Columbia Data Science Society Podcast

This week for the Columbia Data Science Society Podcast (CDSS) Podcast, we will be interviewing Professor Shuran Song.

Shuran Song is an assistant professor at Columbia University whose research focuses on computer vision and robotics. She is especially interested in developing algorithms that enable intelligent systems to learn from their interactions with the physical world, and autonomously acquire the perception and manipulation skills necessary to execute complex tasks and assist people In the following interview, we discuss topics including Professor Song’s career path, her tips and advice to students, her outlook towards RL for robotics in the for the future, as well as a discussion about two of her most recent works.

For this week our speaker is Ryan Janssen. Ryan is an entrepreneur and a technology investor. Currently, he is a co-founder/CEO of Zenlytic, a SaaS (Software as a service) business that is building a no-code data science tool. Previously, Ryan worked in growth stage technology, venture capital, and real estate investing with London’s AGC Equity Partners. He has a Master of Science in computational data science from Harvard, an MBA from Oxford, and a BSc in  engineering at the University of Alberta. A few additional links mentioned in the discussion are posted below.

Additional Links:

https://paperswithcode.com/ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ https://avc.com/ https://tomtunguz.com/ https://feld.com/ https://www.producthunt.com/ https://thetwentyminutevc.com/

For the very first episode of the CDSS Podcast we interview Professor Nakul Verma! Nakul Verma is a professor at Columbia University who works on various aspects of machine learning problems and high dimensional statistics; he is especially interested in exploiting the intrinsic structure of data to design effective learning algorithms. His theoretical work in distance preserving embeddings is currently state of the art. He is also considered one of the best lecturers in the Computer Science Department by his students. In the following interview, we discuss topics including Professor Verma’s career path, his tips and advice to students, his outlook towards ML in the for the future, as well as a discussion about his work in Distance Preserving Manifolds.