Machine Learning & AI Topics
Production machine learning systems, model development, deployment, and operationalization. Covers ML architecture, model training and serving infrastructure, ML platform design, responsible AI practices, and integration of ML capabilities into products. Excludes research-focused ML innovations and academic contributions (see Research & Academic Leadership for publication and research contributions). Emphasizes applied ML engineering at scale and operational considerations for ML systems in production.
LLM Evaluation and Observability
Measuring, monitoring and releasing generative and LLM-powered systems. Covers evaluation of open-ended outputs (human review, calibrated model-graded judges, reference-based and embedding scores, perplexity), hallucination, toxicity, privacy-leak and red-team checks, offline benchmarks versus online monitoring, and production observability (logs, traces, metrics, cost and token attribution, privacy-safe telemetry, drift and quality alerts). Also release decisions: A/B tests, canary rollouts, SLOs and go or no-go gates. Building the grounding architecture itself, calibration of predictive models and general software testing are covered elsewhere.
Model Deployment and Inference Optimization
Serving trained models efficiently in production. Covers deployment and containerization, real-time and batch serving, latency budgets, throughput and cost optimization, quantization and model compression, and online/real-time learning constraints. Emphasizes meeting production performance targets without sacrificing model quality.
MLOps: Monitoring, Retraining, and Lifecycle Management
Operating machine learning systems reliably over time. Covers model and data monitoring, drift and degradation detection, feedback loops, retraining and model-freshness strategy, versioning and model registries, and pipeline and workflow orchestration. Focuses on keeping deployed models healthy and reproducible across their lifecycle.