Amita Kapoor is an associate professor in the Department of Electronics, SRCASW, University of Delhi, and has been actively teaching neural networks and artificial intelligence for the last 20 years. She completed her master's in electronics in 1996 and her PhD in 2011. During her PhD she was awarded the prestigious DAAD fellowship to pursue part of her research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. She was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the Photonics 2008 international conference. She is an active member of ACM, AAAI, IEEE, and INNS. She has co-authored two books. She has more than 40 publications in international journals and conferences. Her present research areas include machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep reinforcement learning, and robotics.
I would like to thank Prof Ajit Jaokar, University of Oxford; his IoT course was the inspiration behind this book. Special thanks to Erin LeDell, Chief Machine Learning Scientist at H2O.ai for her thoughtful suggestions. I would also like to thank Armando Fandango, Narotam Singh, Ruben Olivas, and Hector Velarde for their input. I am grateful for the support of my colleagues and students. Last but not least, I would like to thank the entire Packt team, with a special mention to Tushar Gupta, Karan Thakkar, and Adya Anand for their continuous motivation.
Hector Duran Lopez Velarde received a B.Che.E. from UPAEP and an MSc in automation and artificial intelligence from Tecnologico de Monterrey ITESM, Mexico, in 2000. He has worked as a controls and automation engineer for companies such as Honeywell and General Electric, among others. He also has participated in several research projects as a technical lead. His experience in software development, process simulation, artificial intelligence, and industrial automation has led him to the current development of complete IoT solutions in the automotive, textile, and pharmaceutical industries. He is currently working on a research center of IoT.
Huge thanks to my wife, Yaz, and to my children, Ivana and Hector, for all their support and love.
Ruben Oliva Ramos is a computer engineer from Tecnologico of León Institute, with a master's degree in computer and electronics systems engineering with a networking specialization from the University of Salle Bajio. He has more than 5 years' experience of developing web apps to control and monitor devices connected to Arduino and Raspberry Pi, using web frameworks and cloud services to build IoT applications. He has authored Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects, Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript, Advanced Analytics with R and Tableau, and SciPy Recipes for Packt.
I would like to thank my savior and lord, Jesus Christ for giving me strength and courage to pursue this project, to my dearest wife, Mayte, our two lovely sons, Ruben and Dario, to my dear father (Ruben), my dearest mom (Rosalia), my brother (Juan Tomas), and my sister (Rosalia), whom I love. I’m very grateful to Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to collaborate as an author and reviewer, to belong to this honest and professional team.
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