MLconf 2016 New York City - The Machine Learning Conference

As CTO and co-founder, Kaheer Suleman led the creation of Maluuba's Deep-Learning based Natural Language Understanding platform and is the technology visionary behind the algorithms that power voice search across millions of devices. Kaheer's background is in information retrieval and artificial intelligence and he previously worked in the artificial intelligence and information retrieval labs at the University of Waterloo under Information Retrieval experts – Professor Pascal Poupart and Olga Vectomova. Kaheer's expertise in building language understanding and conversational systems has served as guide for Maluuba's research and development team through some of the toughest challenges in machine comprehension and spoken dialogue. Conversational Language Understanding: Recent advances in deep learning have all but solved speech recognition and image processing. The next frontier is natural language.