Jehan Wickramasuriya — AI in High-Stress Scenarios
Jehan Wickramasuriya is the Vice President of AI, Platform & Data Services at Motorola Solutions, a global leader in public safety and enterprise security.In this episode, Jehan discusses how Motorola Solutions uses AI to simplify data streams to help maximize human potential in high-stress situations. He also shares his thoughts on augmenting synthetic data with real data and the challenges posed in partnering with startups.Show notes (transcript and links): http://wandb.me/gd-jehan-wickramasuriya-⏳ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro00:42 How AI fits into the safety/security industry 09:33 Event matching and object detection14:47 Running models on the right hardware17:46 Scaling model evaluation23:58 Monitoring and evaluation challenges26:30 Identifying and sorting issues30:27 Bridging vision and language domains39:25 Challenges and promises of natural language technology41:35 Production environment43:15 Using synthetic data49:59 Working with startups53:55 Multi-task learning, meta-learning, and user experience56:44 Optimization and testing across multiple platforms59:36 Outro-Connect with Jehan and Motorola Solutions:📍 Jehan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jehanw/📍 Jehan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jehan/📍 Motorola Solutions on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MotoSolutions/📍 Careers at Motorola Solutions: https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/about/careers.html-💬 Host: Lukas Biewald📹 Producers: Riley Fields, Cayla Sharp, Angelica Pan, Lavanya Shukla-Subscribe and listen to our podcast today!👉 Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts👉 Google Podcasts: http://wandb.me/google-podcasts👉 Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify