Evolutionary Computing, Statistics vs AI, AI Winters, Future of AI | Babak Hodjat | Stories in AI

Had an amazing conversation conversation with Dr. Babak Hodjat, the CTO of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant. Babak is a deep thinker, researcher and a practical entrepreneur and we discussed evolutionary computing, how to use AI to optimize for multiple outcomes, Data lakes and Lake houses, AI winters and the most important work in Deep Learning today. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

 

Bio:

Babak Hodjat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak_Hodjat) is the CTO for AI at Cognizant where he leads a team of developers and researchers bringing advanced AI solutions to businesses. Babak is the former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Babak was also the founder of the world's first AI-driven hedge-fund, Sentient Investment Management. Babak is a serial entrepreneur, having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist.

Prior to co-founding Sentient, Babak was senior director of engineering at Sybase iAnywhere, where he led mobile solutions engineering. Prior to Sybase, Babak was co-founder, CTO and board member of Dejima Inc. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima’s patented, agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing – the technology behind Apple’s Siri.

Babak has published many papers in the fields of Artificial Life, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and has 31 granted or pending patents to his name. He is an expert in numerous fields of AI, including natural language processing, machine learning, genetic algorithms, distributed AI, and has founded multiple companies in these areas. Babak holds a PhD in Machine Intelligence from Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan.

Reach Babak at https://www.linkedin.com/in/babakhodjat/