Palash Goyal graduated from IIT Guwahati and with a specialization in mathematics and computing. He is passionate about data science and its applications and spends most of his time researching on data science techniques. He has experience in digital marketing, web analytics, and mathematical finance. In his free time, he likes to travel, sketch, and follow blogs related to upcoming technologies and tech-products.
He is presently working with the data science team of MakeMyTrip Pvt. Ltd. and has experience working with start-ups in online marketing on Facebook and Google platforms as well as Oracle as an application developer. You can find his data science, neural networks, and artificial intelligence related tweets at http://www.twitter.com/palgoyal1 and you can connect with him on LinkedIn at in.linkedin.com/in/palashgoyal1.
Kyunghoon Kim is the cofounder of the event explorer Core.Today and is a unified MS/PhD student in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). He is interested in the development of new algorithms that are inspired by nature. Currently, he is focused on researching mathematical programming for data mining, especially its complex network structure. He is also currently working on a long-term project to design the framework to realize the automated mathematician.
Kyunghoon is an avid Python programmer. He talked on NetworkX, a Python library to study networks and graphs, at PyCon, Korea, in 2014.
Pablo Paredes Navarro has a bachelor in business administration degree from Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile, and an MSc in science and technology studies from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has participated in different research projects, focusing on social network analysis and digital development, and has also talked at length on these subjects at seminars conducted in Chile and the United Kingdom. His current interests are related to the use of SNA for digital networks, e-government, and ICT for development purposes in general.
Doug Needham has been building and managing data-focused enterprises for over 20 years. Distilling data down to a graph and providing various analysis results to be used in customer sites has been his most recent focus. Doug can be reached on Twitter @dougneedham.
Steven Paul Sanderson II is currently in the last year of his graduate program, after which he will obtain his master's degree in public health from the State University of New York at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. He has worked in a hospital setting for about 9 years in various departments. Steven is an active user of StackExchange sites and his aim is to self-learn several topics, most notably Stack Overflow, where he is working to gain an understanding and become a better user of SQL, R, VB, and Python.
He is currently employed as an EpicCare analyst for NYU Langone Medical Center, located in Manhattan, a large forward thinking academic medical center.
Steven has also worked on Network Graph Analysis and Visualization with Gephi, Ken Cherven, Packt Publishing, and has also coauthored a book with a former professor, Phillip Baldwin, called The Pleistocene Re-Wilding of Johnny Paycheck, which can be found as a self-published book at LULU.com: http://www.lulu.com/shop/phillip-baldwin/the-pleistocene-re-wilding-of-johnny-paycheck/paperback/product-21204148.html.