> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/guest-lectures.md).

# Guest Lectures

- [Xavier Amatriain (Curai)](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/guest-lectures/xavier-amatriain.md): Co-founder and CTO at Curai. Previously: VP of Engineering at Quora, led Algorithms Engineering at Netflix.
- [Chip Huyen (Snorkel)](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/guest-lectures/chip-huyen-nvidia.md): Chip created the TensorFlow for Deep Learning Research course at Stanford University, has worked on production ML teams at Snorkel an Nvidia, and has published many popular resources for ML Engineers.
- [Lukas Biewald (Weights & Biases)](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/guest-lectures/lukas-biewald-weights-and-biases.md): Lukas is co-founder and CEO of Weights & Biases, an ML tooling company. He previously co-founded and led data labeling company Figure Eight (acquired by Appen).
- [Jeremy Howard (Fast.ai)](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/guest-lectures/jeremy-howard-fast.ai.md): Jeremy Howard is the co-founder of fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to making deep learning more accessible. Previously, Jeremy founded a med tech startup Enlitic, and was President of Kaggle.
- [Richard Socher (Salesforce)](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/guest-lectures/richard-socher-salesforce.md): Richard is Chief Scientist at Salesforce, which he joined through acquisition of his startup Metamind. Previously, Richard was a professor in the Stanford CS department.
- [Raquel Urtasun (Uber ATG)](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/guest-lectures/raquel-urtasun-uber-atg.md): Raquel is currently the Chief Scientist and Head of Uber ATG, and also a Professor at University of Toronto
- [Yangqing Jia (Alibaba)](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/guest-lectures/yangqing-jia-alibaba.md): Yangqing is currently the VP AI / Big Data at Alibaba, and was formerly Director of AI Platform at Facebook. He co-created the Caffe2 and Caffe deep learning frameworks.
- [Andrej Karpathy (Tesla)](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/guest-lectures/andrej-karpathy-tesla.md): Andrej is currently Senior Director of AI at Tesla,
 and was formerly a Research Scientist at OpenAI. His educational materials about deep learning remain among the most popular.
- [Jai Ranganathan (KeepTruckin)](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/guest-lectures/jai-ranganathan-keeptruckin.md): Jai is currently SVP Product at KeepTruckin, and was formerly VP of various AI and Data matters at Uber.
- [Franziska Bell (Toyota Research)](https://fall2019.fullstackdeeplearning.com/guest-lectures/franziska-bell-toyota-research.md): Franziska is currently the Senior Director at Toyota Research Institute, Formerly Director of Data Science at Uber


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