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Farshad is a Lead Data Scientist at BCG DV; he has been working on several projects used machine learning including deep learning, natural language processing, and other data science techniques for several projects. On…

Dr. Yutao He is currently Senior Research Technologist at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), leading the research and development of advanced computing technology for future NASA space missions. He is also an adjunct faculty member…

Raymond Fu is a seasoned IT professional specializing in big data, artificial intelligence, and enterprise architecture. As an innovative technology builder balanced by business acumen, his ten-year corporate career with Bank of America was…

Shiv Muddada is one of the founding engineers of HackerRank and currently head engineering at its headquarters in Palo Alto. HackerRank creates opportunities for developers by helping companies find great developers based on their…

Founder & CEO of Moolah Science, ex-Honey BD Director. Author of Adventures Crossing the U.S.A. by Tandem Bike

Ian Parrish is a senior data scientist and manager at Tala. In this role, he leads efforts to build our credit modeling and fraud detection efforts. Prior to coming to the data science world,…

He has extensive experience in architecting analytics-ready next-generation data lakes incorporating on-premise or public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) infrastructure to meet enterprise needs. Previous experience in network solutions architecting for Orologic, and Vitesse; and…

Frank Bell is a Principal at IT Strategists (www.itstrategists.com), a leading business and technology consulting firm in advanced AI, web, and mobile development in Southern California. He has consulted with companies such as Yahoo,…

Anton is a published author of predictive modeling algorithms with application in computational biology. Anton received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Riverside, Master of Science in Finance and honored Master of Science…