🍕Pizza Chat with Prof. Sid Dalal
Tue, Oct 01
|New York
🍕 Pizza Chat with Prof is a casual event where students can have open conversations with APAN professors. Each session features a professor sharing their academic and professional experiences. Please register the event through the SPS Engage, Thanks!
Time & Location
Oct 01, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
New York, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA
About the Event
Prof. Siddhartha (Sid) Dalal is a Professor of Practice at Columbia University, where he teaches, researches, and mentors startups. Before Columbia, he was Chief Data Scientist and Sr. VP at AIG in charge of R&D, CTO at RAND Corporation, VP of worldwide research on imaging and software at Xerox, and Chief Scientist at Bell Labs/Bellcore.
He has an MBA and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester with over 100 peer-reviewed publications, patents, and monographs in AI, Statistics, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Public Policy, and Sensors/IOT. His past work with big impact includes Risk Analysis of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the ExpertLens system for Eliciting Opinions from a large pool of Non-Collocated Experts with Diverse Knowledge, an efficient test generation system, and identifying ransomware actors on the Bitcoin network.
His recent projects include Statistical Underpinnings of Large Language Models, Interactive Learning of Ancient Knowledge from Low Resource Language, Collaborative Decision Making…