Guest Speakers
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Gavin Hall - AI Scientist at Tesla
Senior Staff AI Scientist at Tesla
A Senior Staff AI Scientist at Tesla and WVU Alum, Gavin Hall spoke with club members about his experience creating an impacting energy optimizing neural network for the Fremont Tesla Gigafactory. His work was so successful that his algorithm is used at every Tesla Gigafactory in the world.
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Blaise Arbogast - Data Scientist at Noblis
Data Scientist at Noblis
Data Scientist and WVU Alum, Blaise Arbogast came in to talk to the club about being a data scientist in a government contracting company. He spoke on the basics of AI and what steps members should take to pursue a career in data science.
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Vito D'Orazio at WVU Data Science
WVU Data Science Professor
In February 2023 Dr. Vito D'Orazio spoke with club members about his work in Conflict Forecasting with machine learning systems.
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Tom Devine - WVU Computer Science Professor
Computer Science Professor
Dr. Devine spoke with AIWVU about his PhD dissertation on detecting pulsars with semi-supervised learning on a distributed system. He walked us through the entire process from inception, to first steps, to the groundbreaking research used to detect the presence of pulsars from thousands of terabytes of data.
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Brianna Maze - Machine Learning Engineer at NextGen Federal Systems
Principal Machine Learning and Computer Vision Engineer at NextGen Federal Systems
In Fall 2023, Brianna Maze spoke with AIWVU about her work as Principal Machine Learning and Computer Vision Engineer at NextGen Federal Systems. She gave an in depth look at some of her work including research on deep learning based weather prediction, facial recognition in the wild, and model bias.