SESSION + Live Q&A
Julia: A Modern Language For Modern ML
Julia is a modern high-performance, dynamic language for technical computing, with many features which make it ideal for machine learning, including just-in-time (JIT) compilation, multiple dispatch, metaprogramming and easy to use parallelism. This talk will demonstrate these features, and showcase a some of the cutting edge machine learning packages that available in the Julia ecosystem, as well as the tools to deploy these models at large scale.
Speaker
Dr. Viral Shah
Co-Founder and CEO of Julia Computing and a Co-Creator of the Julia language
Dr. Viral B. Shah is a Co-founder and CEO of Julia Computing and a co-creator of the Julia language. The Julia user base is now over 200,000 users. Viral has a Ph.D. in computational sciences from UC Santa Barbara, where his thesis was on interactive supercomputing. The technology developed in...
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Dr. Simon Byrne
Quantitative Software Developer @JuliaComputing
Dr Simon Byrne is a quantitative software developer at Julia Computing, where he implements cutting edge numerical routines for statistical and financial models. Simon has a PhD in statistics from the University of Cambridge, and has extensive experience in computational statistics and machine...
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Mountbatten, 6th flr.
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