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High Signal: Data Science | Career | AI

Welcome to High Signal, the podcast for data science, AI, and machine learning professionals.
High Signal brings you the best from the best in data science, machine learning, and AI. Hosted by Hugo Bowne-Anderson and produced by Delphina, each episode features deep conversations with leading experts, such as Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley), Andrew Gelman (Columbia) and Chiara Farranato (HBS).
Join us for practical insights from the best to help you advance your career and make an impact in these rapidly evolving fields.
More on our website: https://high-signal.delphina.ai/

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Update frequency
every 14 days
Average duration
60 minutes
Episodes
23
Years Active
2024 - 2025
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Episode 23: Why Most AI Agents Fail (and What It Takes to Reach Production)

Episode 23: Why Most AI Agents Fail (and What It Takes to Reach Production)

Anu Bharadwaj (President, Atlassian) joins High Signal to unpack how humans and AI agents will work together across the enterprise, and how that shift could change the very nature of teamwork. Atlass…

00:51:17  |   Tue 02 Sep 2025
Episode 22: Why a Trillion Dollars of Market Cap Is Up for Grabs (and How AI Teams Will Win It)

Episode 22: Why a Trillion Dollars of Market Cap Is Up for Grabs (and How AI Teams Will Win It)

Tomasz Tunguz (Theory Ventures) joins High Signal to unpack why a trillion dollars of market cap is up for grabs as AI reshapes enterprise software. He explains why workflows are now changing faster …

00:46:50  |   Tue 19 Aug 2025
Episode 21: Why Great Data Still Leads to Bad Decisions (And How to Fix It)

Episode 21: Why Great Data Still Leads to Bad Decisions (And How to Fix It)

Amy Edmondson (Harvard Business School) and Mike Luca (Johns Hopkins) join High Signal to unpack what actually drives good decisions in data‑rich organizations. Using contrasts like the Bay of Pigs v…

00:50:38  |   Tue 05 Aug 2025
Episode 20: Incentives, Accountability, and the Data Leader’s Dilemma

Episode 20: Incentives, Accountability, and the Data Leader’s Dilemma

Daragh Sibley, Chief Algorithms Officer at Literati and former Director of Data Science at Stitch Fix, joins High Signal to unpack how machine-learning moves from slide-deck promise to bottom-line im…

01:03:13  |   Tue 22 Jul 2025
Episode 19: Defaults, Decisions, and Dynamic Systems: Behavioral Science Meets AI

Episode 19: Defaults, Decisions, and Dynamic Systems: Behavioral Science Meets AI

Lis Costa, Chief of Innovation and Partnerships at the Behavioural Insights Team, joins High Signal to explore how behavioral science is reshaping public policy, digital platforms, and machine learni…

00:54:08  |   Thu 03 Jul 2025
Episode 18: High-Stakes AI Systems and the Cost of Getting It Wrong

Episode 18: High-Stakes AI Systems and the Cost of Getting It Wrong

Sudarshan Seshadri—VP of AI, Data Science, and Foundations Engineering at Alto Pharmacy—joins us to explore what it takes to build high-stakes AI systems that people can actually trust. He shares les…

00:58:45  |   Thu 19 Jun 2025
Episode 17: The Incentive Problem in Shipping AI Products — and How to Change It

Episode 17: The Incentive Problem in Shipping AI Products — and How to Change It

Roberto Medri, VP of Data Science at Instagram, explains why most experiments fail, how misaligned incentives warp product development, and what it takes to drive real impact with data science. He sh…

00:53:52  |   Thu 29 May 2025
Episode 16: How Human-Centered AI Actually Gets Built

Episode 16: How Human-Centered AI Actually Gets Built

Fei-Fei Li—co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute and one of the most respected voices in the field—reflects on AI’s evolution from the early days of ImageNet to the rise of foundation…

00:47:22  |   Tue 13 May 2025
Episode 15: Why Good Metrics Still Lead to Bad Decisions — and How to Fix It

Episode 15: Why Good Metrics Still Lead to Bad Decisions — and How to Fix It

Eoin O'Mahony—data science partner at Lightspeed, former Uber science lead, and one of the early architects of the system that kept NYC’s Citi Bikes available across the city—argues that positive met…

00:54:17  |   Thu 24 Apr 2025
Episode 14: Why Most Companies Aren’t Actually AI Ready (and What to Do About It)

Episode 14: Why Most Companies Aren’t Actually AI Ready (and What to Do About It)

Barr Moses—co-founder and CEO of Monte Carlo—thinks we’re headed for an AI reckoning. Companies are building fast, but most are still managing data like it’s 2015. In this episode, she shares high-st…

00:51:58  |   Thu 10 Apr 2025
Episode 13: The End of Programming As We Know It

Episode 13: The End of Programming As We Know It

Tim O’Reilly—founder of O’Reilly Media and one of the most influential voices in tech—argues we’re not witnessing the end of programming, but the beginning of something far bigger. He draws on past c…

01:23:09  |   Thu 27 Mar 2025
Episode 12: Your Machine Learning Solves The Wrong Problem

Episode 12: Your Machine Learning Solves The Wrong Problem

Stefan Wager—Professor at Stanford and expert on causal machine learning—has worked with leading tech companies including Dropbox, Facebook, Google, and Uber. He challenges the widespread assumption …

00:54:40  |   Thu 13 Mar 2025
Episode 11: What Comes After Code? The Role of Engineers in an AI-Driven Future

Episode 11: What Comes After Code? The Role of Engineers in an AI-Driven Future

Peter Wang—Chief AI Officer at Anaconda and a driving force behind PyData—challenges conventional thinking about AI’s role in software development. As AI reshapes engineering, are we moving beyond wr…

01:05:44  |   Thu 27 Feb 2025
Episode 10: AI Won't Save You But Data Intelligence Will

Episode 10: AI Won't Save You But Data Intelligence Will

Ari Kaplan—Global Head of Evangelism at Databricks and a pioneer in sports analytics—explains why businesses fixated on AI often overlook the real advantage: making better decisions with their own da…

00:59:42  |   Wed 12 Feb 2025
Episode 9: Why 90% of Data Science Fails—And How to Fix It -- With Eric Colson

Episode 9: Why 90% of Data Science Fails—And How to Fix It -- With Eric Colson

In this episode of High Signal, Eric Colson—former Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix and VP of Data Science and Machine Learning at Netflix—breaks down why most companies fail to unlock the full…

01:09:40  |   Thu 30 Jan 2025
Episode 8: From Zero to Scale: Lessons from Airbnb and Beyond

Episode 8: From Zero to Scale: Lessons from Airbnb and Beyond

In this episode of High Signal, Elena Grewal—former Head of Data Science at Airbnb, political consultant, professor at Yale, and ice cream shop owner—shares her journey of building data teams that sc…

01:06:42  |   Thu 09 Jan 2025
Episode 7: What Lies Beyond Machine Learning and AI: Decision Systems and the Future of Data Teams

Episode 7: What Lies Beyond Machine Learning and AI: Decision Systems and the Future of Data Teams

In this episode of High Signal, Chris Wiggins—Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times, Professor at Columbia University, and co-author of How Data Happened—shares how organizations can move beyond…

01:18:44  |   Thu 19 Dec 2024
Episode 6: What Happens to Data Science in the Age of AI?

Episode 6: What Happens to Data Science in the Age of AI?

In this episode of High Signal, Hilary Mason—renowned data scientist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Hidden Door—shares her unique insights into the evolving world of data science and generative AI.…

01:18:23  |   Wed 04 Dec 2024
Episode 5: The Hard Truth About Building AI Systems and What Most Leaders Miss About AI

Episode 5: The Hard Truth About Building AI Systems and What Most Leaders Miss About AI

In this episode of High Signal, Gabriel Weintraub (the Amman Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business), brings his expertise in market design, da…

01:02:06  |   Wed 20 Nov 2024
Episode 4: How to Build an Experimentation Machine and Where Most Go Wrong

Episode 4: How to Build an Experimentation Machine and Where Most Go Wrong

Ramesh Johari (Stanford, Uber, Airbnb, and more) explores the art and science of online experimentation, especially in the context of marketplaces and tech companies.

Ramesh shares insights on how o…

00:51:16  |   Thu 07 Nov 2024
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