Chris Nicholson

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Founder & CEO at Skymind.io : Deep learning for Industry

Technology / Software / Internet

I lead Skymind, the commercial support arm of the open-source framework Deeplearning4j. Skymind helps companies in telecommunications, finance and tech build deep learning applications and predictive analytics for text, time series, sound and image data. Deeplearning4j integrates with Hadoop and Spark, running on clusters of dozens of GPUs. Previously, I handled PR and recruiting for FutureAdvisor, an automated investment manager backed by Sequoia, Canvas and YCombinator. FutureAdvisor grew by 44x during my 18 months there, tripling the size of its personnel. Before that, I reported and edited for The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and Bloomberg Businessweek. Special...