In this week's episode, Stephen Welch joined me to discuss 10 big global problems worth trying to solve with data science and machine learning. Perhaps you'll be inspired to tackle one or two yourself!
2020 presented a lot of challenges to a lot of folks around the world. For Stephen, the challenging year was compounded by intense delivery targets for him and his team on a machine vision-enabled system that automatically detects defective industrial products. After delivering this fascinating edge-deployed software into production, Stephen was able to finally come up for air and he reflected on what's most important in one's life — culminating in his list of 10 global problems worth solving.
Stephen is VP of Data Science at Mariner, where he leads a team developing deep learning-based solutions to manufacturing problems. Prior to working with Mariner, Stephen was VP of Machine Learning at Autonomous Fusion, a firm specialized in self-driving cars. He’s also an adjunct professor at University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the creator of the gorgeous math-focused YouTube channel WelchLabs, which has over 200k subscribers and 10M views.
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