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Patrick Atwater serves as project manager for the California Data Collaborative, a coalition of water utilities working together to share metered water use data and ensure water reliability. He has worked as a consulting…

Athanassios Kintsakis is an ECE BSc/MSc graduate, and Ph.D. Candidate in the field of statistics and machine learning applied in bioinformatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has co-authored numerous journal publications, presented at…

Brian Dolan is well-known in the data community as a leading mathematician, data scientist, and analyst with more than 20 years of hands-on experience, including high-profile work in the US Intelligence Community, Northern Trust Bank, and…

Frank joined Human Longevity, Inc. in 2016 as a thought leader and SME to support human genome research-based product development for life insurance and HC industry. Frank was the executive director of enterprise analytics…

Annie is a software engineer, product/project/people manager, and a data scientist. She focuses on the application of machine learning techniques to extract insights in the areas of marketing, media, publishing and consumer behavior. She…

Min Zhang, CFA is CEO and co-founder of Totum Wealth.  Min brings over 10 years of institutional investing experience to transform wealth management.  Previously, Min was Director of Investment Risk Management at Pacific Life…

As a Technical Program Manager in the Big Data Technologies group at Intel, Dave oversees partnerships and programs that help customers find out about and get started with Deep Learning in Spark. Prior to…

I am the COO of Ranker and RankerInsights.com. We are a digital media and data platform. In my role, I oversee both our internal use of data as well as the commercialization of our…

Dr. Peter Fennell is a James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow at the Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California. His research examines human behavior and social networks and developing statistical and machine learning methods…

Jennifer Prendki is the Head of Data Science at Atlassian, where she uses Big Data and Machine Learning to create products that help other companies change the world. Her original area of expertise is…