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Ameet Talwalkar

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Chief Scientist at Datadog
📍 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Ameet Talwalkar is the Chief Scientist at Datadog and an Associate Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in machine learning systems, co-founded Determined AI (acquired by HPE), and co-authored the textbook "Foundations of Machine Learning. " He earned his PhD from New York University.

He is passionate about advancing AI research and fostering the next generation of talent. He credits his postdoc experience at Berkeleys AMPLab as transformational and advocates for funding similar collaborative research environments. He is also a co-founder of the MLSys conference, dedicated to research at the intersection of systems and machine learning.

He led the initial development of MLlib, Apache Sparks scalable machine learning library, which has become a widely used open-source tool.

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Current Role
Chief Scientist
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Specialized AI Models
His research at Datadog and CMU focuses on creating specialized foundation models and agents to solve concrete, domain-specific problems rather than relying on general-purpose models.
ML Systems
He co-founded the MLSys conference and his work, including co-founding Determined AI, centers on building the practical infrastructure required to deploy machine learning effectively.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Chief Scientist
Datadog
Carnegie Mellon University
8 yrs 4 mos
2-2022 - 12-2024
Venture Partner
Amplify Partners
7-2017 - 6-2021
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Determined AI
8-2014 - 6-2017
Assistant Professor
UCLA
In the press

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Inside Datadog's AI Strategy with Chief Scientist, Ameet Talwalkar. Featured in Conversational AI News
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Foundations Seminar: Ameet Talwalkar, Chief Scientist, Datadog. Featured in Columbia University AI Center
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Education
2006 - 2010
PhD
New York University
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Yale University
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