Domain Knowledge in Machine Learning Models for Sustainability with Stefano Ermon

My guest this week is Stefano Ermon, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and Fellow at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment. Stefano and I met at the Re-Work Deep Learning Summit earlier this year, where he gave a presentation on Machine Learning for Sustainability. Stefano and I spoke about a wide range of topics, including the relationship between fundamental and applied machine learning research, incorporating domain knowledge in machine learning models, dimensionality reduction, semi-supervised learning, proxy & transfer learning, and his interest in applying ML & AI to addressing sustainability issues such as poverty, food security and the environment.