Getting into AI
Alex Antic: What inspired you to become a leader in the field of data science and AI? Were there any particular people that were your inspiration? Was it a passion for maths, stats, and problem-solving that you had when you were young? What keeps you excited and fascinated to stay in the field?
Angshuman Ghosh: This is one question I get a lot, and it’s a very good question.
Honestly, for me, it was not planned. When I learned some of the basics of the field, data science did not exist. There were maybe some of the fundamental disciplines. I think you also did your PhD a while back, in 2002. At that time, you maybe learned math, stats, programming, and more, but nobody called it data science. It was not as sexy as it is today, but the foundational disciplines were all there.
In these foundational disciplines, there are three core pillars that are essential to data science. One of them you already mentioned – mathematics and statistics. The second...