EPFL Investor Day 2024

10 Dec 2024 | Lausanne, Switzerland

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Vinitra Swamy

CEO, co-founder

Scholé AI

Lausanne, Switzerland

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Machine Learning PhD at EPFL, originally from the Bay Area. Ex-Microsoft AI, UC Berkeley. CEO of Scholé, an emerging AI-edtech startup.

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Scholé AI

Scholé AI

Startup in Creation

Lausanne, Switzerland

Scholé is an AI-driven learning platform that redefines how data science and AI skills are taught. Adult learners are dropping out of MOOCs offered on platforms like Coursera and EdX at unprecedented rates. The one-size-fits-all model with weekly lectures and assignments simply doesn’t work for those balancing a 9-to-5 or an 8-to-7. We believe that learning should be 1) relevant to your job context, 2) self-regulated, 3) multimodal, 4) highly personalized and 5) flexible. With a founding team of the first two PhDs from EPFL's new Machine Learning for Education lab and cutting-edge research from the EPFL LEARN and AI centers, Scholé uses the best of AI to effectively teach AI. Scholé has been recently recognized as Winners of the 2024 Learning Engineering Tools Competition, International Finalists of the MIT Solve Competition, and EPFL Ignition grant recipients. We’re redefining education for professionals.
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About me

Vinitra Swamy is a graduating machine learning PhD at EPFL, and the CEO of Scholé AI. Her research on ML for education is co-advised by the ML4ED and MLO labs with Tanja Kaser and Martin Jaggi. Prior to entering Switzerland, Vinitra graduated from UC Berkeley with both a Bachelor's and Master's in Computer Science at age 20, holding the record for the youngest graduate in the EECS department.

She spent two years at Microsoft AI working on open source AI frameworks as a lead engineer for the Open Neural Network eXchange (ONNX). She loves teaching data science courses, and served as part-time teaching faculty at the UC Berkeley Division of Data Sciences and the University of Washington CSE Department. She formerly interned at IBM Research, LinkedIn, NASA Ames Research Center, and Google.

Vinitra's work has been featured in over 20 news articles and in venues like NeurIPS, AAAI, and EMNLP. She has been recognized with the G-Research PhD prize 2024, the EPFL EDIC Fellowship, the EPFL IC Distinguished Service Award 2022, 2023, and 2024, the UC Berkeley Graduate Opportunity Fellowship 2018, and the UC Berkeley EECS Award of Excellence for Teaching and Leadership 2017, as well as several best paper nominations and awards (LAK 2023, AIED LBR 2024, ECTEL 2024). She has been recently named by Stanford, UCSD and UChicago as a 2024 Rising Star in Data Science.

http://vinitra.github.io

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Scholé has reimagined employee upskilling: highly personalized learning tailored exactly to your organization's needs using multimodal learning, LLMs, and award-winning research in AI for education. Prepare your workforce to thrive in an AI-driven world.

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Speaker sessions (1)

Tuesday, 10 December 2024

17:30 - 18:00

Pitch Session Startups in creation

In-personPitch Area 1Pitch Session

The final pitch session will spotlight startups in the creation phase, offering a sneak peek at the next wave of market-disrupting innovations.