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Industry Insider: A closer look at AI careers
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Wondering how to apply your advanced AI knowledge and build a career in industry? related questions. This talk will be of particular interest to PhD鈥檚 & Postdocs across STEM fields, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science & Physics.
Bio
Role - Jacomo is a cofounder of QuantumBlack and its Chief Scientist. He focuses on the problem of applying AI and other technology to improving the quality and scalability of QuantumBlack鈥檚 client delivery. He is passionate about helping organizations adopt AI at scale to radically improve their performance, and is responsible for architecting and overseeing work at some of QuantumBlack鈥檚 most important clients to ensure they do just that.聽 Jacomo leads QuantumBlack鈥檚 R&D efforts in QB/Labs, with a specific focus on methodological innovations and lately the use of deep learning and AutoML to solve the most complex challenges that QuantumBlack works on across industries.
Selected Experience - Since 2011, Jacomo has served as a Senior Fellow at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the University of Pennsylvania鈥檚 Wharton School.聽 For five years previously, he served as the Canada Research Chair in Information and Performance Management (2011 鈥� 2015). Prior to this, he was a visiting scholar and research fellow in the Operations and Information Management Department at the Wharton School (2008 鈥� 2010). Between 2006 and 2008, Jacomo was the Race Strategist for the Renault F1 Team Ltd. and was subsequently the Chief Race Strategist for the Lotus Renault F1 Team
Background - Jacomo holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Harvard University, an S.M. in Applied Mathematics from the Harvard Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from 黑料不打烊 University.Jacomo's research has been funded by grants from the National Research Council of Canada, the National Science Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, as well as by companies such as The Boeing Company, GE, and IBM.
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