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Nachiket is the Global Head, Data & Analytics Engineering at Wayfair. In that role, he spearheaded the company’s global implementation of data mesh. In this episode, Nachiket describes the four pillars of data mesh, and in doing so, he shares a rare front-line view of client-side operations involving data governance, […]

Zach is the Senior Director, Head of AI, Data Science and Analytics at Fortune Brands, a portfolio of brands that includes names like Yale, Master Lock, SentrySafe, Moen faucets, House of Rohl and Therma‑Tru, among others. In this episode, Zach describes his journey from a PhD in Mathematics with an […]

Pavel holds two gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze on Kaggle. He’s also the author of several well-known libraries, including one that has about 20,000 stars on GitHub. Currently, he’s a member of the open source engineering team at Hugging Face. This episode covers Pavel’s journey from growing […]

This episode features a conversation with Max Mozgovoy, co-founder of VoxDiscover, which plans to use Gen AI to interview customers for user experience (UX) research done by app developers, or for customer lifecycle research, to build customer journey maps or personas, or to identify which features to add or change […]

With a PhD in machine learning and a specialization in computer vision, Marwa has done deep learning projects across several industries and is currently at Alohi, a Switzerland-based startup with 4 million users of document solutions like Sign.Plus, Fax.Plus and Scan.Plus. In this episode, she describes her journey from formal […]

Iqbal holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, with a specialization in computer algorithms and graph theory. He is currently the Research Data Science Director at the University of Arizona. Aside from his innovative achievement in creating a knowledge map for the university (kmap.arizona.edu), he has one of the […]

Jeffrey is one of those rare people who knew exactly what he wanted to do from an early age: Use mathematics to solve business problems. After earning his Masters Degree in Statistics from the University of Chicago, he went on to do high-impact analytics work in banking, retail and telco, […]

Tapan is the Executive Director of Marketing Sciences at OMD. This episode is a very thorough compendium of marketing science principles and practices, as applied to decisions about paid media. Topics include: These ideas are brought to life with an example from a financial services brand, planning a big launch, […]

With a specialization in 3D deep learning, Aida is doing ground-breaking work related to 3D simulations. In this episode, she first describes why meshes or point clouds are computationally-expensive for simulating changes to shapes. She then describes why “implicit fields” are much more efficient for this, as described in the […]