Siraj Raval
Siraj Raval
Siraj Raval is a Data Scientist, [1] YouTuber, and bestselling author. He was born and raised in the USA and moved to Amsterdam. He holds a Computer Science degree from Columbia University in New York City. He is on his warpath to inspire and educate developers to build AI as the Director of the School of AI.
Nicknames
Siraj has been been called many things, mostly good.
Here is a small list of his monikers:
Bill Nye of Computer Science
Kanye of code
Beyoncé of Neural Networks
Usain Bolt of Learning
Chuck Norris of Python
Jesus Christ of Machine Learning
Experience
Siraj's song "Data Lit"
Siraj has had a prolific career that spans many firms and institutions.
He's been Lead Software Engineer at BlabSay, Robotics Researcher at Columbia University, Lead Software Engineer at Lucid Robotics, Software Engineer at Meetup, Mobile Engineer at CBS Interactive, Developer Educator at Twilio, and he even has his own company called as "The Siraj Raval Company".
In 2016, Siraj became the Director of the School of AI where he teaches developers about artificial intelligence. He wrote a rap song about his January 2019 data course called "Data Lit" that has been viewed more than 100,000 times on YouTube.
Siraj has worked on the following projects:
OpenAI
Google
Talso the Humanoid Robot
Compliant Humanoid Arm
Da Vinci Surgical Robot
Controversies
Controversies
He claimed to have written a research paper on Qubits which was published in his personal website.
A significant portion of it was plagiarized and copied verbatim from other peer-reviewed papers.
The School of AI course that was run by Raval was advertised to include only 500 students for better student interaction and support.
It turned out to accommodate more than 1200 students split into 2 groups neither of them knowing about the other group.
The participants who were unsatisfied with the quality requested a refund.
Raval claimed that the refund policy states that the refund can be given only 14 days until the start of the course.
Responding to widespread outrage from the public, Raval was forced to refund students.
The actual number of students who received the refund is unknown.
Recent Works
He has authored and created various youtube videos including:
An Affordable Semi-Autonomous 7 DOF Mobile Manipulation Platform Components And An Android/iOS Control SDK Architecture for Telepresence and Remote Manipulation (Not research paper)
An Underactuated Compliant Five-Fingered Robotic Arm Using Hobby Mechatronic Equipment for Grasping and Manipulation
Building a Semi-Autonomous Low-Cost Humanoid Robotics Platform For Research Related Development and Modification (Not research paper)
A Real-Time Conversation Search Engine using Keyword Generalization via Categorical Computation (Not research paper)
Siraj is the author of the bestselling book, *Decentralized Applications: Harnessing Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology. [11] (*Not research paper)