Ramesh Subramanian shares an article that questions what follows automated machine learning.  Turns out, quite a lot.  This started with the anxiety shared by some co-workers a while ago that the world will end when robots start making robots. And I just happened to hear about auto-ML, the process of automating machine learning. I started to wonder if data scientists were going the way of the ‘web master’? This was somewhat counter to a recent article I read that Deep…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Christian D Ruf as Independent Consultant. Christian grew up at beautiful Bodensee (Lake Constance) in southern Germany. Being a kid, he wanted to become a customs officer to wave the cars through, but he enrolled in a university program in information systems and gradually shifted focus to business analytics, algorithms, machine learning, and operations research. He visited UT Austin for joint research and obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Munich in 2020. He…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Robert Molnar with Stratolytics. Robert spent 3 years at McKinsey as an analytics specialist and has over 10 years applying Data Science for business acceleration. Throughout his career Robert has consulted over a dozen global companies and had delivered tens of projects applying Machine Learning and other data driven methodologies. With an MSc in Econometrics, Robert brings deep technical understanding to any business problem, bridging the gap between Business, IT and Analytics teams. His skills are…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Abhinav Chandra.  Abhinav is a seasoned Senior Leader with deep expertise in Retail/Consumer and Technology across a wide range of functional areas. Abhinav was an Associate Partner in McKinsey’s Retail and Operations practices where he served multiple clients on topics including omni-channel supply chain strategy, marketing and growth strategy, store operations and private label design and sourcing to name a few. Post McKinsey, Abhinav was at Amazon, where he was Head of Customer Experience, Worldwide…