Adam Waksman's guest appearances

Adam Waksman

The Alldus Podcast - AI Mentors

Towards Data Science

Ben Goertzel

Jeremy Howard

Roland Memisevic

Max Welling

Ayanna Howard

Mike Tung

Margaret Mitchell

Ben Taylor

Melanie Mitchell

Gillian Hadfield

Anders Sandberg

Brian Christian

Scott Taylor

Joel Grus

Jeffrey Ding

OwlTail

Today's guest is Adam Waksman, Director of Engineering at BlackRock. Adam is an Executive Technology Leader with a focus on enterprise software delivery, product strategy, data management and data science, as well as CTO experience and knowledge of organizational design. He is also an accomplished scientist and mathematician, having made scientific contributions across fields in computer science, data science and neuroscience. BlackRock is a global asset manager who helps investors build better financial futures. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, BlackRock's clients turn to them for the solutions they need when planning for their most important goals. Launching over 30 years ago, their founding mission was to establish a firm that thinks differently about managing investment risks to best serve our clients, and this is still at their core today. In the episode, Scott will discuss: Transitioning his career into leadership, Advice to academics moving into industry, What to expect in your first Data Science role, What he enjoys about his role, How to best approach an interview, What excites him for the future within Data, and Advice on moving into leadership/management roles.

Today's guest is Adam Waksman, Director of Engineering at <a href="http://www.blackrock.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">BlackRock</a>. Adam is an Executive Technology Leader with a focus on enterprise software delivery, product strategy, data management and data science, as well as CTO experience and knowledge of organizational design. He is also an accomplished scientist and mathematician, having made scientific contributions across fields in computer science, data science and neuroscience. BlackRock is a global asset manager who helps investors build better financial futures. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, BlackRock's clients turn to them for the solutions they need when planning for their most important goals. Launching over 30 years ago, their founding mission was to establish a firm that thinks differently about managing investment risks to best serve our clients, and this is still at their core today. In the episode, Scott will discuss: Transitioning his career into leadership, Advice to academics moving into industry, What to expect in your first Data Science role, What he enjoys about his role, How to best approach an interview, What excites him for the future within Data, and Advice on moving into leadership/management roles.

E44 Adam Waksman, Director of Engineering at BlackRock

When I think of the trends I’ve seen in data science over the last few years, perhaps the most significant and hardest to ignore has been the increased focus on deployment and productionization of models. Not all companies need models deployed to production, of course but at those that do, there’s increasing pressure on data science teams to deliver software engineering along with machine learning solutions. That’s why I wanted to sit down with Adam Waksman, Head of Core Technology at Foursquare. Foursquare is a company built on data and machine learning: they were one of the first fully scaled social media-powered recommendation services that gained real traction, and now help over 50 million people find restaurants and services in countries around the world. Our conversation covered a lot of ground, from the interaction between software engineering and data science, to what he looks for in new hires, to the future of the field as a whole.

When I think of the trends I’ve seen in data science over the last few years, perhaps the most significant and hardest to ignore has been the increased focus on deployment and productionization of models. Not all companies need models deployed to production, of course but at those that do, there’s increasing pressure on data science teams to deliver software engineering along with machine learning solutions. That’s why I wanted to sit down with Adam Waksman, Head of Core Technology at Foursquare. Foursquare is a company built on data and machine learning: they were one of the first fully scaled social media-powered recommendation services that gained real traction, and now help over 50 million people find restaurants and services in countries around the world. Our conversation covered a lot of ground, from the interaction between software engineering and data science, to what he looks for in new hires, to the future of the field as a whole.

21. Adam Waksman - Data science is becoming software engineering