Machine Learning Education at Uber // Melissa Barr & Michael Mui // MLOps Podcast #154

MLOps Coffee Sessions #154 with Melissa Barr & Michael Mui, Machine Learning Education at Uber co-hosted by Lina Weichbrodt. // Abstract Melissa and Michael discuss the education program they developed for Uber's machine learning platform service, Michelangelo, during a guest appearance on a podcast. The program teaches employees how to use machine learning both in general and specifically for Uber. The platform team can obtain valuable feedback from users and use it to enhance the platform. The course was designed using engineering principles, making it applicable to other products as well. // Bio Melissa Barr Melissa is a Technical Program Manager for ML & AI at Uber. She is based in New York City. She drives projects across Uber’s ML platform, delivery, and personalization teams. She also built out the first version of the ML Education Program in 2021. Michael Mui Melissa is a Staff Technical Lead Manager on Uber AI's Machine Learning Platform team. He leads the Distributed ML Training team which focuses on building elastic, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed machine learning libraries and systems used to power machine learning development productivity across Uber. He also co-leads Uber’s internal ML Education initiatives. Outside of Uber, Michael also teaches ML at the Parsons School of Design in NYC as an Adjunct Faculty (mostly for the museum passes!) and guest lectures at the University of California, Berkeley. // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // MLOps Swag/Merch https://mlops-community.myshopify.com/ // Related Links https://www.uber.com/blog/ml-education-at-uber-program-design-and-outcomes/https://www.uber.com/blog/ml-education-at-uber/https://www.uber.com/en-PH/blog/ml-education-at-uber/ --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Melissa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissabarr1/ Connect with Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-c-mui/Connect with Lina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lina-weichbrodt-344a066a/

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