The Vision
Rebecca Bilbro, Ph.D
Founder/CTO
Bio
A pioneer of the data science revolution in the early 2010’s, Dr. Rebecca Bilbro is an applied AI/ML engineer, teacher, and author who has worked across academia, industry, and the public sector.
Rebecca (aka @Elder_Data_Scientist) is co-creator of Yellowbrick, a Python library that integrates the scikit-learn and matplotlib APIs to support more convenient model diagnostics and steering.
As co-founder and CTO of Rotational Labs, Rebecca is motivated by a desire to unite the data science and engineering communities. She and her team help other companies leverage in-house domain expertise and data to build and deploy LLMs, data products, and services.
Rebecca earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where her research centered on domain-specific languages within engineering.
Blog Posts Written by Rebecca
Recapping PyTorch: Key Takeaways from the 2024 Conference
I spent last week in San Francisco meeting up with the Rotational team to attend PyTorch Conference. If you’re an LLM developer and didn’t make it this year, here are some of my key highlights and takeaways.
Sep 24, 2024AI isn't Chatbots, it's an Interface
Why is everyone so excited by AI? Chatting with a bot isn’t the game changer. Instead, AI represents a new method of interacting with complex computing resources and data – one that is far more accessible than previous methods.
Jul 17, 2024Welcome to the Age of PostSQL
Calling all programmers! It’s time to get a bit more curious about data storage, because we’re about to enter the age of PostSQL…
May 9, 20233 Trends that Will Disrupt Managed Services in 2023
If nothing else, the last year has brought the winds of change to the tech sector. From high-visibility layoff cycles at FAANGs and crypto companies, to turbulence in our social media infrastructure, to pop culture’s discovery of deep …
Dec 23, 2022The Eventing Platform Landscape
Kafka and PubSub and Kinesis, oh my! Which eventing platform is best? In this post we’ll explore the three primary categories of eventing systems and understand their similarities, differences, and key use cases.
Sep 10, 20226 Things You Didn't Realize about Crypto
As a distributed systems company, we’ve had the privilege of speaking with dozens of vendors building crypto-adjacent solutions over the past few years. We’ve learned a lot along the way, especially about some of the key misconceptions that …
Jun 6, 2022