#1 Amazon bestseller · Technology
The AI Transformation
I wrote Chapter 5, "AI: The Reality Beyond the Fantasy", in this multi-author book on thriving through AI's disruption.
Hi, I'm William Brendel
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More about me
I'm an engineering and machine learning executive with a PhD in computer science and AI. Over twenty years I've built and led R&D and platform organisations at Google, Amazon and Snap, shipping machine learning to more than 480 million daily users, and I'm a three-time founder. Most recently I ran engineering for an AI clinical documentation platform, taking it through SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance. I hold 30+ patents and publications with 2,200+ citations, and I co-wrote a chapter of the Amazon bestseller The AI Transformation. My work now is generative AI, LLM orchestration and retrieval-augmented generation — and the engineering leadership it takes to ship them.
In the press
Serendipity and Oregon State led to William Brendel's career in AI
Oregon State University College of Engineering on how my path into AI started.
Interview · RE•WORK · Oct 2018 · 22 min
Inside Snap Research: learning how to learn
At the Deep Learning Summit in Toronto, I talked with RE•WORK about my work at Snap Research: computer vision, NLP, new optimization frameworks, and teaching machines to learn how to learn.
Research
2,200+
citations
30+
patents & publications
PhD
Computer Science & AI
Previously at Google · Amazon · Snap
YMIR: a rapid data-centric development platform for vision applications · arXiv · 2021 Practical privacy-preserving friend recommendations on social networks · WWW · 2018 Improving multi-label emotion classification via sentiment classification · EMNLP · 2018
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