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The Minhaaj's PodcastWorking at DeepMind with Aleksa GordicAleksa Gordic is an ex-software/ML engineer at Microsoft & DeepMind with a broad background across the "whole stack" - maths, electronics, software engineering, algorithms, ML & deep learning (computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), geometric DL, reinforcement learning (RL)...), web, mobile, etc. He is a Top Linkedin Voice in AI for 2023. He has The AI Epiphany YouTube channel, and occasionally shares his projects on GitHub and blogs on Medium.
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00:00 Intro
00:45 Dropping Out, Self Learning & Chris Olah
03:20 From Android Developer to ML Engineer
06:25...2023-07-121h 49The Minhaaj's PodcastJulia and Data Science with Bogumil KaminskiSeason 2 episode 2 of The Minhaaj Podcast this week brings on the child prodigy and genius co-creator of dataframes.jl package for Julia, Dr Bogumił Kamiński. Bogumil learned C language without owning a computer from library books at the age of 16 in a small Polish town. In post-communist Poland he went on to study applied problems in management and economics and his interest lies in computational models for real-life problems.He currently serves as the full professor of economics at the Warsaw School of Economics. He also holds the following positions:- Head of Decision Analysis and Sup...2023-06-292h 07The Minhaaj's PodcastAI powered self serving BI with Ryan Janssen & Paul Blankely - ZenlyticRyan is an entrepreneur, data scientist, engineer, and former VC. He is the co-founder and CEO of Zenlytic, a SaaS business that makes a next-generation AI-powered BI tool that uses LLMs and Semantic layers. He previously co-founded Ex Quanta AI Studio, a full-service data consultancy.
Ryan started his career as a software developer in his native Canada, before moving to the UK. He then worked with London’s AGC Equity Partners venture capitalist and private equity investor, investing in technology businesses with check sizes of $1-$50m. He has also worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. and Ernst & Yo...2023-06-201h 59
QG ConnectAnalyzing Psychometrics & Psychology using AI with Minhaaj Rehman at PysdaDataQG sits down with Minhaaj Rehman, the CEO & Chief Data Scientist of Psyda. Hear more about his experiences and thoughts on AI and data governance!2022-06-0926 min
Naeem Sikandar PodcastS1-E42 The Future Of Humanity And Artificial Intelligence Ft. Minhaaj RehmanIn this episode of the #BACK2BASICSPODCAST, we have invited Mr. Minhaaj Rehman is CEO & Chief Data Scientist of Psyda Solutions, an AI-enabled academic and industrial research agency focused on psychographic profiling and value generation through machine learning and deep learning. In this podcast, Minhaaj gave a wide go-through of Artificial intelligence.2022-05-131h 04
Leaders of AnalyticsThe Dos and Don’ts of Synthetic Data with Minhaaj RehmanEver heard of ‘synthetic data’?
Synthetic data is data that is artificially created (from statistical models), rather than generated by actual events. It contains all the characteristics of production data, minus the sensitive stuff.
By 2024, 60% of the data used for the development of AI and analytics projects will be synthetically generated, according to Gartner.
The reason organisations may use synthetic data over actual data is because you can get it more quickly, easily and cheaply.
But there are concerns with this approach, because synthetic data is based on models and algorithms desi...2022-03-1643 min
The Minhaaj's PodcastProsthetic Hands with Aadeel AkhtarDr. Akhtar received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience and M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016. He received a B.S. in Biology in 2007 and M.S. in Computer Science in 2008 at Loyola University Chicago. His research is on motor control and sensory feedback for upper limb prostheses, and he has collaborations with the Bretl Research Group at Illinois, the Center for Bionic Medicine at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, the John Rogers Research Group at Northwestern University, and the Range of Motion Project in Guatemala and...2022-03-141h 45The Minhaaj's PodcastData Warehouse with Bill InmonWilliam H. Inmon (born 1945) is an American computer scientist, recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse. Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference (with Arnie Barnett), wrote the first column in a magazine and was the first to offer classes in data warehousing. Inmon created the accepted definition of what a data warehouse is - a subject-oriented, nonvolatile, integrated, time-variant collection of data in support of management's decisions. Compared with the approach of the other pioneering architect of data warehousing, Ralph Kimball, Inmon's approach is often characterized as a top-down approach. ...2022-03-071h 52The Minhaaj's PodcastBuilding Data Teams & Culture - Lisa CohenLisa Cohen is the Director of Data Science at Twitter and Formerly at Microsoft for 20 years. He holds a bachelor and a master in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and is one of the most influential women in Data Science and AI.00:00 Intro02:52 Harvard, Microsoft, and Twitter. From SE to Data Science03:40 Work Culture at Microsoft, Bigger Picture & Customer First Paradigm16:40 Working with Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, Leadership Lessons & Marty Kagan19:30 Zoom Meetings, Productivity & Innovation, ‘Drive’ by Daniel Pink23:13 Working Styles, Introversion vs Extraversion, 26:43 5-day Week, Focus and Scandinavian Productivity28:50 The Great Resignation, Data Science Jobs, Networking for People who hate Network...2021-11-191h 34The Minhaaj's PodcastData Science Careers with Dhaval Patel - Codebasics YoutubeDhaval Patel is a software & data engineer with more than 17 years of experience. He has been working as a data engineer for a Fintech giant Bloomberg LP (New York) as well as NVidia in the past. He teaches programming, machine learning, data science through YouTube channel CodeBasics which has 428K subscribers worldwide. 00:00 Intro01:34 Autoimmune disease ‘Ulcerative colitis’, Life & Death Struggle, Back to Life03:40 Mental Health, Steroids & Immune System 11:00 Planning Videos, Pedagogy & Smart People Problem17:15 Working at Bloomberg, Bloomberg Trading Terminal & Exceptional Talent in Bloomberg21:13 Career...2021-10-231h 52The Minhaaj's PodcastBCIs, Neuro Modulation and NeuroEthics with Harrison CanningHarrison Canning is a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the School of Individualized Studies, Founder of The BCI Guys & Neurotechnology Exploration Team. He makes videos on his Youtube channel The BCI Guys and has designed his own degree centered around brain-computer interface technology (BA in Neurotechnology).The BCI Guys is a media company dedicated to removing the barrier to entry and increasing interest in the field of neurotechnology. It produces engaging, sensational, digestible, and informative content via YouTube, podcasts, and blog posts. Its aim is to lead the conversation around neurotechnology through a science-based...2021-10-161h 49The Minhaaj's PodcastPytorch Geometric with Matthias FeyMatthias Fey is the creator of the Pytorch Geometric library and a postdoctoral researcher in deep learning at TU Dortmund Germany. He is a core contributor to the Open Graph Benchmark dataset initiative in collaboration with Stanford University Professor Jure Leskovec.00:00 Intro00:50 Pytorch Geometric Inception 02:57 Graph NNs vs CNNs, Transformers, RNNs05:00 Implementation of GNNs as an extension of other ANNs 08:15 Image Synthesis from Textual Inputs as GNNs 10:48 Image classification Implementations on augmented Data in GNNs 13:40 Multimodal Data implementation in GNNs 16:25 Computational complexity of GNN Models2021-10-091h 31The Minhaaj's PodcastGraph Neural Networks with Ankit JainAnkit is an experienced AI Researcher/Machine Learning Engineer who is passionate about using AI to build scalable machine learning products. In his 10 years of AI career, he has researched and deployed several state-of-the-art machine learning models which have impacted 100s of millions of users. Currently, He works as a senior research scientist at Facebook where he works on a variety of machine learning problems across different verticals. Previously, he was a researcher at Uber AI where he worked on application of deep learning methods to different problems ranging from food delivery, fraud detection to self-driving cars. He has...2021-09-201h 59The Minhaaj's PodcastAI in Supply Chain and Economics of Logistics - Frank CorriganFrancis Corrigan is Director of Decision Intelligence at Target Corporation. Embedded within the Global Supply Chain, Decision Intelligence combines data science with model thinking to help decision-makers solve problems.00:00 Intro 01:21 Data Science applications in Logistics and Supply Chain, Cost and Performance trade-off 03:21 Amazon vs Target fulfillment Model, Owning vs Coordinating with Last Mile companies e.g. FedEx 08:36 Suez Canal Container Blockage, Fallback plan at Target 10:37 Predicting products to Stock in Bottle Neck Scenarios 12:42 Air Freight vs Sea Shipments Costs, Ideal vs Real World Deliveries 15:4...2021-08-211h 58The Minhaaj's PodcastNatural Language Understanding - Walid SabaWalid S. Saba is the Founder and Principal AI Scientist at ONTOLOGIK.AI where he works on the development of Conversational AI. Prior to this, he was a PrincipalAI Scientist at Astound.ai and Co-Founder and the CTO of Klangoo. He also held various positions at such places as the American Institutes for Research, AT&TBell Labs, Metlife, IBM and Cognos, and has spent 7 years in academia where he taught computer science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, theUniversity of Windsor, and the American University of Beirut (AUB). Dr. Saba is frequently an invited speaker at various organizations...2021-08-132h 00The Minhaaj's PodcastChina, Fintech, CDBC and BlockChain - Richard TurrinRichard Turrin is an award-winning, dynamic Fintech expert with over 20 years of experience in leveraging new technology to drive revenue growth for market-leading companies. He writes, speaks, and consults on innovation and China because he learned about both the hard way. He headed four labs in banks responsible for financial product innovation and headed fintech operations in China. His best-selling books 'Cashless' and 'Innovation Excellence Lab' are some of the most recommended books on the topic. He has worked for IBM in senior roles and has been a professor at Hult International Business School. 00:00 intro00:38 F...2021-07-091h 53The Minhaaj's PodcastStructural Equation Modelling in Information Sciences - James GaskinJames Gaskin is a professor of Information Systems Management at Brigham Young University.00:00 intro07:00 Mismatch between Pedagogical Style and Student Needs 12:11 Behavioral Science and Structural Equation Modelling.16:40 Cut-off scores in Model Acceptance in SEM17:30 SEM on Big Data and Computational Intensity20:14 Model Explanation in Academics vs Industry21:16 Academic Trash Research Papers getting Published23:35 Gerry-mandering of Data and Publishing Mafia26:20 HTMT as Discriminant Validity Criteria and other Accuracy Metrics28:20 Empirical vs Mathematical Convergence of Models and Compromise29...2021-07-031h 45The Minhaaj's PodcastLow-Code Data Science Solutions and Business ROI - Ganes KesariThis week I'll sit down with Ganes Kesari, Chief Decision Scientist at Gramener, the company behind Gramex and an innovative rising star. Ganes is a contributor in leading magazines such as Forbes, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, and The Enterprisers Project. He won the 2020 CSuite Award for best blog by a business leader. He has taught at Princeton University and Indian Business School and has been invited to speak at TED, O'Reilly Strata, Microsoft, and Intel events.Timestamps00:00 intro03:04 Gaining Business Value from AI Initiative, Establishing Baselines 08:41 Human vs AI performance bas...2021-06-192h 04The Minhaaj's PodcastInterpretable Machine Learning with Serg MasisSerg Masis is the author of best-selling book 'Interpretable Machine Learning with Python' and senior Data Scientist at Sygenta. He has mentored many data scientists around the world. Timestamps:00:00 intro08:30 Old 4.77 MH z Computer, Late 80s and Programming11:51 Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Machine Learning, Startup and Harvard16:33 Fairness vs Preciseness, Bias and Variance Tradeoff, Are Engineers to blame?21:43 Mask-Detection Problem in Coded-Bias, Biased Samples, Surveillance using CV32:38 Fixing Biased Datasets, Augmenting Data and Limitations 37:39 Algorithmic Optimisation and Explainability40:5...2021-05-152h 02The Minhaaj's PodcastBusiness Psychology, Personality Assessments and Data Science with Ryne ShermanRyne Sherman is Chief Science Officer of Hogans Assessments and Podcast Host of Hogan's Podcast. He was a Professor of Psychological Sciences at Florida Atlantic University before that. TimeStamps: 00:00 intro 01:42 Personality Portraits, Big Five, Self vs Other Reports 03:53 Trait Identification, Talent Hunting and Reputation-based Prediction 06:07 Adult Variations in Personality, High School Screening and Stability of Profile 08:03 Personality Profile of Trump Supporters and Shard Psychographics 11:40 Core Beliefs and Values as Predictors, Politics and Economic Stimulus 16:01 Psychometric Theory vs Pop Psychology, Response Patterns and Behavioral Predictions 19:11 Fr...2021-05-112h 12The Minhaaj's PodcastNeurophysiology and Human Computer Interaction with Greg GageGreg Gage is the co-founder and CEO of Backyard Brains, an organization that develops open-source tools that allow amateurs and students to participate in neural discovery. Greg is an NIH-award-winning neuroscientist with 9 popular TED Talks and dozens of peer-reviewed publications. Greg is a Senior Fellow at TED and the recipient of the White House Champion of Change from Barack Obama award for his commitment to citizen science. Greg Gage 00:00 intro 02:28 Graduate Work to Brain Interface Company 20:40 Neuralink, EMG and Cyborgs 28:57 Electrode Scarring, Heart Stunts and Neura...2021-04-301h 24The Minhaaj's PodcastDigital Consciousness and Behavioral Science with Fabio PereiraFabio Pereira is leading the Open Innovation Labs initiative in Latin America at Red Hat. Open Innovation Labs is an intensive, highly focused residency in an environment designed to experiment, immerse and catalyze innovation. He is the author of the book "Digital Nudge: The hidden forces behind the 35,000 decisions we make every day". He had been a Principal Consultant, a Digital Transformation Advisor at ThoughtWorks, a large software consultancy firm for over 10 years.Fabio Pereira00:00 intro00:30 35,000 Decisions , Cognitive Overload and Delegation to Technology02:30 Pre-Modern Man’s Cognitive Load and Number of Choic...2021-04-102h 04The Minhaaj's PodcastQuantitative Investing with Vivek ViswanathanVivek Viswanathan, is Global Head of Research at Rayliant Global Advisors founded by the brilliant, Jason Hsu (managed $145 Billion). Rayliant Quantamental China Equity ETF is a $22 Billion active portfolio employing a systematic approach to harvesting behavioral alpha by exploiting mispricings among Chinese stocks traded in markets around the world. We will be talking about Archegos, GameStop, Chinese Market and Algorithmic Trade, and much more. Don't miss this one!# Vivek00:00 intro00:47 Fundamentals of Stock Investment 05:16 Blind Optimism, FOMO and Psychology of Investment09:30 Quant Investing, Fundamental and Technical A...2021-04-022h 05The Minhaaj's PodcastBig Data, AI and Health Care with Prashant Natarajan VP H20.aiPrashant Natarajan is the Vice President of H20.ai Health and Life Sciences division with a record of turning things around at Siemens Oracle Deloitte Unum. He is a Co-Faculty Instructor at Stanford University, author of numerous best-selling books e.g. “Demystifying Big Data & Machine Learning for Healthcare,” published by Taylor & Francis. His latest book is on its way " Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for the Enterprise: Building Tomorrow’s Self-Driving Organization (upcoming 2021)".--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-03-272h 05The Minhaaj's PodcastRemote Work with Wayne TurmelFor 25 years, Wayne Turmel has been obsessed with how people communicate at work. For the last 15, he’s focused on communicating through technology. He is a co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute (www.RemoteLeadershipInstitute.com) , and author or co-author of 13 books including The Long-Distance Teammate, Stay Engaged and Connected While Working Anywhere, and The Long-Distance Leader, Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership. He’s had the honor of working with clients around the globe. Originally from Canada, Wayne now lives and works in Las Vegas.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-03-201h 56The Minhaaj's PodcastBioinformatics with Chanin Nantasenamat aka Data ProfessorOn Friday, March 5th, I will be talking to one of the best data science mentors on Youtube, known for his work in bioinformatics and machine learning. His colorful infographics, succinct visualizations of the concepts, and depth of knowledge amaze every beginner in data science. Chanin Nantasenamat is also known as 'Data Professor', a name everyone knows if they have ever searched for 'data science' on youtube. He is the head of 'Center of Data Mining and Biomedical Informatics' at Mahidol University, Thailand, and an Associate Professor as well. He has held visiting professor positions at Uppsala University in Sw...2021-03-052h 25The Minhaaj's PodcastNeuroscience of Memory with Dr Boris KonradUp next on Psyda Podcast is Dr Boris Nikolai Konrad. He is 8x team world champion, holds 4x Guinness Book World records, holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, has degrees in physics and computer sciences, and trains people in techniques like Method of Loci, Mnemonics and Mind Palace (explained in Sherlock & Netflix series 'Memory Games'). He is a TEDx speaker, appears on media regularly including Germany's super popular program 'The Brain', and shows in Chinese, Russian, Italian and Dutch Media. He is featured in BBC News, NPR, CNN, Psyc...2021-03-032h 14The Minhaaj's PodcastInfonomics with Doug LaneyProbably one of the richest conversations I have had from a business perspective on Data Science, Infonomics, AI and Psychology of Patterns.Here are some of the key takeaways:1. The Wall Street Journal quoted Doug Laney saying ‘ Its flummoxing that companies have better accounting for their office furniture than their information assets’.2. United and American Airline’s third party valuation based on collateral customer loyalty data is 3-4 times more than their actual market cap.3. ‘Kushim’ from Yuval Noah Harari’s book 'Sapiens', the first known human being was an accountant, which tells a lot about...2021-02-241h 49The Minhaaj's PodcastPsychometrics with Dr Okan BulutOn Tuesday, February 16th,2021 I will be talking to one of the leading psychometricians Dr. Okan Bulut. He is a professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta and has worked at premier institutions developing assessments at Pearson, PluralSight, and the American Institute of Research. He is the author of the book 'Handbook of educational measurement and psychometrics using R.'--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-02-172h 20The Minhaaj's PodcastML at Amazon with Greg CoquilloIt was a true blast talking to Greg Coquillo. It is always a pleasure talking to such a good sport and insightful leader and he truly is Amazon material. Here are some of the highlights of our conversation:1. The trick to coming out of college debt-free is to go to a community college first.2. Gamestop has really changed the world for the better.3. Greg would invent the internet if given a chance to time travel back.4. Bitcoin is still a big no for Greg Coquillo’s investments...2021-02-072h 05The Minhaaj's PodcastArtificial Intelligence with Luis SerranoOn February 3rd, I talked to Zapata scientist, Dr. Luis Serrano, the author of the best-selling ‘Grokking Machine Learning’ book published by Manning Publications Co. He has worked at Google as a machine learning engineer, at Udacity as the head of AI content, and at Apple as a lead AI educator. He runs a popular YouTube channel where he explains machine learning in layperson terms.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-02-032h 19The Minhaaj's PodcastPLSpredict with Dr Souyma RayDr Soumya Ray is an Associate Professor, ISS, NTHU Director of Center for Service Innovation and Analytics in Taiwan.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-02-031h 09The Minhaaj's PodcastPLS Structural Equation Modeling with Marko SarstedtMarko Sarstedt is a chaired professor of marketing at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany) and an adjunct professor at Monash University Malaysia. His main research interest is the advancement of research methods to further the understanding of consumer behavior. His research has been published in Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Organizational Research Methods, MIS Quarterly etc--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-02-031h 45The Minhaaj's PodcastTensorflow JS with Jason MayesJason Mayes is a developer advocate at Google. He defines himself as a Hybrid Web Developer, Programmer, Technical Consultant, and Analyst, with a creative twist who loves to innovate, inspire, and simplify solutions--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-02-021h 17The Minhaaj's PodcastEmotional Psychology and HCI with Hakan SilfvernagelWhat if AI could measure human emotions also and is sensitive to how we feel? How do we measure pain? Is data science able to predict human emotions with reasonable accuracy? Find out by joining my podcast with the world's leading AI in emotional psychology expert Hakan Silfvernagel from Miles AS Norway. Håkan holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and in addition, he holds a Master’s degree in Leadership and Organizational behavior.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-02-021h 11The Minhaaj's PodcastNLP with Vance StevensTools like Grammarly, Ref n Write and Scholarcy are all outcome of Natural Language Processing and helps in writing academic papers that are of high quality. On December 6th, i'll be talking to expert in computer assisted language teaching Vance Stevens. Vance has trained pilots in UAE and has spent 40 years working around the world teaching English using cutting edge technologies as SecondLife. We will be discussing issues like academic writing and modern day tools for intelligent research.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-02-021h 50The Minhaaj's PodcastNeural Networks with Josh StarmerThis weekend I am talking with the CEO of StatQuest and YouTube celebrity, Dr. Josh Stramer from StatQuest. Dr. Josh Starmer has been an assistant professor at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina and his fame comes from his visualization of statistical concepts. He has recently launched his Neural Networks series which has immensely become popular. We'll be talking about his neural network series. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-02-021h 40The Minhaaj's PodcastPersonality Psychology with Dr Alex ChristensenOn January 15th, 2021 I talked to my colleague and one of the most prolific researchers in personality psychology Dr. Alex Christensen about how the understanding self can be a window into self-growth. Alex is also creating, maintaining, and co-authoring several R packages: EGAnet, NetworkToolbox, SemNeT, SemNetCleaner, and SemNetDictionaires.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-02-022h 00
The Minhaaj's PodcastData Science with Giovanna & ThomDr Thom Ives, Ph.D. is the founder of UL, and Giovanna-Reggina Galleno-Malaga is a community builder in Data Science and Machine learning domains.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-02-012h 02
The Minhaaj's PodcastExtreme Medicine with Mark HannafordMark Hannaford is an honorary associate professor awarded for his work in Extreme Medicine by the University of Exeter Medical School and is the founding director of World Extreme Medicine, an International Fellow of the prestigious New York-based Explorers Club, and Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. He founded an Msc Program in Extreme Medicine at Exeter University. The UK.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/message2021-02-011h 12