Samrat Ambadekar is a user experience designer and prototyper, currently residing in the United States. He holds a Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from University of Pune, India. He has over 5 years of experience as a designer and developer, with expertise in rapid prototyping and contextual interactions. His work and interests span across UX design, interaction design, concept prototyping, 3D interactions, augmented reality, and data visualization. Apart from work, he enjoys sketching, blogging, hiking/trekking, cooking, and (occasionally) practicing kickboxing. To know more about his work, visit www.samratambadekar.com.
Alex Rothenberg has been writing software for quite a while on mobile apps, websites, and even shrink-wrapped CD-ROMs. The one constant is that he enjoys finding ways to think about complex problems in simple ways. He has really enjoyed working with D3.js recently, as visualizations are such a powerful way to convey information.
Claudio Squarcella is an InfoVis enthusiast, who possesses both theoretical and technical skills. He has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering and is devoted to web-based network visualization. He currently works at ThousandEyes in San Francisco, where he turns network measurement data into informative graph visualization dashboards for enterprise customers.
Arjun Srinivasan is currently pursuing his graduation in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Science from R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India. He has worked with industry-renowned names, including SAP Labs India and Microsoft Corp. (India) along with several start-ups. His primary research interests include visual analytics, machine learning, and databases, and he focuses on how concepts from these areas can be integrated and applied in the domains of healthcare informatics and business decision-making software development. Arjun has worked with D3.js extensively for a while now, and along with using D3.js for almost all his projects, he has also developed D3.js-based plugins for two start-ups in Bangalore, India. His current projects in the visualization domain include a genome visualization project with the Georgia Aquarium and a business ecosystem visualization tool. His website can be viewed at http://arjun010.github.io/.