Raghav Ram: 40 LLMs, One Answer

Jim Griffin24/11/2025

In this episode of the AI Master Group Podcast, Raghav Ram, PhD, describes an orchestration layer that gives enterprises simultaneous access 40 or more LLMs. Instead of relying on a single language model, the platform evaluates every user query in real time, selects the most capable 4-5 models for that

Michael Koved: The Economics of Generative AI

Jim Griffin10/06/2025

Michael holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a Senior Fellow at Wharton (Artificial Intelligence and Analysis for Business). He’s also the president of Advanced Analytics, which is a consultancy that he founded. In this episode, Michael describes various risks and opportunities associated with the

Nachiket Mehta: Inside the Data Mesh at Wayfair

Jim Griffin31/05/2025

Nachiket is the Global Head, Data & Analytics Engineering at Wayfair. In that role, he spearheaded the company’s global implementation of data mesh. In this episode, Nachiket describes the four pillars of data mesh, and in doing so, he shares a rare front-line view of client-side operations involving data governance,

Zach Elewitz: The Leak Stops Here

Jim Griffin24/05/2025

Zach is the Senior Director, Head of AI, Data Science and Analytics at Fortune Brands, a portfolio of brands that includes names like Yale, Master Lock, SentrySafe, Moen faucets, House of Rohl and Therma‑Tru, among others. In this episode, Zach describes his journey from a PhD in Mathematics with an

Pavel Iakubovskii: Kaggle Master at Hugging Face

Jim Griffin09/02/2025

Pavel holds two gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze on Kaggle. He’s also the author of several well-known libraries, including one that has about 20,000 stars on GitHub. Currently, he’s a member of the open source engineering team at Hugging Face. This episode covers Pavel’s journey from growing

Max Mozgovoy: the End of Traditional UX Research?

Jim Griffin25/01/2025

This episode features a conversation with Max Mozgovoy, co-founder of VoxDiscover, which plans to use Gen AI to interview customers for user experience (UX) research done by app developers, or for customer lifecycle research, to build customer journey maps or personas, or to identify which features to add or change

Marwa Kechaou: A Keen Eye for Computer Vision

Jim Griffin19/01/2025

With a PhD in machine learning and a specialization in computer vision, Marwa has done deep learning projects across several industries and is currently at Alohi, a Switzerland-based startup with 4 million users of document solutions like Sign.Plus, Fax.Plus and Scan.Plus. In this episode, she describes her journey from formal

Iqbal Hossain: The UofAZ Knowledge Map Story

Jim Griffin19/12/2024

Iqbal holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, with a specialization in computer algorithms and graph theory. He is currently the Research Data Science Director at the University of Arizona. Aside from his innovative achievement in creating a knowledge map for the university (kmap.arizona.edu), he has one of the

Jeffrey Spyropoulos: Making Analytics Count at JCP

Jim Griffin08/12/2024

Jeffrey is one of those rare people who knew exactly what he wanted to do from an early age: Use mathematics to solve business problems. After earning his Masters Degree in Statistics from the University of Chicago, he went on to do high-impact analytics work in banking, retail and telco.