Nataraj Dasgupta is the vice president of Advanced Analytics at RxDataScience Inc. Nataraj has been in the IT industry for more than 19 years and has worked in the technical and analytics divisions of Philip Morris, IBM, UBS Investment Bank and Purdue Pharma. He led the data science division at Purdue Pharma L.P. where he developed the company’s award-winning big data and machine learning platform. Prior to Purdue, at UBS, he held the role of associate director working with high frequency and algorithmic trading technologies in the Foreign Exchange trading division of the bank.
I'd like to thank my wife, Suraiya, for her caring, support, and understanding as I worked during long weekends and evening hours and to my parents, in-laws, sister and grandmother for all the support, guidance, tutelage and encouragement over the years. I'd also like to thank Packt, especially the editors, Tejas, Dinesh, Vinay, and the team whose persistence and attention to detail has been exemplary.
Giancarlo Zaccone has more than 10 years experience in managing research projects both in scientific and industrial areas. He worked as a researcher at the C.N.R, the National Research Council, where he was involved in projects on parallel numerical computing and scientific visualization. He is a senior software engineer at a consulting company, developing and testing software systems for space and defense applications. He holds a master's degree in physics from the Federico II of Naples and a second level postgraduate master course in scientific computing from La Sapienza of Rome.
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