Sujit Pal currently works in information retrieval and natural language processing in the healthcare industry. He uses a combination of his company's manually curated medical taxonomy and a variety of open-source tools such as Lucene, Hadoop, Mahout, Akka, OpenNLP, and so on, to build the company's semantic search platform. His main areas of interest are search, distributed processing, NLP, and machine learning. He believes in lifelong learning and blogs about his experiences at http://sujitpal.blogspot.com.
He works for Healthline Networks, Inc., which is a start-up in the consumer healthcare space.
Anders Lybecker is a technical evangelist for Microsoft and has more than 10 years of experience as a solutions architect, working with multi-billion dollar revenue systems within the travel, finance, and banking industries. A special interest in search technologies and especially Lucene has led to more than a dozen implementations with Lucene, Solr, and ElasticSearch.
Anders has presented at numerous conferences and holds a degree in software engineering, specializing in software development. He blogs about software development including search technologies at http://www.lybecker.com/blog/.