Time to Trust
Vin Sharma
Built deep learning platform for Amazon SageMaker; private cloud for BMW autonomous cars; open source software at Intel; web, Linux, and HPUX security at Hewlett-Packard
Zdravko Pantic
Built LLM training engine for Amazon SageMaker, made TensorFlow & PyTorch train at scale on AWS; led graphics engineering at Intel
Subho Majumdar, Ph. D.
Author Practicing Trustworthy ML; Led responsible AI teams at Amazon Twitch, Splunk, & AT&T Labs; 40+ papers and 20+ patents
Zubin Aysola
Previously at Amazon Twitch; Working on NLP applied science since BERT; led a data-science team to a successful exit. When not thinking about language models, either listening to vinyl, hitting the slopes, or trying to shoot under 80 on the links.
CMU, University of Michigan
Pradeep Das
Previously at Amazon Music, Oracle, and Viiv Labs; co-founder & CTO of Adya (acquired by Qualys). Passionate about designing and building large-scale ML systems with a focus on NLP/LLMs. Enjoys reading, hiking, cooking, & doing nothing.
Akrura Gordillo
Previously at Riva Health, Viiv Labs, Solvvy, and Polycom. Over 20 years of software engineering experience. Most recently, led threat modeling and cybersecurity analysis of medical device to prepare for FDA approval.
University of California, Berkeley
Leif Hancox-Li, Ph. D.
Previously at CapitalOne, evaluating LLMs for company-wide use. Working in the field of responsible AI since 2019, including building explainability solutions, establishing responsible AI processes, and publishing interdisciplinary research at venues like FAccT. Tries to spend at least one week a year walking in the mountains.
Subaru Ueno
Previously at Amazon, Oracle, and Accenture. Working on AI/ML security engineering since 2019. Most recently, led red-teaming for Amazon AI models. Indiana University
Anuj Tambwekar
Previously at Microsoft. Research interest in trustworthy AI, ML for human safety, and autonomous vehicles.
University of Michigan
Alexander Beach
With over 12 years of software development experience at a number of startups and large companies including iHeartRadio and Tesla. Most recently at BrainCorp, built the cluster for ML training jobs on GKE. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Varun Cherukuri
Cloud infrastructure engineer. Most recently at MIST (acquired by Juniper), built the conversational interface to Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, designed to diagnose and resolve networking issues. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ryan Nabors
Leads business development and partnerships, with over 15 years of enterprise sales experience at Foursquare, Gimbal, and Apple.
You
Applied Scientist or Software Developer
Leon Derczynski
LLM Security pioneer
Professor, ITU Copenhagen
Principal Scientist, Nvidia
Founder - Garak & Nemo Guardrails
Lead - OWASP LLM Top 10
Ruslan Salakhtudinov
Deep Learning pioneer
UPMC Professor of CS at CMU
Senior Fellow of CIFAR, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow,
Google Faculty Award, Nvidia Pioneers of AI award
Bratin Saha
Chief Product and Technical Officer, Digital Ocean
Former VP and GM, AWS AI
Joe Spisak
Product Director & Head of Generative AI Open Source, Meta
Previously Google, Amazon