Davis Square LLM Meetup

​Speakers

​Amit Seker - Research Engineer, Babel Street - Amit has been working in natural language processing and AI for over 20 years with a particular focus on morphologically rich languages. Currently he is an engineering manager at Babel Street working on machine learning and text analytics and is active in research at the ONLP Lab of Bar-Ilan University. Previously he was co-founder/VP of R&D at Comprendi, a startup that delivers advanced machine learning and NLP-powered ad targeting automation. Amit holds a BS in computer science from UC Santa Barbara and an MS in computer science from The Open University.

​Cyrus Shaoul - Co-founder & CEO, Leela AI - Cyrus is an entrepreneur and computational neuroscientist with expertise in computational cognitive modeling. Cyrus is one of the co-founders and the CEO of Leela AI, which uses a novel kind of visual intelligence to improve productivity and safety in manufacturing. The Leela AI platform has been deployed commercially since 2021, and has been is now in production at multiple Fortune 500 companies. Previously, Cyrus was co-founder and CTO of Digital Garage, which operated a search engine called Infoseek Japan, the dominant search engine in Japan at the beginning of the Internet Age. He was at Digital Garage from a Day 1 through to a successful IPO. He holds a BSc. from MIT and a PhD from the University of Alberta.

​Please join us!

• ​​Who: People who build, develop and apply LLMs or wish to learn more about them

• ​​When: 6:15-8:15pm Thursday, 9/12; doors open at 5:30pm

• ​​Where: BasisTech, 1070 Broadway, Somerville, MA 02144 (directions) is a 10 minute walk from the Davis Sq. T station

• ​​What: Two speakers followed by Q&A. Food and soft drinks will be served.

​Program

• ​​​5:30pm - Doors open, food and drinks served

• ​​​6:15pm - Talk #1 followed by Q&A

• ​​​7:15pm - Talk #2 followed by Q&A

• ​​​8:00pm - Networking with speakers

• ​​​8:15pm - End