AIMI Research Group Meeting: The Wicklow AI in Medicine Research Initiative, Jeremy Howard, Data Scientist
Event Details:
Location
Li Ka Shing, LK306
United States
This event is for the Stanford community.
Jeremy Howard is an entrepreneur, business strategist, developer, and educator. Jeremy is a founding researcher at fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to making deep learning more accessible. He is also a faculty member at the University of San Francisco, and CSO at doc.ai and platform.ai.
Jeremy’s most recent startup, Enlitic, was the first company to apply deep learning to medicine. He was previously the President and Chief Scientist of the data science platform Kaggle, where he was the top ranked participant in international machine learning competitions 2 years running. He was the founding CEO of two successful Australian startups (FastMail, and Optimal Decisions Group–purchased by Lexis-Nexis). Before that, he spent 8 years in management consulting, at McKinsey & Co, and AT Kearney.
He has many television and other video appearances, including as a regular guest on Australia’s highest-rated breakfast news program, a popular talk on TED.com, and data science and web development tutorials and discussions.