# AMA with François Chollet; Software Engineer, AI Researcher and Author **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask Me Anything\ **Created:** [January 3, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/ama-with-francois-chollet-software-engineer-ai-researcher-and-author/1670 "2022-01-03T15:41:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rajnek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c89c15/32.png) [@rajnek](https://community.wandb.ai/u/rajnek)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/ama-with-francois-chollet-software-engineer-ai-researcher-and-author/1670/1 "2022-01-03T15:41:18Z")
Hi all! Kickstarting the new year with a power-pack AMA session 👏 # The Guest We’re beyond excited to have none other than François Chollet drop by for a chat! François Chollet is a French software engineer, AI Researcher & Author currently working as Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google. He is the **Creator of the** **Keras deep-learning library** , released in 2015, main contributor to the TensorFlow ML framework and Author of ‘ **Deep Learning with Python** ’ 📚 His papers have been published at major conferences in the field, including the Conference on [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR)](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/1000147/all-proceedings), the [Conference on Neural IPS](https://nips.cc/) and the [ICLR](https://iclr.cc/). - 📢 At 8am on Jan 8, François will answer all questions in the event livestream. 👉[register here](https://events-dl-with-python.wandb.ai/)👈 Links to follow: - François’s [Twitter](https://twitter.com/fchollet?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fchollet/) and [Website](https://fchollet.com/). - Registration will be shared on Tue Jan 4 Let’s go! ![ama Francois](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/864d016e27749bbd9d5a9dfd7064d902751d9491.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![lessing](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/lessing/32/200_2.png) [@lessing](https://community.wandb.ai/u/lessing)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/ama-with-francois-chollet-software-engineer-ai-researcher-and-author/1670/3 "2022-01-04T20:54:27Z")
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**Author:** ![jimmiemunyi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/jimmiemunyi/32/190_2.png) [@jimmiemunyi](https://community.wandb.ai/u/jimmiemunyi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/ama-with-francois-chollet-software-engineer-ai-researcher-and-author/1670/4 "2022-01-05T07:53:55Z")
This reading group couldn’t have come at a better time. Just when I needed to get into Keras. Thanks, Weights and Biases! ---
**Author:** ![yuvraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5a626/32.png) [@yuvraj](https://community.wandb.ai/u/yuvraj)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/ama-with-francois-chollet-software-engineer-ai-researcher-and-author/1670/5 "2022-01-08T16:34:26Z")
Hey Sanyam, what is the best paid resource other than Colab, where you can submit your job to run in background without worrying of it not completing due to some reasons? ---
**Author:** ![bhutanisanyam1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/bhutanisanyam1/32/18_2.png) [@bhutanisanyam1](https://community.wandb.ai/u/bhutanisanyam1)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/ama-with-francois-chollet-software-engineer-ai-researcher-and-author/1670/6 "2022-01-09T13:17:17Z")
Hey yuvraj! I think jarvislabs.ai is a great option!