Samir Madhavan has over six years of rich data science experience in the industry and has also written a book called Mastering Python for Data Science. He started his career with Mindtree, where he was a part of the fraud detection algorithm team for the UID (Unique Identification) project, called Aadhar, which is the equivalent of a Social Security number for India. After this, he joined Flutura Decision Sciences and Analytics as the first employee, where he was part of the core team that helped the organization scale to an over a hundred members. As a part of Flutura, he helped establish big data and machine learning practice within Flutura and also helped out in business development. At present, he is leading the analytics team for a Boston-based pharma tech company called Zapprx, and is helping the firm to create data-driven products that will be sold to its customers.

Oleg Okun is a machine learning expert and an author/editor of four books, numerous journal articles, and conference papers. His career spans more than a quarter of a century. He was employed in both academia and industry in his mother country, Belarus, and abroad (Finland, Sweden, and Germany). His work experience includes document image analysis, fingerprint biometrics, bioinformatics, online/offline marketing analytics, and credit-scoring analytics.

He is interested in all aspects of distributed machine learning and the Internet of Things. Oleg currently lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.