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Panel Discussion with Aldo Carrascoso: Latest Innovations in Artificial Intelligence

“Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines. In computer science, an ideal “intelligent” machine is a flexible rational agent that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal.[1] Colloquially, the term “artificial intelligence” is applied when a machine mimics “cognitive” functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as “learning” and “problem solving”. — Wikipedia

Our distinguished panel will discuss the latest developments in AI (artificial intelligence).

Aldo Carrascoso is the Co-Founder and CEO of GlycoProX Biosciences (GPX). GPX combines next generation glycomics (carbohydrates), instrumentation (LC/MS) and deep machine learning to augment cancer diagnosis, biomarker and target discovery for the development of more efficacious therapeutics. He is also the Founder and COO/CTO of San Francisco based, Veem (formerly know as Align Commerce and the world’s largest cross border payment processor on the blockchain). Veem uses the blockchain to replace the outdated SWIFT system and it is changing the way global payments are sent and received across the world, making the process much simpler, faster, more transparent and secure. Prior to founding GPX and Veem, Aldo was the Founder and Founding CTO of Jukin Technologies / Jukin Media – one of the world’s largest User Generated Content (UGC) licensing platforms. Aldo has been featured on CNN, Bloomberg, ANC and The Cube for his “zero to one” work on healthcare, global finance and digital media, collectively, his ventures have created ~$500M in value for investors. Aldo has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Babson and and is a graduate of the Ateneo De Manila University.

Nisha Talagala is CTO/VP Engineering at Parallel Machines, where she focuses on production Machine Learning / Deep Learning solutions spanning Edge to Cloud. Prior to Parallel Machines, Nisha was a Fellow at SanDisk and Fellow/Lead Architect at Fusion-io, where she drove innovation in non-volatile memory, including the industry’s first persistent memory solution. Nisha has more than 15 years of expertise in software development, distributed systems, I/O solutions, persistent memory, and flash. She was technology lead for server flash at Intel – where she led server platform non-volatile memory technology development, storage-memory convergence, and technical partner engagements. Prior to Intel, Nisha was the CTO of Gear6, where she designed and built clustered computing caches for high performance I/O environments. Nisha earned her PhD at UC Berkeley with research on software clustering and distributed storage. Nisha holds 48 patents in distributed systems, networking, storage, performance and non-volatile memory. Nisha has authored many technical/research publications and serves on multiple academic and industry conference program committees.

Kanu Gulati is a Principal at Khosla Ventures, focused on investments in data and ML-enabled enterprise applications. Kanu has over 10 years of operating experience as an engineer, scientist, and strategist. She owned Intel’s multicore CAD algorithms research road map, developed advanced parallel CAD solutions, and pioneered metrics-driven methodology improvements for design flows. Kanu has led early-stage investments in high performance computing (HPC), distributed systems and ML-enabled systems at Intel Capital and Zetta Venture Partners. Kanu was Employee #2 at MapD (hardware-accelerated data visualization) and has also held engineering roles at Nascentric (fast-circuit simulation tool, acquired by Cadence) and Atrenta (predictive analytics for design verification and optimization, acquired by Synopsys), among other startups.

Kanu has coauthored 3 books, a book chapter, 35+ peer-reviewed publications with 450+ citations, and 1 US patent on HPC and hardware acceleration. She has a PhD and master’s degree from Texas A&M University and an undergraduate degree from Delhi College of Engineering. Kanu completed her MBA at Harvard Business School, where she was co-president of the annual Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference.