Welcome to Impact AI, the podcast for startups who want to create a better future through the use of machine learning.

I’m your host, Heather Couture.

In this podcast, you’ll learn how to build a mission-driven machine learning company.

I’ll be interviewing innovators and entrepreneurs from a variety of industries: healthcare, drug development, environmental, agriculture, and many more.

Each is striving to solve a problem that they are passionate about. They will talk about the role machine learning plays in their technology and the impact of their product.

They will also help me uncover machine learning challenges like data annotation, generalizability, explainability, bias, and collaboration across disciplines – and best practices for tackling them in a startup environment.

Now, who am I?

I’m a consultant with almost 2 decades of experience in computer vision and machine learning for a variety of applications. From manufacturing to planetary science to commercial media to cancer research.

I completed a Masters at Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina. As a researcher, I published in top-tier computer vision and medical imaging venues. Now I write regularly on LinkedIn, for my newsletter Pathology ML Insights, and for a variety of trade publications.

I offer consulting services through my company Pixel Scientia Labs to help startups get to market faster by building more generalizable computer vision models. I make use of the latest machine learning research to amplify their results and support their in-house team for the long term. My mission is to fight cancer and climate change with AI – and I do that by strengthening the machine learning component of my clients’ most impactful projects.

My hope for this podcast is to share machine learning best practices more widely so that many others can benefit as they work towards solving important problems.

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