Special Guest Speaker - PaLM API Demos and Large Language Models by Shilpa Kancharla, SDE @ Google
Learn how to use Google's PaLM APIs for text generation, chat, and embeddings. Through this workshop, users will be able to go through an introduction to each of these APIs and understand what types of machine learning tasks they can be used for. This workshop will also cover an introductory use case for the embeddings and text generation APIs: Document Search with Q & A. Links to code will be provided.
Certification Study Groups are weekly events over 12 weeks designed for people who want to prepare for a Google Cloud certification. Join this Study Group to learn more and prepare for the Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification.
The Certification Study Group offers:
12 live sessions to go through certification content and exam questions.
Online community where you can ask questions and share your knowledge.
Video courses and hands-on training on Cloud Skills Boost, Google Cloud training platform.
Learning Journey - Session 2
Agenda
Speakers
Shilpa Kancharla - Google (Software Engineer)
Shilpa Kancharla is an engineer on the TensorFlow team at Google, based in San Francisco, CA. She works on making TensorFlow, Keras, and other machine learning applications easily accessible and learnable to the developer community. She earned her MS in Computer Science at North Carolina State University and her BS in Applied Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. …
Roya Kandalan - Aware, Inc. (Senior Research Scientist)
Roya is a research scientist who is passionate about advancing artificial intelligence technologies. She is particularly interested in computer vision and pattern recognition and has developed machine learning solutions for various applications, including healthcare, assistive technology, and security.
Roya is also an advocate for women's rights. She is a Google Women's Techmaker Ambassa…
Maddie Shang - OpenMined (Sr. AI Research Engineer)
Maddie is a Sr. ML / Research Engineer in industry, published author and seasoned open-source AI leader, with 6+ years of experience in ML R&D. Her areas of interest include generative models, NLP and Human <> AI interactions. She was also a 2x startup founder, a Blockchain educator/researcher, Founder of Women Who Code - Data Science, and technical advisor to various startups and Di…
Hosted By
Ralph Yozzo, GDG Organizer
Google Developer Organizer since 2009.
Anna Nerezova, GDG Organizer
Anna Nerezova has 15 years of experience in analytics and optimization. She is on the 100 Women in Analytics list by Google Analytics and is a Google Cloud Engineer Scholar. She is passionate about applying the latest technologies to provide solutions and bring growth and better experience for all users. Anna is a Women Techmakers Ambassador in NYC, who volunteers for Positive Planet in the US, a nonprofit helping the underrepresented become entrepreneurs and financially independent.
Madona S. Wambua, Android Engineer III
Madona is a GDE Android and Author, founder of Budgeting Buddy, WTM Ambassador, Women Who Code Mobile Lead, and a developer who enjoys sharing her Android knowledge and teaching women how to make Android applications.
Shivika Arora, GDG Organizer
I am currently responsible for driving modernization, innovation and engineer experience agenda in four strategic tech location for JP Morgan - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Silicon Valley and Seattle. Prior to this role, I was the Product and Solutions Lead for Trusts and Estates under Asset Wealth Management, where I was responsible for executing both brokerage op models as well lending framework for the ultra-high net worth clients.
Outside of work, I am Google’s WomenTechmaker Ambassador for NYC as well as GDG NYC Organizer; Champion Coach for JPM’s Women On The Move Network' and Fast Forward Small Business Mentor.
On a personal front, I love to read, dance to any good music and go on food tours around various cities.
Kirsten Lindsay Bohme, Team Member
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