Former Columbia professor and bestselling author of The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment and Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, which has been used in courses at hundreds of universities. He is the founder of the long-running Machine Learning Week conference series and its new sister, Generative AI Applications Summit. During his time at Columbia University, he won the Distinguished Faculty award when teaching graduate Computer Science courses in ML and AI. Eric has appeared on numerous media channels, including Bloomberg, National Geographic, and NPR, and has published in Newsweek, HBR, SciAm blog, WaPo, WSJ, and more.