Kirk Borne, Ph.D.

https://www.dataleadershipgroup.ai/

My services include: 
(1) Speaking at conferences, webinars, events.
(2) Teaching and Training Courses.
(3) Strategy Consulting.
(4) Social Promotions & Engagement for Brands.
(5) Career advising & mentoring.
(6) Content creation (blogs, book chapters, white papers).
(7) Expert Witness.

My areas of expertise include those listed here:
#AI #DataScience #BigData #MachineLearning #DigitalTransformation #IoT #IIoT #AIstrategy #AnalyticsStrategy #DataStrategy #DataLiteracy #DataStorytelling #Analytics
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Founder, Data Leadership Group (Data Scientist. Top Influencer. Speaker. Trainer. Consultant)

DataPrime, Inc.

As DataPrime’s inaugural Chief Science Officer and now a member of the DataPrime Advisory Board, I advise on activities and projects related to:
—Building the Data Science Profession for data pros.
—Expanding Data Literacy and Data Fluency across enterprises.
—Accelerating value creation and innovation from data in data-drenched organizations.

Advisory Board Member

Booz Allen Hamilton

I get great pleasure in finding solutions through data. The scientist in me loves to explore data (evidence), find new discoveries, develop a hypothesis to explain it, and then test those theories. As the Principal Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, I am privileged to exercise that Data Scientist role across numerous internal and external projects: human resources, organizational change, training and mentoring, marketing, customer engagement, behavior analytics, risk mitigation, novelty discovery (including fraud detection, anomaly detection, surprise discovery), thought leadership, socialization of data science across organizations and industries, data technologies (including machine learning, data management innovations, graph analytics), predictive and prescriptive analytics, geospatial-temporal modeling, and much more. I engage with clients within the federal sector, within numerous commercial industries, and with nonprofit organizations. And I enjoy mentoring, working with, and learning from some of the best and brightest young data scientists in the business.

Read more here: "A Growth Hacker's Journey - my mini-history of Data Science"
https://www.mapr.com/blog/growth-hackers-journey-right-place-right-time

Principal Data Scientist and Executive Advisor, First Data Science Fellow at Booz Allen

SYNTASA™

Kirk Borne is the first member of SYNTASA’s Advisory Board. Dr. Borne’s extensive experience in big data and data science, including expertise in scientific data mining and data systems, will help guide SYNTASA in providing focused Marketing Analytic solutions. SYNTASA will leverage the Advisory Board to grow expertise in marketing analytics, data science, predictive modeling, and management of big data sets. The Board will help steer the company on its path in creating big data analytic solutions using open source technology.
http://syntasa.com/president-and-ceo-jay-marwaha-appoints-kirk-d-borne-ph-d-as-first-syntasa-advisory-board-member/

Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics International Organizations

Contributing to the international and national efforts to promote astrostatistics and astroinformatics as robust research disciplines: organizing international research conferences on astrostatistics and astroinformatics, and contributed to the creation of three new international and national organizations:

(1) Vice President, International Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics (IAA) professional society.

(2) Senior Steering Committee member, AAS (American Astronomical Society) Working Group on Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics.

(3) Organizing Committee member, IAU (International Astronomical Union) Working Group in Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics.

In addition... (for 2014-2015):

(4) Secretary, SIAM SIAG/DMA (SIAM Activity Group on Data Mining & Analytics).

Executive Committee Member

ARIES Scientific

ARIES Scientific Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, dedicated to the advancement of Science Research and STEM Education.

Kirk Borne has advised and consulted with numerous organizations in data science areas, including machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), data strategy, data mining, and large-scale data management.

Vice President / Astronomer / Data Scientist

George Mason University

Conduct Research, Teach Courses, Advise Students (undergraduate, graduate) in these areas:  Astroinformatics, Data Science, Computational Astrophysics, Astronomy, Computational Science, Data Mining, Informatics, Scientific Databases.

Co-creator of Data Science BS degree program.

For over 30 years, Kirk Borne has studied the dynamics and evolution of galaxies within the context of colliding and merging galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies, starbursting galaxies, active galaxies, and the mass assembly history of large and small scale structure in the Universe.  

Since 2000, he has developed & applied data mining & data science techniques on large astronomy data collections & sky survey databases, earth science remote sensing data collections, and more.  He is investigating new and existing algorithms for the discovery of patterns, correlations, associations, and outliers (surprises) within highly dimensional astrophysical parameter spaces.  These techniques are being used in several research areas, including: galaxy scaling relations, parameterization of the dynamics and evolution of galaxies and groups of galaxies, characterization and classification of time-varying astronomical events and targets of opportunity, and novelty detection within massive datasets. As part of this research, he is working with citizen science results from the Galaxy Zoo and Galaxy Merger Zoo projects.  

He is investigating research connections with other data-intensive disciplines, to explore opportunities for advancing research in a broad context, through the investigation and application of data science methods (informatics and statistics) in a manner that transcends discipline boundaries.

He is one of the originators of the field of Astroinformatics, which is data science for astronomy research and education.  

He is working with education researchers to develop new pedagogies for science learning that engage students through active experiences using Big Data in the classroom.

Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science

Soft10 Inc.

Advisory Board member of Soft10 Inc., which brings fast Automatic Predictive Modeling Technology to any business that needs to build, validate, and refine multiple models from their data : http://soft10ware.com/about-us/our-team/

LSST Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics Research Collaboration Team

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is planned to generate a 20-petabyte science database and a 100-petabyte astronomical image archive -- the analysis of such an enormous data collection requires novel research methods and algorithms.  Our collaboration team consists of astronomers, computer scientists, data mining experts, and statisticians --- we are working on solutions to the LSST petascale data challenges.

I was co-creator of the field of Astroinformatics, which is Data Science for Big Data Astronomy:
1) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12145-010-0055-2
2) http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3069
3) http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3892

I also contributed to the revolution in scientific data mining and data science education, not only in Astronomy:
4) http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-94-007-5618-2_9
5) http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0505

Chairman

LSST Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Advising the LSST project team regarding the education and public outreach programs, activities, goals, data products, data system design, interfaces, and learning objectives that will support the mission of the LSST and that will be based on the massive petascale scientific database and astronomical imaging data collection that LSST will produce.

Outreach Advisory Board

Worldwide top influencer since 2013. Data Scientist. Global Speaker. Consultant. Astrophysicist. Space Scientist.
Big Data & Data Science advisor, TedX speaker, researcher, blogger, Data Literacy advocate.
Social Reporter for your Data Event...
Speaker Requests for me to speak at your event/organization?...
...Please go here: https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/kirk-borne/
...or go here: https://www.bigspeak.com/speakers/kirk-borne/
2018-21: #1 Digital (Data Science, Big Data, AI) worldwide top influencer:
... http://ipfconline.fr/blog/2020/11/14/50-top-digital-influencers-to-follow-at-the-end-of-2020-and-in-2021/
2013-present: #1 or #2 or Top 10 influencer in many different categories and lists, including Big Data, Data Science, AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Data Mining, Digital Marketing, Tech Consulting, Data Security, Data Topics Blogging, and more.
2020: Elected Fellow of the American Astronomical Society for lifetime contributions to astronomy and the public's understanding of the Universe.

Data Scientist -- Transdisciplinary data science research, applications, and consulting across a variety of fields -- transcending traditional discipline boundaries.

Specialties: Public / Inspirational / Technical Keynote Speaking. Consulting / Adivising in many disciplines, including Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Data Analytics, Big Data, X-Informatics (Discovery Informatics, Science Informatics, and more), Scientific databases, Scientific data mining, Computational-X (Computational Science, and more), Astroinformatics** (Data Science for Astronomy), Observational Astronomy (ground-based and space-based), Computational Astrophysics, Higher Education, Science Education and Public Outreach, Project Management, Proposal-writing.

**co-creator of the field of Astroinformatics: see http://www.springerlink.com/content/007642412771162j/ and http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3892

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LinkedIn Top Voice, Thinkers360 Top 25 Overall Thought Leader, Founder of Data Leadership Group (Data Scientist. Top Influencer. Speaker. Trainer. Consultant. Astrophysicist). Advisor to PrimeAI and other AI startups.

Vincent Granville

BondingAI

GenAI platform based on xLLM, the game-changing technology that started the LLM 2.0 revolution. Boosting productivity, automating tasks, delivering ROI at scale to Enterprise customers. Without GPU, hallucinations, security issues, or latency. With zero weight, real-time fine tuning, exhaustive but concise results, customizable relevancy scores, and a modern UI - not just a prompt box.

Chief AI Architect, Co-Founder & Investor

NVIDIA

Advocate for products and services pertaining to AI, generative AI and LLMs. Featuring curated Nvidia content in my GenAI newsletter (200k subscribers) and other media, presenting at selected Nvidia events. Deep understanding of the AI landscape and technology, building ground-breaking architecture known as LLM 2.0 / xLLM, with our startup BondingAI.io participating in the Nvidia Inception program.

AI Advocate & Startup Inception Program

GenAItechLab.com

Now part of BondingAI.io. Building better, faster, and less expensive GenAI products with explainable AI, such as NoGAN (data synthesizer). Key product:  xLLM, a fast in-memory agentic multi-LLM system built from scratch, with zero weight, no training, no latency, no hallucination, fully contextual from the ground up, with real-time fine-tuning. For scientific or enterprise search, as well as clustering and predictions.  Also, builder of the best model evaluation metric on the market.

Founder, Lead AI Architect

AB InBev

Helping Fortune 100 company InBev implement my xLLM technology as an alternative to OpenAI and LangChain to boost relevancy (hallucination-free), reduce latency, and increase speed by several orders of magnitude, while increasing security via sub-LLMs accessible to authorized users only. Offering a better solution for search and cataloging, to help users navigate their corporate repository. With a focus on concise but exhaustive results (via augmentation) and specialized sub-LLMs. Local implementation without external API calls.

GenAI & LLM Consultant

MLtechniques.com

AI optimization research lab, developing state-of-the-art technology with a focus on high quality and fast algorithms, thus cost effective. Our GenAI Web APIs are accessible on GenAItechLab.com. Covering synthetic tabular data, artificial DNA sequences, time series & geospatial data generation, agent-based modeling, synthetic graphs, and customized LLMs.

Chief AI Scientist

Data Science Central

The company was acquired in 2020.  I am still a contributing author.

Executive Data Scientist, Co-Founder, Managing Partner

Microsoft

Developed a strategy to collect the right data and detect minuscule change points in time series associated with KPI's (when the changes occur, their amplitudes and directions). Goal: assessing the impact of events influencing core metrics. Example: changing the definition of a website user resulting in shift in user count, or changing some features on Bing.com resulting in increase / decrease in pageviews. These were blind tests: I did not know when the website changes were made. But when I detected a change, it was matched against known events that took place at the time flagged by my algorithm as "change point". I designed and then helped automate this algorithm.

Machine Learning Consultant

LookSmart

Optimizing advertising campaigns, Ad arbitrage. Projects and technology include:

• Created list of top commercial keywords accounting for 85% of all pay-per-click revenue
• Leveraged Google API's to automatically find millions of high yield keywords 
• Automated taxonomy creation (NLP)  
• Click fraud detection (click jacking and Botnet detection)
• Internet traffic quality scoring using hidden decision trees 
• Automation of keyword bidding 
• Reverse engineering Google keyword pricing algorithms, for ad arbitrage

Chief Scientist

eBay

Keyword pricing optimization. Improving keyword bid pricing algorithm to update bids on millions of keywords purchased on Google AdWords. Automated daily updates. Setting bids for large tail of keywords with no conversion history, based on aggregation methods (NLP). Detection of new keywords.

Data Science Consultant

Adometry (acquired by Google)

Built scoring system to measure traffic quality associated to keywords and publishers, for keyword ad networks, search engines, or advertisers (the customers). Scores were used for fraud detection, removal of bad publishers and keyword pricing. Detected major Botnets. Developed proofs of concept, attracting Looksmart and eBay as customers.

Chief AI Scientist, GenAItechLab.com

Full-stack entrepreneur with multimillion-dollar exit. Co-Founder at BondingAI.io. Author (Wiley, Elsevier). Creator of open-source Python libraries / Web APIs such as xLLM and GenAI-Evaluation. Builder of high performance in-memory agentic multi-LLMs for professional users and enterprise, with real-time finetuning, self-tuning, no weight, no training, no latency, no hallucinations, no GPU. Made from scratch, leading to replicable results, leveraging explainable AI, adopted by Fortune 100. With a focus on delivering concise, exhaustive, relevant, and in-depth search results, references, and links. 

Vincent is a leading expert, mathematician, patent owner, former post-doc at Cambridge University, former VC-funded executive, with 20+ years of corporate experience including CNET, NBC, Visa, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, eBay.  Vincent also founded and co-founded a few startups, including one with a successful exit (Data Science Central acquired by Tech Target). He is also a top influencer for brands such as Nvidia, SingleStore, and The Linux Foundation.

Privately funded GenAI and ML Optimization research lab, creating and disseminating open source intellectual property. Developing explainable and generative AI, synthetic data, computer vision, NLP and generic ML technologies. Check out our certifications, Python libraries, eBooks, articles, courses and podcasts, including our best seller "Synthetic Data and Generative  AI" (Elsevier). Visit our company website at MLtechniques.com.

Some LLMs don't have parameters in the classical sense. Our parameters are not billions of DNN weights, but instead dozens of core intuitive parameters attached to the various components. It makes fine-tuning different, easier, and faster. See https://lnkd.in/g6KPESC6

Chief AI Architect, Investor & Co-Founder

The best fine-tuning guide you'll find on arXiv this year.

Covers:
> NLP basics
> PEFT/LoRA/QLoRA techniques
> Mixture of Experts
> Seven-stage fine-tuning pipeline 
▸ 5-min daily newsletter for developers to keep up with AI: https://lnkd.in/gUB_3cWq 

▸ Source: https://t.co/x0ihiqfPFD

Processing LLMs/RAG Prompts 100x Faster with Optimized JSON https://lnkd.in/gX3AWmGi

JSON is great to handle input sources (Enterprise corpuses) used in LLMs and RAG. While well structured, it can be slow. You probably heard about TOON as an alternative, or my nested hashes that work much faster with JSON-like input optimized for speed, without vector database. In my case the architecture is Python-native, ideal for sparse tables such as token correlation tables, and similar to a light version of Berkeley DB. Yet cost-efficient without deep nesting that slows down processing. 

In this live session, you will see real use cases based on similar technology in production environment. This is not about my xLLM technology, but instead a different framework also adopted by companies small and large..

➡️ Presentation Overview

Modern applications rely heavily on semi-structured JSON data, but querying large JSON arrays can quickly become a performance bottleneck. In this session, Spandana will walk through how SingleStore’s new multi-value hash indexes make it possible to query JSON arrays with lightning-fast lookups. She’ll cover how this indexing innovation works under the hood, show real-world performance benchmarks, and demonstrate how developers can apply it to speed up analytical and operational workloads without restructuring data.

➡️ What You’ll Learn:

• How multi-value hash indexes improve query performance on JSON data
• Best practices for indexing nested and array fields
• A live demo of real-world JSON queries running 100x faster

Recording will be available to participants who are unable to attend the live event. 

➡️ Register at https://lnkd.in/gX3AWmGi

#JSON #LLMs #RAG

Wait till I publish my new technique predicting response with 95% R-squared on tabular data with 10k data points, each with 1000 features. Not a DNN, nothing to do with trees either, or with any kind of regression for that matter. 

You won't see it in any journal or conference as I publish on my blog only, at https://lnkd.in/gQ7_A9tx. Probably in a week or two. It's been fully tested at this point.

PhD in AI, author of 📖 The Hundred-Page Language Models Book and 📖 The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book

This paper really is groundbreaking. It solves a long-standing embarrassment in machine learning: despite all the hype around deep learning, traditional tree-based methods (XGBoost, CatBoost, random forests, etc) have dominated tabular data—the most common data format in real-world applications—for two decades. Deep learning conquered images, text, and games, but spreadsheets remained stubbornly resistant.

This paper's (published in Nature by the way) main contribution is a foundation model that finally beats tree-based methods convincingly on small-to-medium datasets, and does so very fast. TabPFN in 2.8 seconds outperforms CatBoost tuned for 4 hours—a 5,000× speedup. That's not incremental; it's a different regime entirely.

The training approach is also fundamentally different. GPT trains on internet text; CLIP trains on image-caption pairs. TabPFN trains on entirely synthetic data—over 100 million artificial datasets generated from causal graphs.

TabPFN generates training data by randomly constructing directed acyclic graphs where each edge applies a random transformation (using neural networks, decision trees, discretization, or noise), then pushes random noise through the root nodes and lets it propagate through the graph—the intermediate values at various nodes become features, one becomes the target, and post-processing adds realistic messiness like missing values and outliers. By training on millions of these synthetic datasets with very different structures, the model learns general prediction strategies without ever seeing real data.

The inference mechanism is also unusual. Rather than finetuning or prompting, TabPFN performs both "training" and prediction in a single forward pass. You feed it your labeled training data and unlabeled test points together, and it outputs predictions immediately. There's no gradient descent at inference time—the model has learned how to learn from examples during pretraining.

The architecture respects tabular structure with two-way attention (across features within a row, then across samples within a column), unlike standard transformers that treat everything as a flat sequence.

So, the transformer has basically learned to do supervised learning.

Talk to the paper on ChapterPal: https://lnkd.in/e_rdrePu

Download the PDF: https://lnkd.in/ekrDRXZY

Python Code and Material from the Book "Synthetic Data and Generative AI"  -  GitHub Repository

Open article: GitHub - VincentGranville/Main: Main folder. Material related to my books on synthetic data and generative AI. Also contains documents blending components from several folders, or covering topics spanning across multiple folders.. by mltblog.com

GitHub - VincentGranville/Main: Main folder. Material related to my books on synthetic data and generative AI. Also contains documents blending components from several folders, or covering topics spanning across multiple folders..

Wolfram has been doing that for over 20 years. Last time I manually computed an integral manually was over 15 years ago. Same with differential equations and bunch of mechanical, mundane math computations no matter how advanced.

🤖 Generative AI Lead @ AWS ☁️ (150k+) | Startup Advisor | Public Speaker | AI Outsider | Founder Thinkfluencer AI

Holly s****

Do you know how long did it take to me to solve this integral I just wrote in a piece of paper?

2 secs by using this prompt: re-generate the image including the solution of the integral step by step.

I know, you must believed actually I solved the problem by myself but I didn’t… AI did it for me.

Then of course I asked for the detailed explanation with the logic on how to solve it. The goal is not to have the solution but to understand how to do it.

We (humans) usually have very short memory but this would have been crazy only 2 years ago…So for the ones who believe this is just another trend, trust me, this is not.

Imagine how a kid in the middle of Africa, without resources, can learn now mathematics. And take this to every single aspect of our lives.

Love it!!!!

#ai #genai

For the best data synthesizer on the market, check out my own. Free, much faster, much better quality. For tabular synthetic data. It also comes with the best evaluation metric in that context. See https://lnkd.in/gSG3wWKC

👋 Need synthetic data? You’re in luck.

Our team at NVIDIA just open sourced NeMo Data Designer, a general framework for generating high-quality synthetic data from scratch or based on your own seed data.

Data Designer has been my primary focus since my time at Gretel before we joined NVIDIA. I'm beyond thrilled that we are giving this library back to the community – I can't wait to see what you build with it ❤️

Highlights
- 🙌 Truly Open: Apache 2.0 license
- 🎨 UX: Designed to make SDG fun and flexible!
- 🤖 Model Agnostic: BYO model endpoints
- 🎲 Versatile: Multiple generation strategies
- 🔌 Extensible: Customize with plugins  

Get started here
- 📦 Install: pip install data-designer
- 💻 Code: https://lnkd.in/eJdAG7qG
- 📗 Docs: https://lnkd.in/eUAXnjxf

Huge shoutout to our amazing team at NVIDIA! Special thanks to Nabin Mulepati, Michael Knepper, Andre M., Kirit Thadaka, Anastasia Nesterenko, and Eric Tramel for diving deep into the weeds to help make this happen 🙏

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

Happy Building 🚀

#OpenSource #GenerativeAI #SyntheticData #NVIDIA

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