Kirk is a data scientist, top big data influencer and professor of astrophysics and computational science at George Mason University.He spent nearly 20 years supporting NASA projects, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope as Data Archive Project Scientist, NASA’s Astronomy Data Center, and NASA’s Space Science Data Operations Office. He has

Alexandre Passant is the co-founder of Music and Data Geeks, a music-tech company based in Dublin. Music and Data Geek’s chief product is Seevl.fm, a music meta-data API to help music services make sense of their data, provide recommendations to their users, and more. He has 10 years’ experience in

Ulrich Kerzel earned his PhD under Professor Dr Feindt at the US Fermi National Laboratory and at that time made a considerable contribution to core technology of NeuroBayes. After his PhD, he went to the University of Cambridge, were he was a Senior Research Fellow at Magdelene College. His research

Haifeng Li is the Chief Data Scientist at ADP. He has a proven history in delivering end-to-end solutions, having previously worked for Bloomberg and Motorola. He is a technical strategist with deep understanding of computer theory and emerging technologies. He also has a diverse academic background, researching in fields including machine

Daniel is a software engineer at Fon and PhD student at the Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering department of Complutense University of Madrid. His research interests are computer vision and machine learning. He is specially interested in the applications of the emerging field of deep learning. You can reach him

Carla is currently owner and data scientist at Analytical Solution. She has worked in the field of data science for over 15 years and has worked for Fortune 100 and 500 companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Hershey, Kraft, Kellogg’s and Firestone. She is today ranked amongst the top 10

Jamal is a regular commentator on the Big Data industry. He is an executive and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience driving strategy for Fortune 500 companies. In addition to technology strategy, his concentrations include digital oil fields, the geo-mechanics of multilateral drilling, well-site operations and completions, integrated workflows,

Max Kanaskar is an Associate for Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company). He has extensive experience in IT capability development and data management, and has advised companies in transformational data management programs, including data strategy, management and governance. See All of Max Kanaskar’s Posts Here