Speaker: Hamel Husain
Machine Learning Engineer, 20+ Years in Applied AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science
Hamel Husain is a machine learning engineer with over 20 years of experience in applied AI, machine learning, and data science. He has worked at Airbnb and GitHub, including early LLM research used by OpenAI for code understanding, and has led and contributed to popular open-source machine-learning tools. He currently focuses on bringing data science back to AI by helping teams debug, analyze, and measure production systems through evals, teaching, consulting, and writing.
Session
The Revenge of the Data Scientist: Why Reliable AI Needs Evals, Traces, and Metrics
Most teams can now ship an AI prototype by calling a foundation-model API. The hard part is knowing whether that system works when real users, messy data, and business consequences arrive.
