Working Together Across Cultures
Keynote on navigating cross-cultural communication, especially the nuances of high-context and low-context cultures.
About me
I'm passionate about using AI and machine learning to solve real-world challenges. As a tech leader, author, and educator, I focus on making complex concepts practical and actionable.
Essays and field notes on applied AI, product thinking, and ML systems.
A practical explanation of why speculative decoding speeds up generation in large language models.
A practical read on general-purpose AI definitions and why regulatory clarity matters.
How generative systems can act like a production line for creative assets, with humans in the loop.
Book
Blueprints for Text Analytics Using Python · O'Reilly Media (Dec 2020)
Co-authored with Jens Albrecht and Christian Winkler. This book serves as a practical guide to building NLP systems - from text classification to knowledge extraction including deployment best practices. Although a bit out of date now, the fundamentals it provides are well appreciated and used in University courses.
Recent keynotes, workshops, and conference sessions.
Keynote on navigating cross-cultural communication, especially the nuances of high-context and low-context cultures.
Building Content Understanding, a presentation on how integrating data across audio, video, and text can transform content understanding.
Developing a Content Knowledge Graph by integrating diverse media types for a media platform that serves as a universal source of truth.
Live sessions and self-paced programs for teams and individuals.
Workshops
Teams are drowning in AI features but don't know where to start. We start from how your team works today and show them how to integrate AI to work for them. Make your team's life easier & fun!
Get in touch →Courses
An end to end course on turning AI research into real products. This derives from my experience of building PodSumo - your AI podcast agent. Watch on YouTube.
Watch on YouTube →Open to speaking, advisory, and consulting. If your team is building with AI, let's talk.