Subhajit Datta is a passionate software developer.
He did his Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology (BE in IT) from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST, Shibpur), formerly known as Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur.
He completed his Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering (MTech CSE) from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay); his thesis focused on topics in natural language processing.
He has experience working in the investment banking domain and web application domain, and is a polyglot having worked on Java, Scala, Python, Unix shell scripting, VBScript, JavaScript, C#.Net, and PHP. He is interested in learning and applying new and different technologies.
He believes that choosing the right programming language, tool, and framework for the problem at hand is more important than trying to fit all problems in one technology.
He also has experience working in the Waterfall and Agile processes. He is excited about the Agile software development processes.
Rui Gonçalves is an all-round, hardworking, and dedicated software engineer. He is an enthusiast of software architecture, programming paradigms, algorithms, and data structures with the ambition of developing products and services that have a great impact on society.
He currently works at ShiftForward, where he is a software engineer in the online advertising field. He is focused on designing and implementing highly efficient, concurrent, and scalable systems as well as machine learning solutions. In order to achieve this, he uses Scala as the main development language of these systems on a day-to-day basis.
Patricia Hoffman, PhD, is a consultant at iCube Consulting Service Inc., with over 25 years of experience in modeling and simulation, of which the last six years concentrated on machine learning and data mining technologies. Her software development experience ranges from modeling stochastic partial differential equations to image processing. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at International Technical University, teaching machine learning courses. She also teaches machine learning and data mining at the University of California, Santa Cruz—Silicon Valley Campus. She was Chair of Association for Computing Machinery of the Data Mining Special Interest Group for the San Francisco Bay area for 5 years, organizing monthly lectures and five data mining conferences with over 350 participants.
Patricia has a long list of significant accomplishments. She developed the architecture and software development plan for a collaborative recommendation system while consulting as a data mining expert for Quantum Capital. While consulting for Revolution Analytics, she developed training materials for interfacing the R statistical language with IBM's Netezza data warehouse appliance.
She has also set up the systems used for communication and software development along with technical coordination for GTECH, a medical device start-up.
She has also technically directed, produced, and managed operations concepts and architecture analysis for hardware, software, and firmware. She has performed risk assessments and has written qualification letters, proposals, system specs, and interface control documents. Also, she has coordinated with subcontractors, associate contractors, and various Lockheed departments to produce analysis, documents, technology demonstrations, and integrated systems. She was the Chief Systems Engineer for a $12 million image processing workstation development, and had scored 100 percent from the customer.
The various contributions of Patricia to the publications field are as follows:
A unified view on the rotational symmetry of equilibria of nematic polymers, dipolar nematic polymers, and polymers in higher dimensional space, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, Volume 6, 949-974
She worked as a technical editor on the book Machine Learning in Action, Peter Harrington, Manning Publications Co.
A Distributed Architecture for the C3 I (Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence) Collection Management Expert System, with Allen Rude, AIC Lockheed
A book review of computer-supported cooperative work, ACM/SIGCHI Bulletin, Volume 21, Issue 2, pages 125-128, ISSN:0736-6906, 1989
Md Zahidul Islam is a software developer working for HSI Health and lives in Concord, California, with his wife.
He has a passion for functional programming, machine learning, and working with data. He is currently working with Scala, Apache Spark, MLlib, Ruby on Rails, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, and Backbone.js. Earlier in his career, he worked with C#, ASP.NET, and everything around the .NET ecosystem.