Jay Shah Podcast

Niloofar is a Postdoctoral researcher at University of Washington with research interests in building privacy preserving AI systems and studying the societal implications of machine learning models. She received her PhD in Computer Science from UC San Diego in 2023 and has received multiple awards and honors for research contributions. Time stamps of the conversation 00:00:00 Highlights 00:01:35 Introduction 00:02:56 Entry point ...

Vivek is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State university. Prior to that, he was at the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral researcher and completed his PhD in CS from the University of Utah. His PhD research focused on inference and reasoning for semi structured data and his current research spans reasoning in large language models (LLMs), multimodal learning, and instilling models with common sense for question answeri...

Max is the CEO and co-founder of Nixtla, where he is developing highly accurate forecasting models using time series data and deep learning techniques, which developers can use to build their own pipelines. Max is a self-taught programmer and researcher with a lot of prior experience building things from scratch. 00:00:50 Introduction 00:01:26 Entry point in AI 00:04:25 Origins of Nixtla 00:07:30 Idea to product 00:11:21 Behavior...

Golnaz Abdollahian is currently the senior director of big idea innovation at Dolby Laboratories. She has a lot of experience developing and shaping technological products around augmented and virtual reality, smart homes, and generative AI. Before joining Dolby, she had experience working at Microsoft, Apple, and Sony. She also holds PhD in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Time stamps of the conversation 00:00 High...

Pritika is the co-founder of Butternut AI, a platform that allows the creation of professional websites without hiring web developers. Before butternut, Pritika had entrepreneurship experience building some other products, which later got acquired. Time stamps of the conversation 00:00 Highlights 01:15 Introduction 01:50 Entry point in AI 03:04 Motivation behind Butternut AI 05:00 Can software engineering be automated? 06:36 Larg...

Dr. Imon Banerjee is an Associate Professor at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, working at the intersection of AI and healthcare research. Her research focuses on multi-modality fusion, mitigating bias in AI models specifically in the context of medical applications & more broadly building predictive models using different data sources. Before joining the Mayo Clinic, she was at Emory University as an Assistant Professor and at Stanford...

Dr. Petar Veličković is a Staff Research Scientist at Googe DeepMind and an Affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He is known for his research contributions in graph representation learning; particularly graph neural networks and graph attention networks. At DeepMind, he has been working on Neural Algorithmic Reasoning which we talk about more in this podcast. Petar’s research has been featured in numerous media artic...

Dr. Yezhou Yang is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University and director of the Active Perception Group at ASU. He has research interests in Cognitive Robotics and Computer Vision, and understanding human actions from visual input and grounding them by natural language. Prior to joining ASU, he completed his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and his postdoctoral at the Computer Vision Lab and Perception and Robotics L...

Dr Hyrum Anderson is a Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer at Robust Intelligence. Prior to that, he was Principal Architect of Trustworthy Machine Learning at Microsoft where he also founded Microsoft’s AI Red Team; he also led security research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Mendiant, and was Chief Scientist at Endgame (later acquired by Elastic). He’s also the co-author of the book “Not a Bug, B...

Meredith is an associate professor at New York University and research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. Her research interests include using data analysis for good and ethical AI. She is also the author of the book “More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech” and we will discuss more about this with her in this podcast. Time stamps of the conversation 00:42 Introduction 01:17...

Part-2 of my podcast with David Stutz. (Part-1: https://youtu.be/J7hzMYUcfto) David is a research scientist at DeepMind working on building robust and safe deep learning models. Prior to joining DeepMind, he was a PhD student at the Max Plank Institute of Informatics. He also maintains a fantastic blog on various topics related to machine learning and graduate life which is insightful to young researchers out there. 00:00:00 Work...

Rora helps top AI researchers and professionals negotiate their pay -- often as they transition from academia into industry. Moving into tech is a huge transition for many PhDs and post-docs -- the pay is much more significant and the terms of employment are often quite different. In the past 5 years, the Rora team has helped over 1000 STEM professionals negotiate more than $10M in additional earnings from companies like DeepMind...

Part-1 of my podcast with David Stutz. (Part-2: https://youtu.be/IumJcB7bE20) David is a research scientist at DeepMind working on building robust and safe deep learning models. Prior to joining DeepMind, he was a Ph.D. student at the Max Plank Institute of Informatics. He also maintains a fantastic blog on various topics related to machine learning and graduate life which is insightful to young researchers out there. Check out R...

Dr. Subbarao Kambhampati is a Professor of Computer Science at Arizona State University and the director of the Yochan lab where his research focuses on decision-making and planning, specifically in the context of human-aware AI systems. He has been named a fellow of AAAI, AAAS, and ACM in recognition of his research contributions and also received a distinguished alumnus award from the University of Maryland and IIT Madras.

Karyna Naminas is the CEO of Label Your Data which provides data annotation services to different organizations interested in developing AI-based solutions.

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Guide to STEM Ph.D. AI Researcher + Research Scientist pay: https://www.teamrora.com/post/ai-researchers-salary-negotiation-report-2023
Rora's negotiation philosophy:
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Amey Dharwadker works as a Machine Learning Tech Lead Manager at Meta, supporting Facebook's Video Recommendations Ranking team and working on building and deploying personalization models for billions of users. He has also been instrumental in driving a significant increase in user engagement and revenue for the company through his work on News Feed and Ads ranking ML models. As an experienced researcher, he has co-authored p...

Dr. Aparna Taneja works at Google Research in India on innovative projects driving real-world social impact. Her team collaborates with an NGO called ARMMAN with the mission to improve maternal and child health outcomes in underserved communities of India. Prior to Google she was a Post-Doc at Disney Research, Zurich, and has a PhD from the Computer Vision and Geometry Group in ETH Zurich and a Bachelor's in Computer Science f...

Dr. Srijan Kumar is an Assistant professor at Georgia Tech with research interests in combating misinformation and harmful content on online platforms, building robust AI models prone to adversarial attacks, and behavior modeling for more accurate recommender systems. Before joining Georgia Tech, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and completed his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland. He has r...