Episode 59: [Value Boost] How Data Scientists Can Get in the AI Room Where It Happens

From Value Driven Data Science: Boost your impact. Earn what you’re worth. Rewrite your career algorithm. Dr Genevieve Hayes

Everyone’s talking about AI, but the real opportunities for data scientists come from being in the room where key AI decisions are made.

In this Value Boost episode, technology leader Andrei Oprisan joins Dr Genevieve Hayes to share a specific, proven strategy for leveraging the current AI boom and becoming your organisation’s go-to AI expert.

This episode explains:

How to build a systematic framework for evaluating AI models [02:05]
The key metrics that help you compare different models objectively [02:28]
Why understanding speed-cost-accuracy tradeoffs gives you an edge [05:47]
How this approach gets you “in the room where it happens” for key AI decisions [07:20]

Guest Bio

Andrei Oprisan is a technology leader with over 15 years of experience in software engineering, specializing in product development, machine learning, and scaling high-performance teams. He is the founding Engineering Lead at Agent.ai and is also currently completing an Executive MBA through MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

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