Balaji Sharma has over 10 years of experience in mechanical engineering, earning a BE, MS, and PhD focused on signal processing, experimental modal analysis, control theory, and distributed sensing and control systems. He has worked on projects involving automotive vibrations, distributed control of UAV swarms, and data analytics. Balaji is seeking R&D opportunities involving data analytics for distributed systems, spatio-temporal estimation, signal processing for hardware/sensors, and algorithms for connected vehicles and IoT.
Making Internet Of Things Device Data Just Work!Memoori
Making Internet of Things Device Data Just Work! Memoori Talks to John Petze and Marc Petock from Project Haystack - www.project-haystack.org - about the importance of data interoperability and how Project Haystack provides a universal markup language to capture IoT device data semantics.
Making Internet Of Things Device Data Just Work!Memoori
Making Internet of Things Device Data Just Work! Memoori Talks to John Petze and Marc Petock from Project Haystack - www.project-haystack.org - about the importance of data interoperability and how Project Haystack provides a universal markup language to capture IoT device data semantics.
Choosing the right software for your research study : an overview of leading ...Merlien Institute
Choosing the right software for your research study : an overview of leading CAQDAS packages by Christina Silver. This presentation is part of the proceedings of the International workshop on Computer-Aided Qualitative Research organised by Merlien Institute. This workshop was held on the 4-5 June in Utrecht, The Netherlands
Recommendation Engines are everywhere these days, telling us which products to buy on Amazon, which movies to watch on Netflix, which courses to take on Coursera, and on and on. This presentation is a description of the collaborative filtering and content-based recommendation engines at Jane.com, Inc magazine's fastest-growing e-commerce company of 2015.
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Paco Nathan, Director of Community Evangelism at Databricks
Apache Spark is intended as a fast and powerful general purpose engine for processing Hadoop data. Spark supports combinations of batch processing, streaming, SQL, ML, Graph, etc., for applications written in Scala, Java, Python, Clojure, and R, among others. In this talk, I'll explore how Spark fits into the Big Data landscape. In addition, I'll describe other systems with which Spark pairs nicely, and will also explain why Spark is needed for the work ahead.
Building Intelligent Applications, Experimental ML with Uber’s Data Science W...Databricks
In this talk, we will explore how Uber enables rapid experimentation of machine learning models and optimization algorithms through the Uber’s Data Science Workbench (DSW). DSW covers a series of stages in data scientists’ workflow including data exploration, feature engineering, machine learning model training, testing and production deployment. DSW provides interactive notebooks for multiple languages with on-demand resource allocation and share their works through community features.
It also has support for notebooks and intelligent applications backed by spark job servers. Deep learning applications based on TensorFlow and Torch can be brought into DSW smoothly where resources management is taken care of by the system. The environment in DSW is customizable where users can bring their own libraries and frameworks. Moreover, DSW provides support for Shiny and Python dashboards as well as many other in-house visualization and mapping tools.
In the second part of this talk, we will explore the use cases where custom machine learning models developed in DSW are productionized within the platform. Uber applies Machine learning extensively to solve some hard problems. Some use cases include calculating the right prices for rides in over 600 cities and applying NLP technologies to customer feedbacks to offer safe rides and reduce support costs. We will look at various options evaluated for productionizing custom models (server based and serverless). We will also look at how DSW integrates into the larger Uber’s ML ecosystem, e.g. model/feature stores and other ML tools, to realize the vision of a complete ML platform for Uber.
Uber - Building Intelligent Applications, Experimental ML with Uber’s Data Sc...Karthik Murugesan
In this talk, we will explore how Uber enables rapid experimentation of machine learning models and optimization algorithms through the Uber’s Data Science Workbench (DSW). DSW covers a series of stages in data scientists’ workflow including data exploration, feature engineering, machine learning model training, testing and production deployment. DSW provides interactive notebooks for multiple languages with on-demand resource allocation and share their works through community features.
It also has support for notebooks and intelligent applications backed by spark job servers. Deep learning applications based on TensorFlow and Torch can be brought into DSW smoothly where resources management is taken care of by the system. The environment in DSW is customizable where users can bring their own libraries and frameworks. Moreover, DSW provides support for Shiny and Python dashboards as well as many other in-house visualization and mapping tools.
In the second part of this talk, we will explore the use cases where custom machine learning models developed in DSW are productionized within the platform. Uber applies Machine learning extensively to solve some hard problems. Some use cases include calculating the right prices for rides in over 600 cities and applying NLP technologies to customer feedbacks to offer safe rides and reduce support costs. We will look at various options evaluated for productionizing custom models (server based and serverless). We will also look at how DSW integrates into the larger Uber’s ML ecosystem, e.g. model/feature stores and other ML tools, to realize the vision of a complete ML platform for Uber.
A changing market landscape and open source innovations are having a dramatic impact on the consumability and ease of use of data science tools. Join this session to learn about the impact these trends and changes will have on the future of data science. If you are a data scientist, or if your organization relies on cutting edge analytics, you won't want to miss this!
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https://bigscience.huggingface.co/
EN: Presentation of the BigScience project: a research initiative launched by HuggingFace and aiming to build a large language model (inspired by OpenAI and GPTx) over multiple languages and a very large processing cluster. The participants plan to investigate the dataset and the model from all angles: bias, social impact, capabilities, limitations, ethics, potential improvements, specific domain performances, carbon impact, general AI/cognitive research landscape.
FR : Présentation du projet Bigscience : un projet de recherche ouvert lancé par HuggingFace et qui a pour objectif de contruire un modèle de langue (ie un peu comme openAI et GPT-3) mais en explorant les problèmes liés au jeux de données et au modèle selon les angles des biais cognitifs, de l'impact social et environemental, des limites éthiques, des possibles gain de performance et de l'impact général de ce type d'approche lorsque le but n'est pas seulement "d'avoir un plus gros modèle".
Will Robots Replace Designers? No. It's more like an exoskeleton for designers. Algorithm-driven design tools can help us to construct a UI, prepare assets and content, and personalize the user experience. In 2016 the technological foundations of these tools became easily accessible, and the design community got interested in algorithms, neural networks and artificial intelligence (AI). Now is the time to rethink the modern role of the designer.
Choosing the right software for your research study : an overview of leading ...Merlien Institute
Choosing the right software for your research study : an overview of leading CAQDAS packages by Christina Silver. This presentation is part of the proceedings of the International workshop on Computer-Aided Qualitative Research organised by Merlien Institute. This workshop was held on the 4-5 June in Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Big Data Everywhere Chicago: Apache Spark Plus Many Other Frameworks -- How S...BigDataEverywhere
Paco Nathan, Director of Community Evangelism at Databricks
Apache Spark is intended as a fast and powerful general purpose engine for processing Hadoop data. Spark supports combinations of batch processing, streaming, SQL, ML, Graph, etc., for applications written in Scala, Java, Python, Clojure, and R, among others. In this talk, I'll explore how Spark fits into the Big Data landscape. In addition, I'll describe other systems with which Spark pairs nicely, and will also explain why Spark is needed for the work ahead.
Building Intelligent Applications, Experimental ML with Uber’s Data Science W...Databricks
In this talk, we will explore how Uber enables rapid experimentation of machine learning models and optimization algorithms through the Uber’s Data Science Workbench (DSW). DSW covers a series of stages in data scientists’ workflow including data exploration, feature engineering, machine learning model training, testing and production deployment. DSW provides interactive notebooks for multiple languages with on-demand resource allocation and share their works through community features.
It also has support for notebooks and intelligent applications backed by spark job servers. Deep learning applications based on TensorFlow and Torch can be brought into DSW smoothly where resources management is taken care of by the system. The environment in DSW is customizable where users can bring their own libraries and frameworks. Moreover, DSW provides support for Shiny and Python dashboards as well as many other in-house visualization and mapping tools.
In the second part of this talk, we will explore the use cases where custom machine learning models developed in DSW are productionized within the platform. Uber applies Machine learning extensively to solve some hard problems. Some use cases include calculating the right prices for rides in over 600 cities and applying NLP technologies to customer feedbacks to offer safe rides and reduce support costs. We will look at various options evaluated for productionizing custom models (server based and serverless). We will also look at how DSW integrates into the larger Uber’s ML ecosystem, e.g. model/feature stores and other ML tools, to realize the vision of a complete ML platform for Uber.
Uber - Building Intelligent Applications, Experimental ML with Uber’s Data Sc...Karthik Murugesan
In this talk, we will explore how Uber enables rapid experimentation of machine learning models and optimization algorithms through the Uber’s Data Science Workbench (DSW). DSW covers a series of stages in data scientists’ workflow including data exploration, feature engineering, machine learning model training, testing and production deployment. DSW provides interactive notebooks for multiple languages with on-demand resource allocation and share their works through community features.
It also has support for notebooks and intelligent applications backed by spark job servers. Deep learning applications based on TensorFlow and Torch can be brought into DSW smoothly where resources management is taken care of by the system. The environment in DSW is customizable where users can bring their own libraries and frameworks. Moreover, DSW provides support for Shiny and Python dashboards as well as many other in-house visualization and mapping tools.
In the second part of this talk, we will explore the use cases where custom machine learning models developed in DSW are productionized within the platform. Uber applies Machine learning extensively to solve some hard problems. Some use cases include calculating the right prices for rides in over 600 cities and applying NLP technologies to customer feedbacks to offer safe rides and reduce support costs. We will look at various options evaluated for productionizing custom models (server based and serverless). We will also look at how DSW integrates into the larger Uber’s ML ecosystem, e.g. model/feature stores and other ML tools, to realize the vision of a complete ML platform for Uber.
A changing market landscape and open source innovations are having a dramatic impact on the consumability and ease of use of data science tools. Join this session to learn about the impact these trends and changes will have on the future of data science. If you are a data scientist, or if your organization relies on cutting edge analytics, you won't want to miss this!
Data Science. Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning. From startups to banks to the military, there is a growing demand for a new brand of expertise. Despite this need, many analytical job advertisements might as well be titled "Engineers Need Not Apply". Is engineering doomed in this brave new world of big data and deep neural networks? Fear not! In this talk, Dr. Aron Ahmadia, a seasoned data scientist and lead of Capital One's Machine Intelligence team, explains how an engineering education has become even more relevant in today's professional environments with rapidly evolving requirements, technologies, and teams. Learn about how an engineering degree prepares you for a career in data science: what courses to take, which programming languages are relevant, and what experience hiring managers are looking for.
https://bigscience.huggingface.co/
EN: Presentation of the BigScience project: a research initiative launched by HuggingFace and aiming to build a large language model (inspired by OpenAI and GPTx) over multiple languages and a very large processing cluster. The participants plan to investigate the dataset and the model from all angles: bias, social impact, capabilities, limitations, ethics, potential improvements, specific domain performances, carbon impact, general AI/cognitive research landscape.
FR : Présentation du projet Bigscience : un projet de recherche ouvert lancé par HuggingFace et qui a pour objectif de contruire un modèle de langue (ie un peu comme openAI et GPT-3) mais en explorant les problèmes liés au jeux de données et au modèle selon les angles des biais cognitifs, de l'impact social et environemental, des limites éthiques, des possibles gain de performance et de l'impact général de ce type d'approche lorsque le but n'est pas seulement "d'avoir un plus gros modèle".
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1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?
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2. BALAJI SHARMA balajirsharma@gmail.comBALAJI SHARMA balajirsharma@gmail.com
HELLO WORLD
1984 2006
BE, MECH. ENGG. >> datestr(now)
Wrote my first
piece of code
(only to realize world
domination needed other
skills)
2010 2013 2017
MS, MECH. ENGG.
PHD, MECH. ENGG.
ENTREPRENEURIAL LEAD, NSF I-CORPS
EDU TECHNICAL EVANGELIST, MATHWORKS
Developed my first
website
(Using Geocities, back
when Yahoo! was cool)
Joined Structural Dynamics
Research Lab, UCincinnati
(and spun clean puns around
shakers, vibrations and
excitations)
Joined Cooperative Distributed
Systems Lab, UCincinnati
(and discovered that robots made
for good conversationalists,
despite throwing tantrums)
Authored my first research paper
(and learnt a new language –
obfuscation academic jargon)
Selected for the
NSF I-Corps program
(stepped outside the
academic safety cocoon,
and into Silicon Valley for
product innovation)
Joined MathWorks (makers of MATLAB)
(the mothership called me home)
THESIS ON AUTOMOTIVE VIBRATIONS
Signal Processing, Experimental Modal Analysis,
Hydraulic Road Simulators, Sensors
DISSERTATION ON DISTRIBUTED SENSING/CONTROL
Multi-agent systems, Control Theory, Motion Tracking
Estimation methods, Multi-robot systems, Sensors
STRATEGIC TECHNICAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH HIGHER ED
Supporting Curriculum Development, Pedagogical Innovations,
Hardware for Project-based Learning, Conferences, Workshops
Discovered the joys of
working with large datasets
(serendipitously, to demonstrate
why Buffalo was cooler than
Albany, figuratively)
SEEKING R&D OPPORTUNITIES IN
data analytics for distributed systems,
spatio-temporal estimation and mapping,
signal processing for hardware systems and sensors,
algorithms for urban innovations (connected cars/IoT)
CAREER SUMMARY
3. BALAJI SHARMA balajirsharma@gmail.com
SKILLS
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATIONS
Signal Processing
Experimental Modal Analysis
Control Theory
Distributed Control Systems
Principal Component Analysis
Hardware and Robotic Platforms
Kalman Filtering for Spatio-Temporal Estimation
Algorithm Development
Data Wrangling and Automation
Exploratory Data Analysis
Data Visualization
Technical Presentations and Dissemination
APPLICATIONS
Masters Thesis
Estimation methods for evaluation of vehicle structural dynamics
Doctoral Dissertation
Distributed Control algorithms for controlling UAV swarms for forest fire tracking
Low-dimensional methods for spatio-temporal estimation of fire growth
Experimental implementation with ground and aerial robotic platforms
Establishment of an experimental facility for multi-agent cooperative control algorithms
Software/Communication layers for communications between robots and remote PC
Professional Career
Data-driven methods for strategic customer segmentation and engagement
Content development for presentations and hands-on workshops at conferences
One-to-one technical engagements to help support innovations in pedagogy
4. BALAJI SHARMA balajirsharma@gmail.com
SKILLS
PROFICIENT INTERMEDIATE BASICS
DATA ANALYSIS, MATH MODELING, DATA VISUALIZATION MATLAB, MS EXCEL SIMULINK TABLEAU
WEB DEVELOPMENT
HTML, CSS,
WORDPRESS, GRAV
TWIG
DATABASES AND CRM TOOLS SIEBEL SALESFORCE SQL
HARDWARE SYSTEMS AND SENSORS
ACCELEROMETERS,
LOAD CELLS
HYDRAULIC ROAD
SIMULATORS
IMU, GPS
LASER RANGEFINDERS,
MOBILE SENSORS
COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS
SERIAL/RS232. TCP/IP,
UDP, MAVLINK
NMEA
5. BALAJI SHARMA balajirsharma@gmail.com
IN A LIGHTER VEIN
I once took the train(s) across the US, coast to coast, to see how far I
could cover the US without stepping into an airplane or a car.
The journey was great, and after a week on wheels, even the frozen
burgers on the trains started tasting good.
The coffee, sadly, didn’t.
My research lab at grad school was three levels below surface. The
‘dungeon’, as we fondly called it, sheltered us from the worst of winters
and the best of summers, and all of humanity’s social distractions.
I would have graduated sooner if I weren’t too busy paying my Dews.