Dear ETF Alumni and Friends,
ETF BAFA is inviting all ETF BAFA members and friends to attend our 2023 annual meeting next Saturday November 11 at 4PM PST. We decided to organize this meeting as a zoom only meeting hoping that it will be the easiest way to include ETF Alumni who were not able to attend the past meetings in person. We especially invite Alumni from the USA who are not local to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend (hoping that our most active members from SF Bay Area will join as well).
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83113160869?pwd=QWVmS2V0eGlXaE8yWnprLzVhVFpPZz09
passcode: etfbafa
Our invited speaker this year is Mirko Ristivojevic from Amazon who will present a talk "Machine Learning: A Practitioner's Tale." After the talk, ETF BAFA board members will present our 2023 activities and financial reports, the ETF BAFA competition for the 2023 best thesis awards and our plans for 2024 ETF BAFA activities.
Sincerely,
ETF BAFA board
Dejan Milojicic, Jasmina Vujic, Jozo Dujmovic, Ksenija Lakovic, Jovanka Ciric Vujkovic, Milos Jorgovanovic, and Zoran Dimitrijevic
Invited Speaker Bio:
Mirko Ristivojevic is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, most recently working on text transformation problems within the Alexa organization. Previously Mirko worked on developing the Amazon Dash Cart as part of the Amazon Go organization. Before Amazon, Mirko worked on Computer Vision problems in several companies in the Boston area, including a video surveillance analytics startup (IntelliVid), company that acquired it (Tyco, now Johnson Controls), and healthcare digital identity company (Imprivata). He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer engineering from Boston University and has seven patents. Mirko was born in Sabac, Serbia and graduated from ETF Belgrade majoring in Electronics.