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From PhD To IPO
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| With Tara Sainath (Tech Lead, Google DeepMind), Jonathan Frankle (Chief AI Scientist, Databricks), Alex Wiltschko (Founder/CEO, Osmo), Stephen Roller (Thinking Machines Lab). |
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Sep 24 (Wed) , 2025 @ 05:00 PM
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What does it take to make the leap from academic research to company building?
South Park Commons NYC is convening researchers, engineers, & early-stage founders for an in-depth conversation on how the frontiers of research shape the future of technology. Join us!
Panelists include:
Jonathan Frankle is Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, where he leads the AI research team toward the goal of bringing the latest advances in large language models, computer vision, & reinforcement learning to Databricks' tens of thousands of enterprise customers. He arrived via Databricks' $1.3B acquisition of MosaicML, which he co-founded & led as Chief Scientist. He earned his PhD at MIT, where he empirically studied deep learning, specifically the properties of sparse networks that allow them to train effectively (his "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" - ICLR Best Paper). He earned his BSE & MSE in computer science at Princeton.
Dr. Tara Sainath holds an S.B., M.Eng, & PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT. Her expertise in speech recognition & deep neural networks led to a 5 year stint at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, & currently fuels her work as a Tech Lead in Google DeepMind's Audio Pillar. There, she focuses on the integration of audio capabilities with large language models (LLMs). She has served as a member of the IEEE Speech & Language Processing Technical Committee (SLTC) as well as the Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, & Language Processing. Her primary research interests are in deep neural networks for speech recognition.
Alex Wiltschko is Founder & CEO of Osmo, on a mission to give computers a sense of smell. He is a repeat entrepreneur & has spent much of his career exploring new frontiers & building businesses at the intersection of AI & biology. Previously, he was a research leader at Google DeepMind, & has founded & exited two AI companies (Syllable, sold to Neumora; Whetlab, sold to Twitter). Alex holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University.
Stephen Roller is a Member of the Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab, working on Pretraining & Scaling. Previously he worked as a pretraining researcher at Gemini, CharacterAI, & Facebook AI Research.
Agenda:
5pm: Doors Open
5:30-6:30pm: Panel Discussion & Q&A
6:30-7pm: Networking
Registration & approval is required & space is limited, so please RSVP soon.
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