The Importance of Data Quality in Benefits

In this contributed article, Peter Nagel, VP of Engineering at Noyo, addresses the benefits/insurance industry’s roadblocks and opportunities — and why some of the most interesting data innovations will soon be happening in benefits.

AI Empowers Microfinance: Revolutionizing Fraud Detection

In this sponsored article, Dmitry Dolgorukov, CRO and Co-Founder of HES FinTech, suggesets that to effectively combat fraud, microfinance institutions must establish robust fraud detection systems. Early detection and prevention of fraudulent activities are vital in minimizing financial impact and safeguarding the funds of vulnerable customers. Microfinance institutions face a significant menace in the form of fraudulent activities, endangering their provision of financial services to underserved communities. Fraud not only leads to substantial financial losses but also erodes trust in the system, impeding the mission of microfinance institutions to foster inclusive growth and alleviate poverty.

UVA Researchers Built an AI Algorithm That Understands Physics

Normally, when testing the behavior of materials under high heat or explosive conditions, researchers have to run simulation after simulation, a data-intensive process that can take days even on a supercomputer. However, with a deep learning algorithm created by Stephen Baek, Phong Nguyen and their research team, the process takes less than a second on a laptop. 

Top Data Science Ph.D. Dissertations (2019-2020)

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) recently published in its Notices monthly journal a long list of all the doctoral degrees conferred from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020 for mathematics and statistics. The degrees come from 242 departments in 186 universities in the U.S. I enjoy keeping a pulse on the research realm for my field, so I went through the entire published list and picked out 48 dissertations that have high relevance to data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. The list below is organized alphabetically by state.

Why FinOps Needs DataOps Observability

In this special guest feature, Chris Santiago, Vice President/Solutions Engineering, Unravel Data, talks about controlling cloud spend through three phases of the FinOps lifecycle.

ICLR 2023 Paper Award Winners

The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the many branches of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning—announced 4 award-winning papers, and 5 honorable mention paper winners.

How Machine Learning is Cleaning Up Medical Records

In this contributed article, Dr. Oleg Bess, practicing physician and CEO of 4medica, discusses how machine learning is doing great things in medicine, including improving medical diagnosis and drug manufacturing. It’s also improving healthcare in another way that doesn’t earn headlines but is at the core of care delivery: eliminating duplicate patient records, and providing high-quality data for patients and providers.

Video Higlights: Humanizing Digital Banking with Generative AI

In the video presentation below, our friends over at DeepBrain explore how video synthesis technology can be used to bring a human touch to digital banking.

Reaching Buyers in an Anonymous Buying Journey

In this contributed article, Latané Conant, Chief Market Officer of 6sense, offers her perspective on how enterprise sales/marketing teams can still identify leads generate revenue, even with ever-changing privacy rules/regulations. This provides some good insights on how to overcome those challenges by using valuable data.

Scale to Survive: How to Attract Investors in a Post-SVB World

In this contributed article, Eric Kavanagh is CEO of The Bloor Group, focuses on a recent conversation between a pair of tech executives: Software AG CEO Sanjay Brahmawar and former IBM president and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. The two leaders talked about innovations and investing in challenging financial times, a topic made even more relevant in the wake of the SVB news.