Ameet Talwalkar

Ameet Talwalkar is an associate professor in the Machine Learning Department at CMU and a Venture Partner at Amplify Partners. His work is motivated by the goal of democratizing machine learning, with an interest in ML for science, human-AI interaction, and problems at the intersection of systems and learning. He co-founded Determined AI (acquired by HPE), helped create MLlib in Apache Spark, co-authored the textbook 'Foundations of Machine Learning,' and created an award-winning edX MOOC on distributed machine learning. He also spearheaded the creation of the MLSys conference.