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Ameet Talwalkar
Ameet Talwalkar is an assistant professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University , and also co-founder and chief scientist at Determined AI . He led the initial development of the MLlib project in Apache Spark , is a co-author of the textbook Foundations of Machine Learning (MIT Press), and created an award-winning edX MOOC on distributed machine learning.
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