Talks
Demystifying AI & Data Science (w/ Luca Massaron)
In this chat with Abhishek Thakur, Luca Massaron discusses the evolving landscape of AI and machine learning. He shares practical insights from his data science journey, emphasizing feature engineering and cross-validation, while also reflecting on his career writing technical books for the data community.
Year 2025 | Language: English
Data Analysis and Machine Learning in Competitive Data Science
In this Google Developer Student Club event with TU Munich, ETH Zurich and University of Bologna, Kaggle Grandmaster Luca Massaron explores the evolution of competitive data science. He provides an overview of Kaggle's features, while offering practical advice on how participating can accelerate learning and career growth for aspiring data scientists.
Year 2022 | Language: English
AI For Good | Building ML Systems For Fairness At Scale | Luca Massaron & Nikhil Bhaskaran
Raghavan Srinivasan, Consulting Editor at BOOM, speaks to our panel of experts (Luca Massaron & Nikhil Bhaskaran) in this session on Building ML Systems For Fairness At Scale
Year 2022 | Language: English
Kaggle's 30 Days of ML: Scikit-optimize for LightGBM
In this tutorial, Luca Massaron guides beginners through hyperparameter optimization using Bayesian Optimization with the Scikit-optimize package. The session contrasts various tuning strategies, dives into the mechanics of the LightGBM algorithm, and offers a step-by-step coding recipe applied to real-world competition data.
Year 2021 | Language: English
Smarter - Il Podcast Italiano sull'Intelligenza Artificiale - Luca Massaron
In this podcast episode, Luca Massaron is interviewed about his extensive experience as a data scientist in the banking and insurance sectors. He discusses his journey into the world of data science and artificial intelligence. The conversation also touches on his numerous books on the subject and his achievements in the Kaggle data science competition community.
Year: 2021 | Language: Italian
Talks S2E5 (Luca Massaron): Hacking Bayesian Optimization
In this talk, Luca Massaron works with Scikit-optimize (skopt), programming custom procedures in order to suit complex hyper-parameter setting problems, controlling for time and cost of computation, and extending to neural architecture search.
Year: 2021 | Language: English
Bayesian Optimization for Neural Architecture Search - #DevFest2020 Italia
In this session, Luca Massaron, Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning, explains how to leverage Bayesian optimization to draft the best DNN architecture for your TensorFlow projects.
Year: 2020 | Language: Italian
Deep Learning For Tabular Data - Luca Massaron
This talk by Luca Massaron from Deep Learning DevCon 2020 explains how deep learning can be effectively used for predictions on tabular data. He discusses using TensorFlow and Keras, drawing on examples from Kaggle competitions, to achieve state-of-the-art results. The presentation also touches on data preparation and the differences in model complexity compared to classical machine learning.
Year: 2020 | Language: English
Deep Learning for tabular data - #DevFestVeneto19
This video explains how Deep Learning can be used for making predictions with tabular data, the type of data typically found in databases and tables. The presentation explores the methodology behind this approach. It also evaluates its performance against more conventional machine learning algorithms such as gradient boosting.
Year 2019 | Language: English
Luca Massaron @ Kaggle Days Meetup Milan #2
This video features a talk by Luca Massaron at the second Kaggle Days Meetup in Milan. Luca discusses the Kaggle PetFinder competition. He uses the example of detecting puppies in photos to explain deep learning concepts.
Year: 2019 | Language: Italian
GBDT Specification + Optimization
This video from Kaggle Days Paris features a workshop by Luca Massaron and Pietro Marinelli. The presentation is a tutorial on leveraging Bayesian Optimization to tune the hyperparameters of Gradient Boosting Decision Trees (GBDT). They cover methodologies for LightGBM, XGBoost, and CatBoost.
Year 2019 | Language: English
Luca Massaron for Carlo Erminero & Co @ Assirm
This video features Luca Massaron discussing "Insight, Web & Big Data.". The talk focuses on the researcher and their expertise. It explores how this human knowledge can serve as a source of learning. The ultimate application is for intelligent artificial agents.
Year: 2013 | Language: Italian