Dell EMC Tech Talk: Contextualized AI Models for Multiple Industries, and Building Relationships: Interactions and Graph Networks

As increasingly broader data domains are contextualized to enhance AI models, we find many industries are challenged to handle the sheer scale of this fast-moving technology shift. At Dell Technologies, our purpose is to drive human progress, through greater access to better technology, for people with big ideas around the world. Accomplishing this means we must be practitioners, researchers and leaders in our own right as AI takes a front row seat in everything we do. From manufacturing to predictive maintenance, supply chain optimization to fraud and sales to support we will provide an overview of how Dell Technology Services (DT Services) AI Research team is applying AI to industry wide problems.



Michael will first discuss how CTO classifies projects as AI In, AI On, and AI For Dell and how Services manages and optimizes 65 Million devices with predictive models. Ben will then discuss the contextualization of data, through graph networks, and how graph modeling can enable novel applications, and present new challenges in data mining and scalable machine learning.

SPEAKER BIOS:

With 25 yrs experience, Michael Shepherd is a Distinguished Engineer and recognized technical evangelist who speaks globally on the impact of emerging technologies and AI. He currently serves as the Lead Technologist for the DT Services AI Research team. Michael sits on the Advisory Council for the University of Texas McCombs MSBA program and is on the core team for Xavier Health’s AI Initiative bringing FDA and industry together to advance AI in Healthcare. Michael has been granted thirteen hardware and software patents in eight countries.



Ben Fauber is a senior data scientist at Dell Technologies in Austin, Texas, where he leads university research partnerships for the Applied Data Science Research team in DT Services. He earned his B.Sc. from Colorado State University and Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Dell Technologies, he held various scientific and leadership positions at Stanley Black & Decker, Genentech/Roche, AstraZeneca, and Pfizer. He is a co-inventor and author on more than 70 patents and peer-reviewed publications, including publications in the journals Nature, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He currently serves on advisory boards for The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School and McCombs School of Business.

Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP or email cmathews@csail.mit.edu to confirm attendance.