Dec 10 - AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup

Join our virtual meetup to hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics across AI, ML, and computer vision.

Date, Time and Location

Dec 10, 2026
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST
Online. Register for the Zoom!

Your mAP is fine. Your slices are not. Finding the images that actually matter

A single mAP can look acceptable while one slice is unusable, small objects, occlusion, or a confused class. I will run a pretrained detector on a few hundred public images (COCO-style, not a production crawl), report the headline metric, then break the same run by slice and walk through the worst samples.

The claim is modest: you do not need a million images or a trained-from-scratch model to see what the mean is hiding, and you cannot relabel everything, so the next labeling budget should follow those slices. No employer data and no confidential dashboards.

About the Speaker

Amandeep Jiddewar is a Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, with prior work in U.S. manufacturing analytics (CertainTeed / Saint-Gobain) and marketplace allocation (QuinStreet). Emory Goizueta MSBA (2019), Kaggle Expert. This talk is in his personal capacity and does not represent his current or prior employers.

Production AI Agents: Tool Use, Evaluation, Guardrails and Observability

Building an AI agent is easy. Knowing whether it is behaving reliably in production is much harder. This session explores how to evaluate agents that use tools and external systems, including tool-call validation, tracing, observability, failure analysis, guardrails, permissions, and human review.

Attendees will learn practical patterns for understanding not just what an agent answered, but why it acted and whether the action was safe.

About the Speaker

Akshay Talathi is a Vice President at Goldman Sachs with over 10 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native, and distributed systems across financial services and technology. His current focus is GenAI and agentic AI, including production AI agents, MCP, enterprise integrations, guardrails, observability, and reliable AI-driven workflows.

From Virtual Worlds to Physical AI: Building Simulation Pipelines That Survive the Real World

Robots are moving beyond perception systems that only detect and classify objects toward systems that must understand a scene, learn behaviors, and act in the physical world. In this talk, I’ll show a practical Physical AI workflow using OpenUSD, BowerBot, NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab to build a robot’s virtual world, including its body, cameras, sensors, and environment.

We’ll explore how demonstrations and reinforcement learning can teach behaviors in simulation, how vision and sensor data become observations for a robot policy, and what needs to match when transferring that behavior to real hardware. The demo follows a small robot from a simulated environment toward a real-world task, exposing both the power and the limitations of sim-to-real.

The goal is to make the path from pixels to actions concrete for computer vision and machine learning practitioners.

About the Speaker

Arturo Morales Rangel is the founder of Binary Core LLC, a Physical AI engineering company working across simulation, perception, robot learning, and deployment.