[27th June, 14:00] Bradford Cross: Machine Learning Startups
Place: TH:A-1455
Brandford will tell us something about his experience (not only) with machine learning startups.
Bradford is a founding partner at DCVC, the world's leading machine learning and big data venture capital fund, where he starts and invests in machine learning ventures. His current focus is fintech and applications of computational bio, and machine vision.
He has founded two machine learning startups since 2009. At Prismatic, he and his team used Machine learning for personalized ranking based on social and content interaction, and Natural Language Processing for topic and entity classification. At Flightcaster, they used machine learning for predicting the state of the real time global air traffic network using FAA, carrier, and weather data.
He has been a hedge fund investor since 2002, starting with statistical value and momentum strategies at O’Higgins Asset Management, and a venture investor since 2010 as a founding partner of Data Collective.
He has spent 7 years building statistical trading strategies, 6 years building machine learning startups, and 8 years on systems engineering including 2 years working on distributed systems at Google. He studied Computer Engineering and Finance at Virginia Tech, and Mathematics at Berkeley.