Dean's Distinguished Lecture with Bratin Saha

About the Talk

Machine learning (ML) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformational technologies that is opening up new opportunities for innovation in every domain across software, finance, health care, manufacturing, media, entertainment and others. This talk will discuss the key trends that are driving AI/ML innovation, how enterprises are using AI/ML today to innovate how they run their businesses, the key technology challenges in scaling out ML and generative AI across the enterprise, some of the key innovations from Amazon, and how this field is likely to evolve in the future.

About the Speaker

Dr. Bratin Saha is the vice president of machine learning and AI services at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where he leads all the ML and AI services and helped build one of the fastest growing businesses in AWS history. In 2022, Harvard Business School wrote three case studies on how he built the machine learning business at AWS. He is an alum of Harvard Business School (General Management Program), Yale University (Ph.D. Computer Science) and the Indian Institute of Technology (B.Tech. Computer Science). He has more than 70 patents granted (with another 50+ pending) and more than 30 papers in conferences/journals. Prior to Amazon, he worked at NVIDIA and Intel leading different product groups spanning imaging, analytics, media processing, high performance computing, machine learning and software infrastructure.