Scale Zeitgeist: AI Readiness Report featuring Scale's, Elliot Branson, Director of Machine Learning and Engineering, and Sasha Harrison, Machine Learning Engineer

Sasha Harrison is a machine learning engineer on the Content Understanding product team, where she works on building deep neural networks to streamline operations powering data annotation pipelines. Previously, she worked as a software engineer on the Nucleus team building a comprehensive dataset management platform to automate the data work. She holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science at Stanford University with a specialization in AI and research interests in algorithmic fairness (particularly in computer vision and speech recognition).

Elliot Branson Is the Director of Machine Learning and Engineering at Scale and leads the Machine Learning, Platform, Federal, 3D, and Mapping products. In his prior work, he helped create the Cruise Automation self-driving car and served as the first Head of Perception and AI. His interest in robotics and AI started with national and international robotics competitions in high school and continued in college and grad school where he published work on field robotics, localization, computer vision, and AI systems. His previous work includes stints on the Google Project Tango AR platform and Air Force MURI research programs.