Today's guest is the extraordinarily intelligent and well-spoken UC San Diego theoretical neuroscience professor, Bradley Voytek. He reveals how AI/ML is accelerating our understanding of the brain.
More on Brad:
• Professor in UC San Diego's Department of Cognitive Science, Data Science Institute, and the Neurosciences Graduate Program.
• Joined Uber as their first data scientist, when it was a 10-person startup, helping build their data science strategy and team.
• Outreach work has appeared in Scientific American, NPR... and Comic-Con!
• Co-authored the amusing book "Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?"
Today’s episode has some brief exchanges that will appeal most to hands-on practitioners, but should overall be fascinating to anyone.
In today’s episode, Brad details:
• How large-scale data science and machine learning are accelerating neuroscience research.
• Discoveries his lab has recently made that overturn nearly a century of neuroscience doctrine.
• Insights on structuring data science education to balance technical skills with creative, practical problem-solving.
• Lessons from using data science to optimize Uber's early ride-prediction algorithms.
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