Best Machine Learning Research of 2019

The field of machine learning has continued to accelerate through 2019, moving at light speed with compelling new results coming out of academia and the research arms of large tech firms like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and many more. It's a daunting task for the down-in-the-trenches data scientist to keep pace. I advise my data science students at UCLA to be up on the latest research results in order to keep ahead of the pack. I recount how industry luminary Andrew Ng keeps his head above water by toting around a file of research papers (so when he has a free moment, like riding on an Uber, he can consume part of a paper). It does take time to add the research realm to your everyday duties, but I think it's fun to know what technologies are fertile areas of research.