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only received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 2016 having interned at OpenAI and Google DeepMind. He’s at the forefront of the autonomous vehicle revolution as Director of AI at Tesla and also a prolific blogger on topics like neural net enabled Software 2.0.

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Founder and CEO at Matroid, a computer vision startup, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. His work focuses on Machine Learning, Distributed Computing, and Discrete Applied Mathematics. His awards include a KDD Best Paper Award and the Gene Golub Outstanding Thesis Award. He has been working on Artificial Intelligence since 2005 when, at the age of 18, he was part of Google’s AI research team.

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Technical Director of Applied AI at Google, where he leads AI experiments and collaborates with Google Product and Engineering for AI products. He engages deeply with Global F500 enterprises to unlock strategic value with AI. Previously, Ron was the founding CEO of Think Big Analytics. Ron holds a BS in math and computer science with honors from McGill University and a master’s degree in computer science from MIT, where he also pursued a PhD.

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is an associate professor at SUNY and author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. As models become prolific in our society practitioners must be of vigilant to the unintentional consequences that Virginia exposes.

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Kirk Borne is a data scientist and an astrophysicist who has used his talents at Booz Allen since 2015. He was professor of astrophysics and computational science at George Mason University (GMU) for 12 years. Kirk spent nearly 20 years supporting NASA projects.

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