E10 Mike Tamir, Head of Data Science at Uber ATG

Today’s guest on the show is Mike Tamir, Head of Data Science at Uber ATG in San Francisco. Uber are working to bring the future closer with self-driving technology and urban air transport. They also help people order food quickly and affordably, remove barriers to healthcare, create new freight-booking solutions and help companies provide a seamless employee travel experience.

Mike is a leader in Data science, specializing in deep learning and distributed scalable machine learning. He has a wealth of experience delivering data products for use cases including text comprehension, image recognition, recommender systems, targeted advertising and customer analytics. He is a pioneer in developing machine learning and data science training programs in the industry.

In the show today, Mike will tell you about:

• How he became interested in Data Science
• His role at Uber ATG
• Applying Deep Learning to evaluate article embedding in fake news evaluation
• Learning and sharing interesting content on social media
• Advice he would share to Data Scientists moving from academia to industry
• Emerging trends in AI and Data Science that excite him for the future