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Competing in a Generative World
Long-form conversation with Ben Lorica on how PM, evaluation, and moats have shifted since generative AI became the substrate.
A.I. Revolution
Featured on the PBS NOVA prime-time science documentary on AI, alongside Hany Farid, on detecting and defending against deepfakes.
Yelp economic data on CNN's global markets show
Live interview on Yelp's business-closure and reopening data during the pandemic, as part of CNN International's live markets coverage.
Federated ML for Edge Applications
Early practical framing of federated learning at Cloudera Fast Forward Labs — a technique that has since become mainstream.
Rewards and challenges of building and scaling a custom AI system
Keynote on running an in-house ML platform at scale, drawn from Yelp's Bunsen experimentation stack.
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Generative AI in the Real World: Competing in a Generative World
With Ben Lorica on how the moats and workflows around AI products have shifted.
Federated ML for Edge Applications
With Sam Charrington on federated learning at Cloudera Fast Forward Labs.
How Yelp Integrates DS, Engineering, UX, and PM to Ship AI Products
With Brian T. O'Neill on cross-functional AI product delivery.
Cloudera Data Science Workbench and ML Services
On the tooling gaps that hold enterprise ML back.
Interview with Dr. Justin Norman
Career arc across defense, big tech, research, and startups.
Computational Forensics in the Age of AI
Doctoral research lecture on forensic ML and generative-AI risk.
Evaluating Deep Facial Recognition Technologies
Overview of forensic evaluation methodology for facial recognition systems.
Building and Scaling a Custom AI System
Rewards, challenges, and org-design lessons from running Yelp's ML platform.
Machine Learning Model Deployment: Strategy to Implementation
Practical roadmap for shipping models to production.
Product Management for Data Science
On the DS-PM interface at Yelp.
Navigating the Road to Production
Deployment, monitoring, and the maintenance load of production ML.
California AI Science Residency Program on Frontier AI Safety
Appointment as an inaugural AI Science Advisor to CalOES and CDT.
Berkeley featured on PBS NOVA's A.I. Revolution
Deepfake detection research with Hany Farid on PBS's flagship science documentary.
Betaworks goes all in on augmentative AI in latest Camp cohort
Coverage of the Vera AI cohort.
U.S. Restaurant Openings Quicken, Hinting at Rebound
Yelp reopening trends as an early recovery signal.
AI needs systemic solutions to systemic bias, injustice, and inequality
Op-ed on structural fixes vs. patchwork mitigations in AI systems.
60% of pandemic business closures are now permanent
Coverage of Yelp economic recovery data.
Small businesses in the pandemic
Quoted analysis of Yelp closure trends.
140,000 businesses listed on Yelp still closed because of COVID-19
Yelp closure data as a leading indicator for the small-business economy.
Pandemic recovery for restaurants is slowing down
National radio segment on Yelp-observed recovery trajectories.
Bringing an AI Product to Market
What the "last mile" of shipping an AI product actually involves.
Practical Skills for the AI Product Manager
The AI PM role as it exists in practice, not as it's described.
AI Product Management After Deployment
Ongoing monitoring, retraining, and the maintenance load of production ML.
Rise of the Low-Code ML Toolboxes
Snapshot of the tooling shift toward higher-level abstractions in ML.
The True Competitive Advantage in ML
Why data plus feedback loops beat model choice, most of the time.