Lukas Biewald (born 1981 in Massachusetts) is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. Biewald was the co-founder and CEO of Figure Eight Inc. (formerly CrowdFlower) which he co-founded in December 2007 with Chris Van Pelt.[1] In 2019, Biewald sold Figure Eight to Appen for 300 million dollars.[2]
In 2018, Biewald co-founded Weights & Biases, an AI developer platform that creates developer tools for machine learning,[3] with Chris Van Pelt and Shawn Lewis.[4] He is also the host of Gradient Dissent, a machine learning podcast.
As a child, Biewald was a fan of watching PBS science documentaries. He was drawn in and fascinated by the potential of AI and its ability to create and replicate human behavior with technology. In an interview, he noted: "The idea that computers could learn to do things on their own just seemed amazing to me. It always kind of felt like humanity’s last project."[5]
Educationedit
Biewald holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.[6] He was also a research assistant in Daphne Koller's group in the Stanford AI Lab.
Careeredit
Prior to co-founding Figure Eight, Biewald was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft.
From 2005 to 2006, Biewald led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan, where he focused on using statistical machine learning approaches to improve the web search ranking function for international markets.
Awards and honorsedit
Biewald and Van Pelt launched CrowdFlower as a product of Dolores Labs at TechCrunch50[7] in 2009, where the company placed as a finalist.
In 2010, he won the Netexplorateur Prize[8] for creating the GiveWork iPhone app,[9] which allows users to perform small tasks that assist refugees and people in developing countries.
In 2021, Inc. Magazine included Biewald and Van Pelt on its list of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30.[10]
He is the author of several academic papers[12][13][14] on applications of crowdsourcing, as well as a chapter on crowdsourcing gender and age stereotypes[15] in O'Reilly Media's Beautiful Data that he co-authored with Brendan O'Connor.
Publicationsedit
Word-Sense Disambiguation for Machine Translation, by David Vickrey, Lukas Biewald, Marc Teyssier, Daphne Koller. EMNLP, October, 2005
Combining Visualization and Statistical Analysis to Improve Operator Confidence and Efficiency for Failure Detection and Localization by Peter Bodik, Greg Friedman, Lukas Biewald, Helen Levine, George Candea, Kayur Patel, Gilman Tolle, Jon Hui, Armando Fox, Michael I. Jordan, David Patterson. ICAC. June, 2005
Superficial Data Analysis: Exploring Millions of Social Stereotypes by Lukas Biewald, Brendan O’Connor. O’Reilly July, 2009
Media appearancesedit
Biewald appeared in an episode of Hidden in Plain Sight entitled "Deep Learning is Eating the World",[16] where he discussed software evolution and the effect of machine learning on humanity.
Referencesedit
^Barret, Victoria (11 March 2009). "Dolores Labs Vets Web Sites On The Cheap". Forbes. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
^Ha, Anthony. "Appen acquires Figure Eight for up to $300M, bringing two data annotation companies together".
^Ha, Anthony. "Weights & Biases raises $5M to build development tools for machine learning".
^D'Onfro, Jillian (2023-09-21). "How Lukas Biewald grew Weights & Biases from a side project to the AI revolution's must-use service". Insight Partners. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
^D'Onfro, Jillian (2023-09-21). "How Lukas Biewald grew Weights & Biases from a side project to the AI revolution's must-use service". Insight Partners. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
^Biewald, Lukas (2010). "Massive multiplayer human computation for fun, money, and survival". XRDS: Crossroads, the ACM Magazine for Students. 17 (2): 10–15. doi:10.1145/1869086.1869093. S2CID 11144147. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
^(PDF). ACM DEV ’10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
^(PDF). SIGIR ’10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
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Lukas Biewald born 1981 in Massachusetts is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco California Biewald was the co founder and CEO of Figure Eight Inc formerly CrowdFlower which he co founded in December 2007 with Chris Van Pelt 1 In 2019 Biewald sold Figure Eight to Appen for 300 million dollars 2 Lukas BiewaldBiewald speaking at PopTech 2011 Born1981 age 41 42 Alma materStanford UniversityIn 2018 Biewald co founded Weights amp Biases an AI developer platform that creates developer tools for machine learning 3 with Chris Van Pelt and Shawn Lewis 4 He is also the host of Gradient Dissent a machine learning podcast Contents 1 Early Life 2 Education 3 Career 4 Awards and honors 5 Academic life 6 Publications 7 Media appearances 8 ReferencesEarly Life editAs a child Biewald was a fan of watching PBS science documentaries He was drawn in and fascinated by the potential of AI and its ability to create and replicate human behavior with technology In an interview he noted The idea that computers could learn to do things on their own just seemed amazing to me It always kind of felt like humanity s last project 5 Education editBiewald holds a B S in Mathematics and an M S in Computer Science from Stanford University 6 He was also a research assistant in Daphne Koller s group in the Stanford AI Lab Career editPrior to co founding Figure Eight Biewald was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft From 2005 to 2006 Biewald led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo Japan where he focused on using statistical machine learning approaches to improve the web search ranking function for international markets Awards and honors editBiewald and Van Pelt launched CrowdFlower as a product of Dolores Labs at TechCrunch50 7 in 2009 where the company placed as a finalist In 2010 he won the Netexplorateur Prize 8 for creating the GiveWork iPhone app 9 which allows users to perform small tasks that assist refugees and people in developing countries In 2021 Inc Magazine included Biewald and Van Pelt on its list of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 10 Academic life editBiewald holds an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics from Stanford University While pursuing his Master s in Computer Science at Stanford University Biewald won the California Institute of Technology Turing Tournament 11 He is the author of several academic papers 12 13 14 on applications of crowdsourcing as well as a chapter on crowdsourcing gender and age stereotypes 15 in O Reilly Media s Beautiful Data that he co authored with Brendan O Connor Publications editWord Sense Disambiguation for Machine Translation by David Vickrey Lukas Biewald Marc Teyssier Daphne Koller EMNLP October 2005 Combining Visualization and Statistical Analysis to Improve Operator Confidence and Efficiency for Failure Detection and Localization by Peter Bodik Greg Friedman Lukas Biewald Helen Levine George Candea Kayur Patel Gilman Tolle Jon Hui Armando Fox Michael I Jordan David Patterson ICAC June 2005 Superficial Data Analysis Exploring Millions of Social Stereotypes by Lukas Biewald Brendan O Connor O Reilly July 2009Media appearances editBiewald appeared in an episode of Hidden in Plain Sight entitled Deep Learning is Eating the World 16 where he discussed software evolution and the effect of machine learning on humanity References edit Barret Victoria 11 March 2009 Dolores Labs Vets Web Sites On The Cheap Forbes Retrieved 16 April 2011 Ha Anthony Appen acquires Figure Eight for up to 300M bringing two data annotation companies together Ha Anthony Weights amp Biases raises 5M to build development tools for machine learning D Onfro Jillian 2023 09 21 How Lukas Biewald grew Weights amp Biases from a side project to the AI revolution s must use service Insight Partners Retrieved 2023 10 20 D Onfro Jillian 2023 09 21 How Lukas Biewald grew Weights amp Biases from a side project to the AI revolution s must use service Insight Partners Retrieved 2023 10 27 Biewald Lukas October 27 2023 Lukas Biewald LinkedIn Retrieved October 27 2023 The TechCrunch50 Finalists 2009 TechCrunch Retrieved 17 April 2011 Lukas BIEWALD Add value to the world Netexplorateur 4 May 2010 Retrieved 17 April 2011 GiveWork Dolores Labs platform iOS 3 0 version 1 1 iTunes 3 February 2010 Lagorio Christine 19 July 2010 Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt Founders of Crowdflower Inc Magazine Retrieved 17 April 2011 1 Archived November 20 2011 at the Wayback Machine Biewald Lukas 2010 Massive multiplayer human computation for fun money and survival XRDS Crossroads the ACM Magazine for Students 17 2 10 15 doi 10 1145 1869086 1869093 S2CID 11144147 Retrieved 16 April 2011 Scalable crisis relief Crowdsourced SMS translation and categorization with Mission 4636 PDF ACM DEV 10 Archived from the original PDF on 6 February 2011 Retrieved 16 April 2011 Ensuring quality in crowdsourced search relevance evaluation The effects of training question distribution PDF SIGIR 10 Archived from the original PDF on 24 December 2010 Retrieved 16 April 2011 Beautiful Data O Reilly Media 2009 p 384 ISBN 978 0 596 15711 1 Deep Learning is Eating the World Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lukas Biewald amp oldid 1186387816, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
