Md. Rezaul Karim is a research scientist at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Germany. He is also a PhD candidate at the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. He holds a BSc and an MSc degree in computer science. Before joining the Fraunhofer-FIT, he worked as a researcher at Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland. Prior to that, he worked as a lead engineer with Samsung Electronics' distributed R&D Institutes in Korea, India, Vietnam, Turkey, and Bangladesh. Previously, he worked as a research assistant in the Database Lab at Kyung Hee University, Korea. He also worked as an R&D engineer with BMTech21 Worldwide, Korea. Prior to that, he worked as a software engineer with i2SoftTechnology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
He has more than 8 years' experience in the area of Research and Development with a solid knowledge of algorithms and data structures in C/C++, Java, Scala, R, and Python focusing on big data technologies (such as Spark, Kafka, DC/OS, Docker, Mesos, Zeppelin, Hadoop, and MapReduce) and Deep Learning technologies such as TensorFlow, DeepLearning4j, and H2O-Sparking Water. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, semantic web/linked data, big data, and bioinformatics. He is the author of the following books with Packt Publishing:
- Large-Scale Machine Learning with Spark
- Deep Learning with TensorFlow
- Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics
I am very grateful to my parents, who have always encouraged me to pursue knowledge. I also want to thank my wife, Saroar, son, Shadman, elder brother, Mamtaz, elder sister, Josna, and friends, who have always been encouraging and have listened to me.