solving a very pertinent problem in today’s COVID world that of creating an engaging online interaction between instructors and their students, specifically for Yoga. Mixpose utilizes two of the hottest deep tech i.e. AI at edge and live streaming to help yoga instructors across the world to deliver high quality & highly engaging yoga classes. In the episode, Peter touches upon the AI/ML approach to detect yoga poses & highlights his startup experience till now with more focus on the importance of achieving product-market fit. Website: www.mixpose.com Article detailing the ML approach: https://www.hackster.io/mixpose/mixpose-722df5

Excited to introduce today's guest David, who is the VP of analytics at India's largest and highest-valued online food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy! An industry veteran of 20 years, David has held multiple leadership roles in analytics at Mu Sigma & currently Swiggy. On the show David will be letting us know about his journey in analytics, how he faced & overcame certain challenges, what he looks for in data scientists along with certain other fun facts and what's in store in future for Swiggy and AI in general. This is a show not to be missed! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-zakkam/

Anton is currently pursuing his PhD from Norwegian Institute of Technology and conducting innovative research on the opportunities of blockchain solutions in health care and health science. His latest investigative research article on the state of Blockchain in healthcare is being well received and Anton will be sharing highlights from the same while helping us understand the basic components of a blockchain. Learn more about Anton and his work at the below links.  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anton-hasselgren Link to his paper on Blockchain in Healthcare: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138650561930526X#!

Ashwin is a serial entrepreneur with 17+ years of experience in working in multiple early stage startups building high scalable software systems. His latest venture - CustomFit.ai focuses on the B2B marketing segment and intends to capitalize on the $1B opportunity in this space. Ashwin will be discussing on what are some important use cases in the B2B marketing space and how CustomFit.ai caters to the same.  You can learn more about Ashwin's work on his LinkedIn profile and his company website below. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwin-kumar-custom-fit/ Website: www.customfit.ai Email: reach@customfit.ai

Samik is an industry veteran of more than 20 years having worked at organizations like Oracle, 247.ai, Quickride & others. In the episode he sheds light on one of the most trending topics in AI today - MLOps. Listen in to find out what MLOps is, how it is implemented in a business use case and how it makes data scientists' lives a lot easier enabling them to close the loop of the AI lifecycle. You can learn more about Samik's work on his LinkedIn profile below and also do try out the open source Spark library (link below) for automated Spark ML training.  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samikr/ Spark Library: https://github.com/247-ai/FlashML

Roar is a ML scholar having rich experience in the O&G industry and currently the senior business developer at SINTEF, which is headquartered in Norway. It is one of Europe's largest research organisations, with multidisciplinary expertise in the fields of technology, the natural sciences and the social sciences. Roar helps us to deconstruct the O&G value chain, with special focus on oil well drilling and understand some of the AI/ML applications for the same. Learn more about his work at : https://twitter.com/roarny

Dr. Sebastian (@rasbt) is the Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a best selling author of the "Python Machine Learning" book and the creator of the popular "mlxtend" python library. On the show he talks about his latest research article highlighting how ML & AI approaches are being used for drug discovery, something quite prevalent in the COVID world today.  Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1046202319302762 Learn more about Sebastian's work here. https://sebastianraschka.com https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X4RCC0IAAAAJ Note: I regret for my voice quality as the recording setup had to be changed last minute due to a COVID situation.

Guest: Abhishek Ghose, Senior Principal Data Scientist, 247.ai Abhishek Ghose is the senior principal data scientist at 247.ai, a leader in conversational AI. Understanding customer "intent" is the most critical piece in a chatbot conversation and Abhishek highlights how AI, particularly new age transformer based NLP models like BERT, are enabling intent identification using very less data. Learn more about Abhishek's work at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishek-ghose-36197624  Keywords: chatbots, conversational AI, natural language processing (NLP), intent classification, BERT, transformers

Guest: Ashokraj, Founder, Intelizest In this weeks episode we speak to Ashokraj who is the CEO of Intelizest, an AI-Blockchain-IoT products and services company based out of Chennai, India. Among their top products is Rekochain which utilizes AI & Blockchain to facilitate supply chain operations and makes procurement streamlined and agile. In post Covid world, a new distinction in supply chain processes has emerged, those for essential and non-essential goods. Ashok highlights how Rekochain powered by its AI & Blockchain capabilities intends to capture value in this space.