Bogumił Kamiński is an expert in application of mathematical modeling to solve practical problems in business. In the past, he gathered experience as head of business intelligence and data analytics units in one of the largest Polish consulting and IT solution implementation companies. Since 2016 he moved full-time to academia but still retains strong ties with the industry as a supervisory board member and expert.
His field of expertise is the creation of complex decision-support models that use machine learning, optimization, and simulation methods. On a technical level, he is one of the world-leading experts in the Julia language and has numerous contributions to the core of the language and the package ecosystem. He created the famous dataframes.jl package for data science.
# Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:08 Learning Programming, Communist Poland & First Computer
07:07 Polish Education System & STEM teaching
11:35 Julia’s Conceptualization & Expectations
28:05 PetaFLOP club language, Data Type-based Operations & Julia’s Performance
38:11 Project Celeste, 800M astronomical objects detection, HPC in Julia
59:50 Julia in Academia vs Industry - Speed & Ease of Learning
01:21:21 Customer-facing Apps, Streamline vs Genie
01:38:56 Julia and LLMs, Falcon 40B, Training & Inferencing in Julia
01:45:05 Relearning Julia, How to get Started
01:51:09 From in-memory to cluster processing and MIT partnership
01:59:09 Family, Productivity, Community & Work - Juggling different Balls
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