From Data Science Leader to ML Researcher with Rodrigo Rivera (Skoltech ADASE, Samsung NEXT)

Rodrigo Rivera is a machine learning researcher at the Advanced Data Analytics in Science and Engineering Group at Skoltech and technical director of Samsung Next. He's previously been in data science and research leadership roles at companies all around the world including Rocket Internet and Philip-Morris. Learn more about Rodrigo: https://rodrigo-rivera.com/ https://twitter.com/rodrigorivr Every Thursday I send out the most useful things I’ve learned, curated specifically for the busy machine learning engineer. Sign up here: https://www.cyou.ai/newsletter Follow Charlie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAI Subscribe to ML Engineered: https://mlengineered.com/listen Comments? Questions? Submit them here: http://bit.ly/mle-survey Take the Giving What We Can Pledge: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ Timestamps: 03:00 How Rodrigo got started in computer science and started his first company 10:40 Rodrigo's experiences leading data science teams at Rocket Internet and PMI 26:15 Leaving industry to get a PhD in machine learning 28:55 Data science collaboration between business and academia 32:45 Rodrigo's research interest in time series data 39:25 Topological data analysis 45:35 Framing effective research as a startup 48:15 Neural Prophet 01:04:10 The potential future of Julia for numerical computing 01:08:20 Most exciting opportunities for ML in industry 01:15:05 Rodrigo's advice for listeners 01:17:00 Rapid fire questions Links: Rodrigo's Google Scholar Advanced Data Analytics in Science and Engineering Group Neural Prophet M-Competitions Machine Learning Refined Foundations of Machine Learning A First Course in Machine Learning