Ameet Talwalkar
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Ameet Talwalkar is an associate professor in the Machine Learning Department at CMU and Chief Scientist at Datadog. His work is motivated by the goal of democratizing machine learning, with an interest in ML for science, human-AI interaction, and problems at the intersection of systems and learning. He co-founded Determined AI (acquired by HPE), helped create MLlib in Apache Spark, co-authored the textbook 'Foundations of Machine Learning,' and created an award-winning edX MOOC on distributed machine learning. He also spearheaded the creation of the MLSys conference. |