
The impact of machine learning in healthcare data and can machine learning be overused with Ben Birnbaum, Senior Director of Software Engineering at Flatiron Health
About this episode
Meet: Ben is a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Flatiron Health, where he leads the Machine Learning Team. Prior to Flatiron, he worked at Google on NLP applications for Google Search. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
What you’ll learn:
The impact of machine learning in healthcare data
Solving text classification problems
Can machine learning be overused
If you would like to reach out to Ben about anything discussed on the podcast, please reach out via:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-birnbaum-657a4730/
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