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Junling Hu is the founder and CEO of Coach.ai, which provides a platform for AI coaches. Prior to founding the company, Junling was the Director of Applied AI at Live Person, where she led a team building conversational AI solutions. Prior to that, she had been an AI leader at Samsung and PayPal. Junling is the author of the book The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence: What You Must Know about AI. Junling received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

I love science and engineering with a passion, it is what I think about and work on purely for the awe and wonder of it. My interest and work focuses on natural language understanding, conversational agents and reinforcement learning. My path to artificial intelligence is non-traditional, prior to my career in machine learning I was a practicing ophthalmologist. Today I am tackling the the continual learning, controlled generation and inverse reinforcement learning problems that could be used to build more human like AI

Jerry is a Microsoft Developer and Evangelist in Colorado. He teaches and trains developers on best practices and techniques, making the most of the Universal Windows Platform.