Alla Sridhar :
Sridhar?Alla?is the co-founder and CTO of Blue Whale Consulting and is expert at helping companies (big and small) define their vision for systems and capabilities that will allow them to establish a strategic execution plan to deal with the ever-growing data collected to support analytics and product teams. He has very experienced at dealing with all aspects of data collection, security, governance, and processing as part of end-to-end big data analytics and machine learning initiatives (including predictive modeling, deep learning, and ML automation). Sridhar?is a published book author and an avid presenter at numerous conferences, including Strata, Hadoop World, and Spark Summit.? He also has several patents filed with the US PTO on large-scale computing and distributed systems.? He has over 18 years' experience writing code in Scala, Java, C, C++, Python, R, and Go, and has extensive hands-on knowledge of Spark, Flink, TensorFlow, Keras, Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak, Redis, Zeppelin, Mesos, Docker, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Solr, H2O, machine learning, text analytics, distributed computing, and high-performance computing. Sridhar lives with his wife and daughter in New Jersey and in his spare time loves blogging and coaching organizations on next-generation advancements in technology and their alignment with business goals.Karim Md. Rezaul :
Md. Rezaul Karim is a researcher, author, and data science enthusiast with a strong computer science background, coupled with 10 years of research and development experience in machine learning, deep learning, and data mining algorithms to solve emerging bioinformatics research problems by making them explainable. He is passionate about applied machine learning, knowledge graphs, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). Currently, he is working as a research scientist at Fraunhofer FIT, Germany. He is also a PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Before joining FIT, he worked as a researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland. Previously, he worked as a lead software engineer at Samsung Electronics, Korea.
