Special Talks

Subhrajit Roy
Senior Research Scientist and Manager at Google Research

He is a research scientist at Google Brain where his work primarily involves developing machine learning systems for analysing health data. Forbes magazine included Him in their 30 Under 30 list for his work to date!


Special talk topic:
ML in Healthcare


Arkajyoti Saha
Postdoctoral researcher, Statistics, University of Washington

He is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Statistics at University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  He completed M.Stat (Specialization: Mathematical Statistics and Probability) & B.Stat from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata prior to that.




Martin Riedmiller
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind


He is a research scientist and former professor for machine learning and now a team lead at DeepMind. His core scientific interest are intelligent machines, that are able to autonomously learn new things from scratch. His research on data-efficient reinforcement learning algorithms Neural Fitted Q Iteration (NFQ, 2005; NFQCA, 2011) and Deep Fitted Q (DFQ, 2010) laid the ground for many methods in current Artificial Intelligence (AI) research. 




Rohan Mukherjee
Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa







Danica J. Sutherland
Assistant Professor, UBC Computer Science








Stefano Ermon
Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford University