“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
- JK Rowling
Fields like AI-ML and Data Science are evolving by the day and require exposure to multiple literary sources. We have curated some good reads on AI-ML, Data Science, Natural Language Processing, Entrepreneurship, Communication and Leadership to help you become a thought leader in the field and expose you to interdisciplinary learning.
Plaksha Technology Leaders Program's global faculty and industry experts share books that have influenced them, left them wiser, more informed or got them thinking about ideas and concepts afresh!
Principal Data and Applied Scientist at Turing India, Microsoft
Monojit is Principal Data and Applied Scientist in Turing India, where he builds large universal language models that forms the backbone of various Microsoft products. Prior to this, he was Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Lab in India. At Plaksha, he teaches 'The Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP).
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Practical Natural Language Processing
by Sowmya Vajjala | Bodhisattwa Majumder | Anuj Gupta | Harshit Surana
Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing
by Yoav Goldberg
Speech and Language Processing
by Dan Jurafsky | James H. Martin
Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing
by Emily Bender
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
by Chris Manning | Hinrich Schütze
MACHINE LEARNING / DEEP LEARNING
Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
by Ian Goodfellow, et al.
Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
by Kevin P Murphy
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
by Chris Bishop
POPULAR TITLES IN MACHINE LEARNING
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
by Scott Page
The Book of Why?
By Judea Pearl
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
by David Spiegelhalter
BLOGS ON NLP AND DL
Sebastian Ruder's blog on NLP
Great for keeping up to date with state-of-the-art NLP Research
Jay Alammar's illustrative blog
Great Illustrative explanations of NLP, Transformers and ML
Founding Partner, Predli | Co-founder, Galiot | Faculty, UC Berkeley
Alexander was awarded Amazon's prestigious Innovation Fellowship 2018-2019. He has been a part of the founding team of three companies and has a successful track record of consulting for Fortune 500 companies, advising and running startups, and hosting executive education programs for business leaders all over the world. At Plaksha, he teaches courses on AI-ML.
An Introduction to Statistical Learning
by Gareth James | Daniela Witten | Trevor Hastie | Robert Tibshirani
The Elements of Statistical Learning
by Trevor Hastie | Robert Tibshirani | Jerome H. Friedman
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras and Tensor Flow
by Aurelien Geron
Deep Learning with Python
by Francois Chollet
Deep Learning
by Ian Goodfellow
Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On
by Maxim Lapan
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
by Martin Kleppmann
Technology Leader Program, Class of 2020
Senior AI Evangelist @Jina AI | Author @O'Reilly Media | Co-founder @Kairos
Shubham is building the future of search at Jina AI to empower the next generation of the search ecosystem. He has co-authored ‘GPT-3: Building innovative NLP Products using Large Language Models’. He is also Co-founder at Kairos Data Labs, which is actively working to minimize the gap between state-of-the-art AI innovations and applied AI applications within organizations.
Deep Learning
by Ian Goodfellow | Yoshua Bengio | Aaron Courville
Natural Language Processing with Transformers
by Lewis Tunstall | Leandro von Werra |Thomas Wolf
GPT-3: Building Innovative NLP Products using LLMs
by Sandra Kublik | Shubham Saboo
Designing Machine Learning Systems
by Chip Huyen
Life 3.0
by Max Tegmark
Faculty, Mechanical Engineering | Purdue University
Dr. Panchal's research was in the areas of Computational Design, Systems Engineering, and Human Behavior in Design. His study in engineering design was funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and several other companies. He has advised a host of students in research and application of design, not just at Purdue University but also Plaksha technology leaders.
The Design Thinking Playbook
by Michael Lewrick | Patrick Link | Larry Leifer
The Design of Everyday Things
by Don Norman
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
by Jake Knapp
Product Design and Development
by Karl T. Ulrich | Steven D. Eppinger
Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive, Fractal
Srikanth is the Co-founder, Group Chief Executive and Executive Vice Chairman of Fractal. Fractal is a leading player in artificial intelligence and transformative enterprise decision making space. Since Srikanth co-founded Fractal in 2000, the company has raised more than USD 300 million from institutional private equity investors. The unicorn serves more than 100 Fortune 500 companies with its AI, data and analytics driven business strategies. Under his leadership, Fractal has developed several product lines within the company including Cuddle.ai, Eugenie.ai and Qure.ai.
Life 3.0
by Max Tegmark
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
Managing Oneself
by Peter F. Drucker
Flow
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Founder & CEO, Indifi Technologies
Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, a platform to expand access to debt financing for Indian SMEs. He is a successful first-generation entrepreneur based in India. He is also a founding member of Indian Angel Network - a forum for making angel investments.
Alok is passionate about creating value through startups. He is also keenly interested in entrepreneurship development in India. His specialties include starting and running businesses, entrepreneurship, early stage investing, technology investing, angel investing
Misbehaving
by Richard Thaler
Nudge
by Richard Thaler
The Singularity is Near
by Ray Kurzwell
Director of Global Programs | Entrepreneurship | Innovation | UC Berkeley
David has a long track record of successful program design and execution in corporate and academic environments. Currently at the Sutardja Center at UC Berkeley, he empowers future entrepreneurs, leaders and innovators to challenge the status quo.
Where Good Ideas Come From
by Steven Johnson
The Lean Startup
by Eric Ries
Art of the Start
by Guy Kawasaki
Mindset
by Carol Dweck
Drive
by Daniel Pink
The Power of Habit
by Charles Dunigg
Leaders Eat Last
by Simon Sinek
Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell
Tribal Leadership
by Logan, King and Wright
The Hard Thing about Hard Things
by Ben Horowitz
Thinking Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
Radical Candor
by Kim Scott
Crucial Conversations
by Kerry Patterson
Creativity, Inc
by Ed Catmull
Freelancer, Communications trainer, coach & consultant World Bank
Amit has 25+ years of cumulative experience as a communication coach, journalist, learning specialist, and manager in organizations across India, the US, Nepal, and Mauritius. His training experience spans across institutions such as the World Bank, Deloitte, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Jindal Stainless among others.
Just Listen
by Mark Goulston
Thinking Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
Getting on Yes
by Roger Fisher | William Ury
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
by Kerry Patterson | Joseph Grenny | Ron McMillan | Al Switzler
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert B. Cialdini
