[{"id":4582,"title":"AB Periasamy, CEO & Co-Founder at Minio","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/ab-periasamy\/","term_categories":[{"id":137,"name":"Board of Directors","slug":"board-of-directors"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/anand_babu_periasamy.jpg","featured_img_alt":"anand babu periasamy","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abperiasamy"},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7868,"title":"Abhinandan Kumar","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/abhinandan-kumar\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Abhi-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"VP of Sales, APAC","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11647,"title":"Abigail Charles","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/abigail-charles\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20190611_213608-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":10069,"title":"Achraf Merzouki","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/achraf-merzouki\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_1130-1-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Computer engineer and maker, Achraf likes working with new technologies, designing and creating new products, also likes building automation to streamline the software development process.<\/p>\n<p>On his free time Achraf paints on canvas and play basketball.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7636,"title":"Adam Izadi","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/adam-izadi\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/0.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p class=\"x_gmail-p1\">Adam Izadi is an Account Executive at H2O.ai responsible for our Commercial Accounts in the Pacific Northwest region. He brings 5 years of Enterprise sales experience and has a Bachelors degree in Political Science from UCLA.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":13382,"title":"Alan Silva","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/alan-silva\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Image-from-iOS-8-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div>Alan Silva is a Researcher\/Engineer\/Architect experienced in a wide range of distributed and security systems and network technologies; his technical background includes cryptography, mathematics, network protocols, distributed systems, operational systems, application security, secure software development and R&amp;D of some products.<\/p>\n<p>Before joined H2O, he works at Cloudera as Hadoop guy for LATAM (Latin American Countries) where he implemented and configured the most part of existing clusters in this area and works with a lot of use cases that involve ML and code optimization on the top of Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop and he has been an invited speaker for some Big Data Conferences in Latin American (Chile, Brazil, Argentina), for some lectures in Universities in Brazil and Chile and Strata Data Conference at New York.<\/p>\n<p>He holds a degree in Mathematics and a Masters in Computer Science with a focus on Distributed Systems from Federal University of S\u00e3o Carlos, Brazil.<\/p><\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5811,"title":"Alisha Tahir-Kheli","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/alisha-tahir-kheli\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PIC-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Alisha has a background in psychology, enjoys heavy metal, and plans to travel to all 50 states before the age of 30.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12525,"title":"Alyssa Cacatian","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/alyssa-cacatian\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20190608_200701-1-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve been in the Human Resources and Talent Acquisition space for 4 years. I first delved into HR when I started as a Recruiting Coordinator at New York Life Insurance despite being an English Major at San Jose State University. I grew my passion for HR during my time as a HR professional at Waterline Data and learned more about talent acquisition, retention, benefits and HR practices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides being a people person, I enjoy dabbling into drawing and creating illustrations which I periodically upload on Instagram. My goal for the next decade is to visit as many countries as I could and envelop myself with diverse cultures and experiences. I live with my husband, Joey, and my cats, Talim and Ziggy.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4051,"title":"Amy Vu-Tran","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/amy-vu-tran\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/amy_vu_tran-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Amy Vu Tran","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12762,"title":"Ana Castro","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/ana-castro\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_1618-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Ana is a Data Science Evangelists for H2O.ai. Before H2O.ai, she worked as an Evangelist for Hortonworks(Cloudera). She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and is currently pursuing a Master in Statistics with a concentration in Machine Learning at San Jose State University.<\/p>\n<p>When not at H2O.ai or school, she can be found in Fresno working with farmers to identify ML solutions for their agricultural challenges.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7676,"title":"Andrej Misustin","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/andrej-misustin\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/andrej_misustin-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p class=\"p1\">From Zilog Z80 assembly to z\/OS JCL, I enjoyed learning it all and I've joined H2O to learn some more.\u00a0I'm a SDET with experience in businesses as diverse as business intelligence platform, software development tools, mainframe DB management or video on demand platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m not only making friends with the computers, but also enjoy playing bass in a garage punk band.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4056,"title":"Angela Bartz","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/angela-bartz\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/angela-bartz.png","featured_img_alt":"Angela Bartz","excerpt":"<p>Angela is the doc whisperer at H2O. She began writing when she was in her single digits, though these early documents are either heavily redacted or remain confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Since graduating from the University of Detroit Mercy with a B.A. in English, she has worked as a technical writer in a variety of industries. Her affinity for machine learning software grew from her two-year tenure reigning over all documentation at Skytree.<\/p>\n<p>Angela loves learning new software, new tools, and new approaches for delivering documentation. When she\u2019s not working, Angela likes to spend time with her husband (with whom she has fierce sporting rivalries) and their old dog (who has to put up with said rivalries). She also enjoys trying out new restaurants and tasting craft beers, especially those made by her friends.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4061,"title":"Anmol Bal","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/anmol-bal\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/linkedin-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Anmol has a operations and build\/test background. In the past he has worked with small digital agency and a global marketing and advertising company.<\/p>\n<p>Anmol likes being the in-between person with operations, QA and engineers. He loves learning new things and always tries to expand his knowledge of everything.<\/p>\n<p>In his spare time Anmol likes to go on adventures and work on anything with two wheels bicycles and motorcycles.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5339,"title":"Anu Vaidyanathan","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/anu-vaidyanathan\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ANU-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":null,"name":null,"designation":null,"twitter":null},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4046,"title":"Arno Candel","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/arno-candel\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6147661_huge.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Arno Candel","excerpt":"<p>Arno Candel is the Chief Technology Officer at H2O.ai. He is the main committer of H2O-3 and Driverless AI and has been designing and implementing high-performance machine-learning algorithms since 2012. Previously, he spent a decade in supercomputing at ETH and SLAC and collaborated with CERN on next-generation particle accelerators.<\/p>\n<p>Arno holds a PhD and Masters summa cum laude in Physics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He was named \u201c2014 Big Data All-Star\u201d by Fortune Magazine and featured by ETH GLOBE in 2015. Follow him on Twitter: @ArnoCandel.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arnocandel?lang=en"},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7532,"title":"Arno Candel, CTO","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/arno-candel-cto\/","term_categories":[{"id":138,"name":"Leadership Team","slug":"leadership-team"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6147661_huge.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Arno Candel","excerpt":"<p>Arno Candel is the Chief Technology Officer at H2O.ai. He is the main committer of H2O-3 and Driverless AI and has been designing and implementing high-performance machine-learning algorithms since 2012. Previously, he spent a decade in supercomputing at ETH and SLAC and collaborated with CERN on next-generation particle accelerators.<\/p>\n<p>Arno holds a PhD and Masters summa cum laude in Physics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He was named \u201c2014 Big Data All-Star\u201d by Fortune Magazine and featured by ETH GLOBE in 2015. Follow him on Twitter: @ArnoCandel.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arnocandel?lang=en"},"key":"2","key_num":2},{"id":10592,"title":"Arthur Kantor","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/arthur-kantor\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mugshot-Arthur-Kantor-256x240.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"\">Arthur Kantor has been doing software development professionally for over 22 years.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><wbr class=\"\" \/><span class=\"\">Prior to joining\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"x_c-link\" href=\"http:\/\/h2o.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H2O.ai<\/a><span class=\"\">, he worked at the IBM Prague lab as a team lead for an automated reading tutor and as one of the team leads working on the Watson speech-to-text and text-to-speech services.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><wbr class=\"\" \/><span class=\"\">Arthur received his computer science doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign focusing on automatic speech recognition.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4048,"title":"Ashrith Barthur","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/ashrith-barthur\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ashrith_barthur.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Ashrith Barthur","excerpt":"<p>Ashrith is the security scientist designing anomalous detection algorithms at H2O. He recently graduated from the Center of Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University with a PhD in Information security. He is specialized in anomaly detection on networks under the guidance of Dr. William S. Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>He tries to break into anything that has an operating system, sometimes into things that don\u2019t. He has been christened as \u201cThe Only Human Network Packet Sniffer\u201d by his advisors.<\/p>\n<p>When he is not working he swims and bikes long distances.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11258,"title":"Badr Chentouf","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/badr-chentouf\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Badr-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7571,"title":"Basil Darwish, Managing Director Strategic Investments at Wells Fargo","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/basil-darwish-managing-director-strategic-investments-at-wells-fargo\/","term_categories":[{"id":137,"name":"Board of Directors","slug":"board-of-directors"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/basil_darwish-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"basil darwish","excerpt":"<p>Basil serves as a Managing Director, Strategic Investments at Wells Fargo. Basil focuses his investments on financial technology, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning and enterprise software infrastructure. Prior to Wells Fargo, Basil was senior vice president at Citi\u2019s growth ventures and innovation group where he focused on venture investments and innovation across the US and, prior to that, in Asia out of Singapore. Prior to that, Basil spent several years in the technology industry in various roles across the value chain, from semiconductor product engineering and system-level integration at Analog Devices Inc and as a digital design engineer at Chinook Communications, a tech startup that emerged out of MIT.<\/p>\n<p>Basil holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business with a double major in finance and entrepreneurial management, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University focused on semiconductor design, and a BSc in EE from the University of Jordan.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":13235,"title":"Ben Scheiner","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/ben-scheiner\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ben-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Ben is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon. He has extensive experience developing web apps at scale, creating interactive dashboards, and building human-robot interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Ben is passionate about open source software and user-driven design. His hobbies include Ultimate Frisbee, improv, and adventures in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":13756,"title":"Benjamin Cox","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/benjamin-cox\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/headshot-1-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div><span class=\"il\">Benjamin<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Cox<\/span> works as a PMM consultant at H2O.ai, specializing in thought leadership\u00a0on Responsible AI and AI Transformations strategy.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Ben<\/span> is a University of Chicago Booth School of Business MBA candidate majoring in Business Analytics and Econometrics. He holds a BS in Economics from the College of Charleston. Prior to H2O.ai,\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Ben<\/span>\u00a0was a Manager at Ernst &amp; Young's Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence, Data Science at Nike, High-Frequency Trading at Citigroup, and others.<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4060,"title":"Branden Murray","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/branden-murray\/","term_categories":[{"id":219,"name":"Kaggle Grandmasters","slug":"kaggle-grandmasters"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/branden_murray.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Branden Murray","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7640,"title":"Charles Black","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/charles-black\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Chaz-Black-Picture-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Chaz is a Sales Development Representative for H2O.ai, with over 10 years in sales and business development experience. He serves as the initial point of contact for customers in southern and central United States as well as the EMEA region. Chaz is excited about the potential uses for Driverless AI and what the future holds for AI and Machine Learning.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Chaz is based out of Atlanta, GA. On weekends, you can find him on a golf course, catching a local comedy show, or hanging out with family and friends.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":10621,"title":"Chemere Davis","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/chemere-davis\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Chamere-Davis-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Chemere is a Senior Data Science Training Specialist for H2O.ai. Chemere has a Master's in Business Administration with focus in Marketing Analytics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She\u00a0is an experienced data scientist with a diverse background in transformational decision-making in various industries including Banking, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Medical Devices. Chemere joins us from Venus Concept\/2two5, where she was the Lead Data Scientist focused on building predictive models with Internet of Things (IoT) data and for a subscription-based marketing product for B2B customers.<span class=\"m_-1522944530910091899gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Prior to that, Chemere worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Wells Fargo Bank focused on various applied predictive analytic solutions.<span class=\"m_-1522944530910091899gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In her free time, Chemere sits on the board of several nonprofits with a focus on women in technology and first-generation college student success.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":8392,"title":"Chris 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She has a deep understanding of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;\">markets and has driven innovative and new Technologies like Cloud,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;\">PaaS Based Security Solution, application and desktop virtualization, digital\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;\">platform and UAV(Drone) based Surveillance and Security Solutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;\">She has been an entrepreneur and exited her System Integration company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;\">She has previously worked in Leadership positions at Microsoft, Citrix,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;\">Akamai Technologies and NTT Communications. 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I graduated with honours from the the Moscow State University with a degree in Data Mining and have more than 10 years of experience of machine learning applications in banking risk management and insurance. On Kaggle I am focusing on wide range of topics and problems, holding gold medals in classic machine learning, as well as natural language processing, deep learning and time series competitions.<\/p>\n<p>In my spare time I enjoy doing sports, like football, hiking, archery, as well as occasionally playing video games and watching movies.<\/p>\n<p>You can find me on LinkedIn (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dmitry-gordeev-50116023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dmitry-gordeev-50116023\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1585844015596000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF2NQ1m9boP_e_NBC8zW5aJNZksCg\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/<wbr \/>dmitry-gordeev-50116023\/<\/a>) and follow me on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dott1718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/dott1718&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1585844015596000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGKhsWGcMUNNl57XMXYWKAyGDpaZQ\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/dott1718<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4071,"title":"Dmitry Larko","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/dmitry-larko\/","term_categories":[{"id":219,"name":"Kaggle Grandmasters","slug":"kaggle-grandmasters"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dmitry_larko.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Dmitry Larko","excerpt":"<p>Dmitry has more than 10 years of experience in IT. Starting with data warehousing and BI, now in big data and data science.<\/p>\n<p>He has a lot of experience in predictive analytics software development for different domains and tasks.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a Kaggle Grandmaster who loves to use his machine learning and data science skills on Kaggle competitions.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4075,"title":"Douglas DeLoy","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/douglas-deloy\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/douglas.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Douglas DeLoy","excerpt":"<p>Over 15 years of web and web application development experience delivering enterprise front end solutions (strong emphasis on data visualization) for companies such as: Google, Intuit, McKinsey & CO, Bank of America and eTrade. All phases: Program management, lead development, and senior development roles. For past 5-6 years primarily focused on Single Page Applications(SPAs) using Google Angular framework.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":9184,"title":"Edgar Orendain","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/edgar-orendain\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/edgar-orendain-2-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>A Software Engineer, Edgar studied Computer Science at UC Berkeley.\u00a0 Before H2O, Edgar was a Lead Software Engineer building high-performance microservices in Scala.\u00a0 He engineered data pipelines at Hortonworks and was the architect of the company's new generation of data platform environments for the desktop.<\/p>\n<p>When not glued to one of his machines, he can be found volunteering, playing board games or D&amp;D, or on a mission to find the best nachos in town.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":10420,"title":"Elena Boiarskaia","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/elena-boiarskaia\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20180929_163134-1-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>As a Senior Solutions Engineer, Elena is passionate about helping H2O.ai customers solve advanced data science problems while maximizing business value. With a background in Math and Economics, Elena loves to explore diverse applications of machine learning, earning her PhD from the University of Illinois with a dissertation focusing on predicting health outcomes using accelerometers.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Elena worked with a variety of customer data science use cases while at Databricks, as well building machine learning models to identify manipulative activity in the US markets as the Lead Data Scientist at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). In her spare time, Elena loves to ski, trains Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and dances classical ballet.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":13402,"title":"Elena Militsyna","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/elena-militsyna\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-10-at-10.25.46-AM-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Elena is a Software Engineer at H2O. She is mainly focused on backend development, has experience with building enterprise software, web application development, relational databases optimization and data analysis.<br \/>\nShe is holding a specialist's degree in Complex protection of Information objects. Prior to joining H2O, she has been working as a Software Engineer on different projects varying from development of firmware for power supply systems using C\/C++ and Java to implementation of analytical and prediction system for healthcare with Python. She has also done development of PLM software for Siemens in Prague.<br \/>\nShe loves learning new technologies, development of distributed and cloud-based applications. In her free time she likes dancing, gym and workout, cycling and growing plants.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":13258,"title":"Ellen Friedman, PhD","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/ellen-friedman\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ellen-Friedman-Copy-5-500-headshot-May-2018-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Ellen is Technical Evangelist at H2O.ai. She is an international speaker, author, and scientist with\u00a0a PhD in biochemistry from Rice University. Ellen has been a committer for Apache Drill and Apache Mahout projects and previously a laboratory researcher in molecular biology. In addition to authoring publications in technical fields from genetics to oceanography, she is co-author of data-related books published by O\u2019Reilly Media, including\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">AI &amp; Analytics in Production<\/i>,\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Machine Learning Logistics, Streaming Architecture<\/i>,\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Introduction to Apache Flink<\/i>\u00a0and the\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Practical Machine Learning\u00a0<\/i>series. Ellen has been an invited speaker for keynotes at JFokus in Stockholm, Big Data London, the University of Sheffield Methods Institute (UK) and NoSQL Matters in Barcelona as well as invited talks at Nike Tech Talks (Portland OR), Berlin Buzzwords and Strata Data conferences in San Jose CA and London. She's\u00a0also an artist with not-enough-time for the paint box.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12662,"title":"eRic Choo","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/eric-choo\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eric-Choo-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7 years in the semiconductor industry, eRic began his career as a Service Engineer while evolving to a Senior Sales Engineer. He then took the leapt of faith, transiting to the insurance industry as a Financial Service Consultant. Eventually, missing the technologies in the product he sold, eRic entered the IT industry involving in Storage and Backup Solution sales. In 2014, an opportunity came leading eRic into the world of Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning and AI. He had since led analytics consulting team to sales team, from creating new business units to developing businesses into different markets for new logos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eRic had recently completed his 2 year part-time Global MBA with The University of Manchester: Alliance Manchester Business School before joining H2O.ai as a Technical Business Development Manager.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4081,"title":"Eric Gudgion","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/eric-gudgion\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/eric_gudgion-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Eric Gudgion","excerpt":"<p>Eric is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect, he is passionate about performance and scalability. Eric\u2019s role enables him to help customers adopt h2o within their enterprises.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4070,"title":"Erin LeDell","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/erin-ledell\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/erin_ledell.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Erin LeDell","excerpt":"<p>Erin is the Chief Machine Learning Scientist at H2O.ai. Erin has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics with a Designated Emphasis in Computational Science and Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on automatic machine learning, ensemble machine learning and statistical computing. She also holds a B.S. and M.A. in Mathematics. Before joining H2O.ai, she was the Principal Data Scientist at Wise.io (acquired by GE Digital in 2016) and Marvin Mobile Security (acquired by Veracode in 2012), and the founder of DataScientific, Inc.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":13436,"title":"Eve-Anne Tr\u00e9hin","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/eve-anne-trehin\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2019-06-25-11-32-15-753-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div>After a successful experience in Marketing working for various software providers such as Aptean and Avolin, Eve-Anne is excited to join H2O.ai as EMEA Field Marketing Manager. In her previous roles, Eve-Anne was in charge of planning and running Marketing programs for different solutions of the companys\u2018 portfolios and across several regions in order to generate leads, increase sales pipeline, build brand awareness and increase customer engagement.<br \/>\nEve-Anne is French, but was born and raised in Germany, she did part of her studies in Belgium and in London, which gave her a passion for multiculturality and foreign languages.<br \/>\nShe holds a bachelor's degree in translation and a master's in marketing, and was also recently certified in Project Management.<br \/>\nIn her spare time, Eve-Anne enjoys traveling, photography and CrossFit.<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11440,"title":"Felix Arokiamaniraj","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/felix-arokiamaniraj\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/felix_linkedin.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5341,"title":"Feng Bai","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/feng-bai\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Feng-picture-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":null,"name":null,"designation":null,"twitter":null},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5033,"title":"Gabriela Onufrakova","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/gabriela-onufrakova\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Gabriela-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Gabriela","excerpt":"<p>Office Manager<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7551,"title":"Greg Fousas","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/greg-fousas\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG-20190312-WA0008-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Greg is a data scientist with work experience that spans more than 20 projects, 15 brands, 5 industries and 5 countries and still counting! You could call him \u201cthe multi-tool\u201d and please do, as he\u2019s desperate for this nickname to catch on.<\/p>\n<p>He studied Production Engineering and Management, he has a MSc in Operational Research from the University of Edinburgh and studied a bit of Cognitive Science. Recently he completed a self driving car nanodegree.<\/p>\n<p>Greg also runs an amateur online Python course entitled \u201cyour 10 minutes of Python per day\u201d and is happy to be able to call Scotland home. Due to an injury, this is the first time -since his toddler years- that Greg is not playing basketball. He\u2019s channeling all this extra energy into his work projects. So beware!<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4074,"title":"Gregory Kanevsky","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/gregory-kanevsky\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/gregory_kanevsky-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Gregory Kanevsky","excerpt":"<p>Gregory helps H2O customers solve problems using both advanced data science and business experience. His career started on Wall Street as a software developer for a market data provider and in last 20+ years he led architecture and development of enterprise supply chain software suite, worked as principal integration engineer at FedEx, helped companies like American Airlines and Terminix jump start their web presence. Last 6 years Gregory spent at Teradata leading pre-sales data science on Aster and R. His package toaster was first open-source tool to integrate Aster and R and is hosted on CRAN.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory holds MSc in Applied Math from the U. of Texas at Dallas, is a frequent traveler, avid tennis player, and amateur wine geek.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11268,"title":"Gregory Keys","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/gregory-keys\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Gregory-keys-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12425,"title":"Guanshuo Xu","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/guanshuo-xu\/","term_categories":[{"id":219,"name":"Kaggle Grandmasters","slug":"kaggle-grandmasters"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Guanshuo-Xu-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p class=\"aLF-aPX-K0-aPE\">Guanshuo Xu is now a Data Scientist at H2O.ai. He is a Kaggle Competitions Grandmaster. In his Kaggle profile (https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/wowfattie), you can find more information about his current and past Kaggle competition achievements. Guanshuo also holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering focused on machine learning based image forensics and steganalysis. His methods for real-world image tampering detection and localization won the second place in the First IEEE Image Forensics Challenge. And his architectural design of deep neural networks outperformed traditional feature-based methods for the first time in image steganalysis.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":10045,"title":"Harib Bakhshi","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/harib-bakhshi\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Id-New-Full-2-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Harib is a senior solutions engineer focused on growing revenue within the UK. He has many years of experience as a Data Scientist providing solutions to businesses to drive digital transformation through advanced AI. 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Hemen completed his Bachelors in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>Hemen has a passion for creating tools and believes in sharing them with larger community, Getbhavcopy (www.getbhavcopy.com) is one of the tools widely adopted in India for downloading daily data from Indian stock exchanges for technical analysis.<\/p>\n<p>During his free time Hemen enjoys spending time with his family, mostly cooking something special on weekends and spending time reviewing his daughter\u2019s school homework while keeping himself informed of the latest in the field of technology.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11348,"title":"Hiroyuki Oguchi","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/hiroyuki-oguchi\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/HiroyukiOguchi-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hiroyuki is a Sales Engineer with H2O. 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He used to play Rugby Football, but not anymore.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":14825,"title":"Holly Belcham","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/holly-belcham\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200605_114501-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Holly is an experienced Business Development representative who has been working in the enterprise SaaS space since graduating from Sussex university with a degree in International Relations. 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She has several decades of experience leading global marketing teams to build brands, create demand, and engage and grow communities. She also serves as an independent director on the Extreme Networks board. Prior to H2O.ai she was CMO at Hortonworks, where she drove a brand and marketing transformation, and created ecosystem programs that positioned the company for growth. At SAP she co-created the Cloud strategy, led SAP HANA and Analytics marketing, and drove developer outreach.<\/p>\n<p>She also served as CMO at Silver Spring Networks and Plantronics after spending almost 20 years at Sun Microsystems, where she was head of Sun marketing, led Java marketing to build out a thriving Java developer community, championed and led open source initiatives, and drove various product and strategic initiatives. 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Jade holds a BA from Cornell University\u2019s Arts &amp; Sciences College with a degree in Economics and Asian Studies.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4092,"title":"Jakub Hava","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jakub-hava\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jakub_hava.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Jakub Hava","excerpt":"<p>Jakub (or \u201cKuba\u201d as we call him) completed his Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Computer Science and Master\u2019s Degree in Software Systems at Charles University in Prague. As a bachelor\u2019s thesis, Kuba wrote a small platform for distributed computing of any types of tasks. During his master\u2019s degree studies, he developed a cluster monitoring tool for JVM based languages which makes debugging and reasoning the performance of distributed systems easier using a concept called distributed stack traces. Kuba enjoys dealing with problems and learning new programming languages. At H2O.ai, Kuba works on Sparkling Water.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from programming, Kuba enjoys exploring new cultures and bouldering. He\u2019s also a big fan of tea preparation and the associated ceremony.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5035,"title":"James Dean","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/james-dean\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/James-Dean-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"James Dean","excerpt":"<p>Executive Account Director <\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12783,"title":"James Orton","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/james-orton\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/profile-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>James is a Data Scientist based in Australia. Outside of all things AI, James likes to ride bicycles, sometimes with both his kids<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4094,"title":"Jan Gamec","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jan-gamec\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jan_gamec-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Jan Gamec","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":8463,"title":"Jan Sterba","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jan-sterba\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jan_sterba-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div>Jan is a software engineer with a passion for clean and intelligent code. His main focus is Java but he has a ton of experience with Ruby, R and other technologies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For most of his career, Jan used to develop web applications and B2B software until he found himself in machine learning and data processing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In his free time he likes to run long distances, hike even longer, cook, eat and drink.<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12602,"title":"Jan S\u00fdkora","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jan-sykora\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jan-Sykora-240x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p>Jan is a Software Engineer at H2O.ai. His main focus is on back-end development. He has experience with graph database development, big data processing and web application development in multiple domains such as banking, healthcare or pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>Jan has studied informatics at Czech Technical University in Prague where he\u00a0graduated from Web and Software\u00a0Engineering\u00a0with Master's degree. Jan has also spent one year abroad in the US where he worked and studied.<\/p>\n<p>In his spare\u00a0time Jan likes to do sports, traveling and explaining to non-Czech speaking people why \"Jan\" and \"Honza\" are the same names but different at the same time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":14000,"title":"Jaroslav Keznikl","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jaroslav-keznikl\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jaroslav-214x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Jaroslav Keznikl is a Senior Software Engineer at H2O.ai with passion for building reliable cloud infrastructure and a determined advocate of SRE\/DevOps principles.<br \/>\nPrior to H2O, he spent over 5 years as (Sr.) SWE\/SRE at Google Cloud, building and operating cloud services at scale and promoting SRE\/DevOps principles within the organization.<br \/>\nJaroslav got his Ph.D. in Distributed Systems at the Charles University in Prague, focusing on dynamic, ad-hoc software architectures.<br \/>\nWhen not at work, he is a husband, father, and a big music fan.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4096,"title":"Jeff Fohl","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jeff-fohl\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jeff_fohl.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Jeff Fohl","excerpt":"<p>Jeff Fohl is a UI Engineer at H2O. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, with over 20 years of experience in developing for the Web and other computing platforms, he brings together the worlds of art, design, and engineering. His work at H2O is focused on making machine learning more usable, intuitive, and natural.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining H2O, Jeff split his time between building Single Page Applications for various clients, and participating in the community surrounding Numenta\u2019s machine intelligence platform NuPIC, where he developed a passion for machine intelligence and open source software.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff was also previously the Creative Director at GTxcel, where he helped design and build hundreds of magazine websites, as well as the content management system that powered them \u2013 Rivista.<\/p>\n<p>He has also held leadership roles in the San Francisco non-profit art and design communities.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4098,"title":"Jeff Gambera","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jeff-gambera\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jeff_gambera-1.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Jeff is a well traveled DevOps engineer, Jeff has spent time working across many industries and functional roles.<br \/>\nBefore H2O, Jeff has worked on everything from professional touring with a famous rock band to writing code and procedures<br \/>\nfor the US Army. Most recently Jeff has focused on Big Data Platforms and DevOps automation. Having worked for<br \/>\nseveral SaaS companies, Jeff brings operational discipline and deep knowledge of systems engineering across the Operations ecosystem. Jeff has designed off-site and international Data Centers as well as built embedded linux systems for commercial deployment, and run 24\/7 on call support for several SaaS. Besides being a storage engineer, a network engineer and team focused developer, Jeff also professes a love new things, like Linux containers and especially Docker.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12089,"title":"Jesse Luebbert","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jesse-luebbert\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Jesse-L-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesse Luebbert is a Customer Data Scientist at H2O.ai where he helps customers and prospects understand how H2O.ai capabilities can be applied to their business challenges to realize the full benefit and impact of their investment in AI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to joining H2O.ai, Jesse held R&amp;D and customer facing roles at SAS Institute and was employed in the healthcare sector as a data scientist. He holds a BS in mathematics from Abilene Christian University and a MS in business analytics from Southern Methodist University.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4576,"title":"Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jishnu-bhattacharjee\/","term_categories":[{"id":137,"name":"Board of Directors","slug":"board-of-directors"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jishnu_bhattacharjee-1.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Jishnu Bhattacharjee","excerpt":"<p>Jishnu brings to Nexus several years of operating and investing expertise in hi-technology start-ups. He has invested in enterprise technology, mobile, and technology-enabled services companies and is interested in a wide range of start-ups. Jishnu\u2019s current board involvements include Druva, Helpshift, H2O.ai, Rancher Labs, Postman, Blueshift, Kaltura, and variety of other companies. His investments also include Mezi (acquired by American Express), Arkin (acquired by VMware), Cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), Gluster (acquired by Red Hat), and Elastic Box (acquired by Century Link).<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the VC industry, Jishnu held engineering management and product management roles at a communication systems start-up, Scintera Networks and a leading circuits and systems company, Maxim Integrated Products.<\/p>\n<p>Jishnu has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he ran the Venture Capital Club and co-led GSB Principal Investing Conference. Jishnu also holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BTech from IIT Kharagpur and is an inventor on more than a dozen US patents.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4100,"title":"Jo-Fai Chow","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jo-fai-chow\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jo_fai_chow.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Jo Fai Chow","excerpt":"<p>Jo-fai (or Joe) has multiple roles at H2O.ai. He is best known as the #360Selfie guy nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>On LinkedIn, he is the data science evangelist and community manager but everyone knows that his photography skills totally overshadow his data science knowledge these days. On Twitter, he sounds like a die-hard MATLAB fanboy with the handle @matlabulous (because MATLAB was his favourite tool at Uni). Since joining H2O.ai in 2016, Joe has delivered H2O talks\/workshops in 40+ cities around Europe and US. <\/p>\n<p>Before joining H2O, he was in the business intelligence team at Virgin Media where he developed data products to enable quick and smart business decisions. He also worked remotely for Domino Data Lab as a data science evangelist promoting products via blogging and giving talks at external events.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11442,"title":"Joby Joy","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/joby-joy\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/profile_pic-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":8968,"title":"John Howe","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/john-howe\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/HOWE-Headshot-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size: medium;\">John is a veteran of the technology industry having held several VP and C-level positions at startups and turnarounds. He has worked in, or run, every major functional area of a high tech company. He started his career as top salesperson for an international software company, and in recent years, he's enjoyed sales leadership positions with AI vendors.<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\nBeing a UK and US citizen, John has lived half his life on each \"side of the pond\". He enjoys yoga and reading. He doesn't enjoy running or swimming, but does them anyway to stay fit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12139,"title":"John Miller","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/john-miller\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/7h-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5343,"title":"John Spooner","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/john-spooner\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Spoons-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Director of Solution Engineering - EMEA<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4814,"title":"Jon Mckinney","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jon-mckinney\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2f6b10f.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4592,"title":"Jon Oslowski","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jon-oslowski\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-oslowski.png","featured_img_alt":"Jon Oslowski","excerpt":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Jon is the Chief Financial Officer for H2O.ai Inc. and has been with the Company since 2016. Jon has over 15 years of experience in various capacities in financial and accounting leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Before H2O.ai, Jon was VP of Finance at Datameer Inc. where he successfully raised $59 million in two rounds of financing between 2013 and 2015. Over the course of 5 years at Datameer, Jon managed significant year over year growth in bookings, headcount and OPEX. Before Datameer, Jon was Divisional Controller for Serious Energy, an energy management company with software and building materials divisions. Jon also spent 6 years in public accounting with CBIZ\/MHM, one of the top 10 accounting firms in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Jon\u2019s expertise includes financial accounting, financial analysis, forecasting, business modeling, software revenue recognition, financial reporting and oversight, and business plan implementation. While in public accounting Jon worked with various industries including manufacturing, real estate development, software, service industries, and non-profit organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Jon completed his Undergraduate Degree in Economics from Harvard University and Master\u2019s of Business Administration with a Graduate Certificate in Accounting from Westminster College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7535,"title":"Jon Oslowski, CFO","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jon-oslowski-2\/","term_categories":[{"id":138,"name":"Leadership Team","slug":"leadership-team"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jon-oslowski.png","featured_img_alt":"Jon Oslowski","excerpt":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Jon is the Chief Financial Officer for H2O.ai Inc. and has been with the Company since 2016. Jon has over 15 years of experience in various capacities in financial and accounting leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Before H2O.ai, Jon was VP of Finance at Datameer Inc. where he successfully raised $59 million in two rounds of financing between 2013 and 2015. Over the course of 5 years at Datameer, Jon managed significant year over year growth in bookings, headcount and OPEX. Before Datameer, Jon was Divisional Controller for Serious Energy, an energy management company with software and building materials divisions. Jon also spent 6 years in public accounting with CBIZ\/MHM, one of the top 10 accounting firms in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Jon\u2019s expertise includes financial accounting, financial analysis, forecasting, business modeling, software revenue recognition, financial reporting and oversight, and business plan implementation. While in public accounting Jon worked with various industries including manufacturing, real estate development, software, service industries, and non-profit organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Jon completed his Undergraduate Degree in Economics from Harvard University and Master\u2019s of Business Administration with a Graduate Certificate in Accounting from Westminster College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":"4","key_num":4},{"id":4816,"title":"Jorge Luis Hernandez Villapol","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/jorge-luis-hernandez-villapol\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/jorge-luis-hernandez-villapol.jpg","featured_img_alt":"jorge luis hernandez villapol","excerpt":"<p>Jorge Luis Hernandez Villapol, is a Software Engineer and Data Scientist at H2O. He comes from an Electronics Engineering background where the passion and excitement from the Mechatronics and Robotics field led him to AI and Intelligent Systems.<\/p>\n<p>He has a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from UNT and a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Electronics Engineering from the Simon Bolivar University (USB) in Caracas, Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Like many engineers, Jorge loves challenges and groundbreaking problems to solve. He also enjoys watching and traveling to sports events (F1, Soccer, Tennis) and the casual gaming sessions.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":6331,"title":"Joseph Granados","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/joseph-granados\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_1585-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p class=\"x_p1\">Joseph Granados is a Technical Support Engineer at H2O.ai.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">He has degrees in Mathematics and Statistics from Sonoma State University, where an interest in machine learning led him to be involved with multiple machine learning research projects for the Computer Science department. He\u2019s now focused on finding the best ways to design, train, and evaluate effective models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">In his spare time he enjoys watching and playing basketball.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4817,"title":"Josephine Wang","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/josephine-wang\/","term_categories":[{"id":218,"name":"Fellows","slug":"fellows"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/josephine-wang.png","featured_img_alt":"josephine wang","excerpt":"<p>Josephine Wang is the Head of Customer Experience at H2O, makers of H2O, the open source math and machine learning engine for big data. Josephine has 20 plus years experience and success in sales and customer relationship building. She is responsible for all new business development and management of client services for H2O. Prior to H2O, Josephine held key roles at Teradata and SAS where she acquired her passion for analytics and big data.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Josephine specialized in corporate governance and risk management at ISS and SunGard. She began her career in private client services at Bear Stearns and Co. in New York and holds a BS in Finance from the University of Delaware.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7541,"title":"Josephine Wang, H2O Fellow","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/josephine-wang-2\/","term_categories":[{"id":138,"name":"Leadership Team","slug":"leadership-team"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/josephine-wang.png","featured_img_alt":"josephine wang","excerpt":"<p>Josephine Wang is the Head of Customer Experience at H2O, makers of H2O, the open source math and machine learning engine for big data. Josephine has 20 plus years experience and success in sales and customer relationship building. She is responsible for all new business development and management of client services for H2O. Prior to H2O, Josephine held key roles at Teradata and SAS where she acquired her passion for analytics and big data.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Josephine specialized in corporate governance and risk management at ISS and SunGard. She began her career in private client services at Bear Stearns and Co. in New York and holds a BS in Finance from the University of Delaware.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":"9","key_num":9},{"id":13206,"title":"Juergen Edlich","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/juergen-edlich\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200218_203407-187x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4820,"title":"Justin Loyola","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/justin-loyola\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/justin-loyola.png","featured_img_alt":"justin loyola","excerpt":"<p>Justin is a Software Engineer at H2O originally from the Bay Area. Justin earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego and his J.D. from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. His core proficiencies are in API and UI development and has interests in Machine Learning, Go, Rust, and Angular.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7638,"title":"Karthik Aaravabhoomi","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/karthik-aaravabhoomi\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/karthik-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div>Karthik leads the AI and Data Products at H2O. Karthik comes to H2O with extensive experience in Financial Industry where he spearheaded modernization of data platforms and delivering data products such as Maser Data Management (MDM) and Real time Intelligence for Cyber Security. He brings a wealth of expertise in product management, data products leveraging AI and real time solutions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In his spare time, Karthik enjoys being outdoors and plays Cricket on the weekends, he also enjoys dabbling in photography and music.<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5307,"title":"Karthik Guruswamy","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/karthik-guruswamy\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0533-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Karthik is a Principal Pre-sales Solutions Architect with H2O. In his role, Karthik works with customers to define, architect and deploy H2O\u2019s AI solutions in production to bring AI\/ML initiatives to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>Karthik is a \u201cbusiness first\u201d data scientist. His expertise and passion have always been around building game-changing solutions - by using an eclectic combination of algorithms, drawn from different domains. He has published 50+ blogs on \u201call things data science\u201d in Linked-in, Forbes and Medium publishing platforms over the years for the business audience and speaks in vendor data science conferences. He also holds multiple patents around Desktop Virtualization, Ad networks and was a co-founding member of two startups in silicon valley.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4822,"title":"Karthik Kannappan","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/karthik-kannappan\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/H2o_KK_headshot.png","featured_img_alt":"H2o KK headshot","excerpt":"<p>Karthik Kannappan is a data scientist and analytics engineer at H2o.ai, where he works with customers across different domains to bring the power of machine learning to improve business outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his life at H2o, he was a software engineer at Juniper networks, building machine learning models to determine whether software was malicious\/not.<\/p>\n<p>Karthik has a master\u2019s degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and fully credits UMass for getting him super interested in machine learning, statistics, genetic programming, software engineering and everything in-between.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4824,"title":"Kathy Lee","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/kathy-lee\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kathy-lee.jpg","featured_img_alt":"kathy lee","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5037,"title":"Kerry O'Shea","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/kerry-oshea\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/kerry-o-shea-1.png","featured_img_alt":"kerry o shea","excerpt":"<p>Kerry O'Shea is Vice President of Customer Experience at H2O. Kerry has 20 plus years experience and success in sales, sales management and client relationship management. She is responsible for new business development at H2O.  Prior to H2O, Kerry held key roles at Equifax, SAS, and Experian, where she supported major initiatives in predictive analytics. Kerry holds a BA in Political Science and a Master's Degree in international Relations, both, from St. John's University in New York City. <\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":8971,"title":"Kim Montgomery","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/kim-montgomery\/","term_categories":[{"id":219,"name":"Kaggle Grandmasters","slug":"kaggle-grandmasters"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/montgomery_photo-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Kim has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, with a background in both predictive modeling and differential equations. 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Her background is equally diverse. She received her B.A in geophysics at UC Berkeley and earned her M.S. in geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining H2O, Lauren worked as a science reporter through Science Magazine\u2019s Mass Media Fellowship, and a content producer for an adventure startup.<\/p>\n<p>In her free time, Lauren can be found mountain biking (trying but failing to avoid poison oak), rock climbing, or surfing.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4591,"title":"Leland Wilkinson","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/leland-wilkinson\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/leland_wilkinson.png","featured_img_alt":"leland wilkinson","excerpt":"<p>Leland Wilkinson is Chief Scientist at H2O and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard in 1966, an S.T.B. degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1969, and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1975. Wilkinson wrote the SYSTAT statistical package and founded SYSTAT Inc. in 1984. After the company grew to 50 employees, he sold SYSTAT to SPSS in 1994 and worked there for ten years on research and development of visualization systems. Wilkinson subsequently worked at Skytree and Tableau before joining H2O.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has won best speaker award at the National Computer Graphics Association and the Youden prize for best expository paper in the statistics journal Technometrics. He has served on the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Research Council and is a member of the Boards of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM). In addition to authoring journal articles, the original SYSTAT computer program and manuals, and patents in visualization and distributed analytic computing, Wilkinson is the author (with Grant Blank and Chris Gruber) of Desktop Data Analysis with SYSTAT. 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Her expertise lies in Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a focus on Information Extraction.<\/div>\n<div class=\"m_-7980994804765610947m_-8050040306749783217gmail-\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_-7980994804765610947m_-8050040306749783217gmail-\">Prior to joining H2O Lena worked in MSD (Merck in US) as an NLP Capability Lead. 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I spent eight years in the the railway industry and after fully\u00a0realizing my passion I switched tracks and started enjoying career as a software engineer. \u00a0I feel most comfortable in backend and\u00a0operations.<\/i><i><br \/>\nIn my free-time I am most passionate about video games and yoga.<\/i><\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":14982,"title":"Lucas Castro","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/lucas-castro\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/lucas_castro_headshot-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div>Lucas started his career as a designer, and quickly progressed into increasingly technical roles. Nowadays, he applies his 12+ years of experience in both disciplines to create highly usable, accessible, and performant user interfaces. And as an engineer, he also loves to build tools that empowers him and his teammates to create better interfaces, in a more efficient\u00a0manner.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In his spare time, he can be found playing (strategy) board games with his friends, spending time with his family, or trying to stay fit with his home gym.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12459,"title":"Lukasz Werenkowicz","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/lukasz-werenkowicz\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/lukasz-pic-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Software developer and architect with 10+ years of experience. 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He holds a Bsc in accounting Finance from the University of Macedonia in Greece and an Msc in Risk Management from the University of Southampton. He has obtained\u00a0 his PhD in machine learning at University College London (UCL) with a focus on ensemble modelling. He has worked in both marketing and credit sectors in the UK Market and has led many analytics\u2019 projects with various themes including: Acquisition, Retention, Recommenders, Uplift, fraud detection, portfolio optimisation and more. He is the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kazanovaforanalytics.com\/software.html\">KazAnova<\/a>, a project made in Java for quick credit scoring\u00a0 as well as is the creator of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kaz-Anova\/StackNet\">StackNet<\/a> Meta-Modelling Framework. \u00a0Marios\u2019 LinkedIn profile can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mariosmichailidis\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0with more information about what he is working on now or past projects.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11204,"title":"Mark Bakker","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/mark-bakker\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/6ae6084f-deda-4805-bd68-450744f5a2ef-1-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Mark Bakker is a Senior Solutions Engineer and a strong believer in AI, provided it is implemented responsibly. 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After graduation he move to Tokyo to work as a researcher at Fujitsu Laboratories on machine learning and NLP projects, where he is still currently based.<\/p>\n<p>In his spare time he tries to be part of the IT community by organising, attending and speaking at conferences and meet ups.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4834,"title":"Mathias M\u00fcller","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/mathias-muller\/","term_categories":[{"id":219,"name":"Kaggle Grandmasters","slug":"kaggle-grandmasters"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mathias-Mu\u0308ller-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"Mathias Mu\u0308ller","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4835,"title":"Matt Dowle","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/matt-dowle\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Matt-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Matt is the main author of the data.table package in R. He has worked for some of the world\u2019s largest financial organizations: Lehman Brothers, Salomon Brothers, Citigroup, Concordia Advisors and Winton Capital. He is particularly pleased that data.table is also used outside Finance, for example Genomics where large and ordered datasets are also researched.<\/p>\n<p>Matt has been programming in S\/R for 15 years, knows C pretty well and holds a first class BSc in Applied Maths and Computing from Warwick University, U.K.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":14741,"title":"Matt Motoki","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/matt-motoki\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/matt_motoki-rotated-1-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Matt is passionate about data science and machine learning. He is an avid Kaggler and current Competitions Master. During his free time, he has helped to create and organize the Hawaii Machine Learning Meetup and has also developed a board game called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mattmotoki.github.io\/cell-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mattmotoki.github.io\/cell-division\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591153444460000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEVePcN0tUlyk4ph2vPdcpMSsoYSQ\">Cell Division<\/a>, complete with an AI opponent.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12313,"title":"Max Rau","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/max-rau\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Max-Rau-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Max is a software engineer with in-depth experience in test\/deployment automation, networking, fault analysis, and operations. Most recently he designed, implemented, and evaluated a test automation framework for Nokia\u2019s Cloud Packet Core (CPC) product with a global dev team, selecting a tech stack and developing a framework for end-to-end, integration and unit tests on a complex distributed software product. Max has experience developing and integrating test automation into a broader CI\/CD toolchain, as well as automating artifact creation and deployment. He grew up on Canada\u2019s East coast in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he completed a bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Science at Dalhousie University.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":13121,"title":"Maximilian Jeblick","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/maximilian-jeblick\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/T0329MHH6-USMQTSFKK-04afb12d9400-512-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div>Maximilian is a Data Scientist at H2O. Previously, he co-founded\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/khumbu.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/khumbu.ai&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1581616835042000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0Ud5r08317DILttdHqwEwhve0tw\">khumbu.ai<\/a>, where he implemented machine and deep learning solutions in various fields, ranging from semantic document clustering to automated vaccine discovery.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Maximilian holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from LMU Munich, where he focused on the<br \/>\nstatistical description of quantum many-body systems.<br \/>\nIn his spare time, Max likes to surf the river wave in Munich.<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":10134,"title":"Megan Chan","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/megan-chan\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/471D7A2D-0382-48A5-9AFC-BF86164B7BB3-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Sales Operations Intern and H2O.ai Academic Ambassador.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4837,"title":"Megan Kurka","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/megan-kurka\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/megan-kurka.png","featured_img_alt":"megan kurka","excerpt":"<p>Megan is a Customer Data Scientist at H2O. Prior to working at H2O, she worked as a Data Scientist building products driven by machine learning for B2B customers.<\/p>\n<p>She has experience working with customers across multiple industries, identifying common problems, and designing robust and automated solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Megan is based in New York City and holds a degree in Applied Mathematics. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and yoga.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4578,"title":"Michael Marks, Chairman & Founder at Katerra","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/michael-marks\/","term_categories":[{"id":137,"name":"Board of Directors","slug":"board-of-directors"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/michael_marks-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"michael marks","excerpt":"<p>Michael is the chairman and founder of Katerra. He is a founding partner of Riverwood Capital, a Menlo Park-based private equity firm. Prior to establishing Riverwood, he was a partner and senior advisor at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co. in 2006 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to KKR, Michael spent several years as CEO and then chairman of Flextronics International Ltd., building it into one of the largest technology companies in the world.<\/p>\n<p>He is a director of Schlumberger Limited, The Melt, Lolli &amp; Pops, Canary, H2O.ai, Berkeley Lights, and The Juilliard School.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12787,"title":"Michael Proksch","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/12787\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Michael_H2O-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael is Senior Director Data Science, Customer Success at H2O.ai. He has several years of experience\u00a0in developing and applying analytics and machine learning solutions for use cases in business development and strategy, marketing and customer relationships. Prior to H2o.ai, Michael worked in healthcare and in consulting, managed international projects and teams providing transformation strategies, corporate consulting and training as well as data science and analytics solutions for the global fortune 100 companies in Europe, Asia, and the USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael holds a Ph.D. in Economics and was researcher and lecturer at universities in Germany, Australia and Singapore.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4838,"title":"Michal Kurka","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/michal-kurka\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/michal-kurka.png","featured_img_alt":"michal kurka","excerpt":"<p>Michal is a software engineer with a passion for crafting code in Java and other JVM languages.<\/p>\n<p>He started his professional career as a J2EE developer and spent his time building all sorts of web and desktop applications. Four years ago he truly found himself when he entered the world of big data processing and Hadoop. Since then he enjoys working with distributed platforms and implementing scalable applications on top of them.<\/p>\n<p>He holds a Master of Computer Science form Charles University in Prague. His field of study was Discrete Models and Algorithms with focus on Optimization.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4589,"title":"Michal Malohlava","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/michal-malohlava\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/michal_malohlava.png","featured_img_alt":"michal malohlava","excerpt":"<p>Michal is a geek, developer, Java, Linux, programming languages enthusiast developing software for over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>He obtained PhD from the Charles University in Prague in 2012 and post-doc at Purdue University.<\/p>\n<p>During his studies he was interested in construction of not only distributed but also embedded and real-time component-based systems using model-driven methods and domain-specific languages. He participated in design and development of various systems including SOFA and Fractal component systems or jPapabench control system.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7536,"title":"Michal Malohlava, VP Engineering","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/michal-malohlava-vp-engineering\/","term_categories":[{"id":138,"name":"Leadership Team","slug":"leadership-team"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/michal_malohlava.png","featured_img_alt":"michal malohlava","excerpt":"<p>Michal is a geek, developer, Java, Linux, programming languages enthusiast developing software for over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>He obtained PhD from the Charles University in Prague in 2012 and post-doc at Purdue University.<\/p>\n<p>During his studies he was interested in construction of not only distributed but also embedded and real-time component-based systems using model-driven methods and domain-specific languages. He participated in design and development of various systems including SOFA and Fractal component systems or jPapabench control system.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":"7","key_num":7},{"id":4839,"title":"Michal Ra\u0161ka","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/michal-raska\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/michal_raska.jpg","featured_img_alt":"michal raska","excerpt":"<p>Michal completed his Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Computer Science at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, and his Master\u2019s Degree in Software Systems at Charles University in Prague, Czechia. At H2O.ai Michal works on the build and test infrastructure and also as the software engineer on the H2O-3. In the past he has worked as the server developer in a small IT company in Bratislava.<\/p>\n<p>When he\u2019s not working, he loves to tinker with everything that can fly and can be remotely controlled.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":6911,"title":"Michelle Tanco","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/michelle-tanco\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tanco_headshot-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div>Michelle is a Customer Solutions Engineer &amp; Data Scientist for H2O.ai. Prior to H2O she worked as a Senior Data Science Consultant for Teradata, focused on leading analytics projects to solve cross-industry business problems.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Her background is in pure math and computer science and she is passionate about applying these skills to answer real world questions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When not coding or thinking of analytics, Michelle can be found hanging out with her dog or playing ukulele.<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":14605,"title":"Minchul Chae","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/minchul-chae\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MinchulChae-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>I have been a front-end engineer for 10+ years so far. Before I started my career as a front-end engineer, I was an architect and a full-stack engineer for many years. I like Jazz, Hip-hop, R&amp;B music, snowboarding and travelling.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12216,"title":"Mohamed Asni","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/mohamed-asni\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/prof_photo.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>As a fully bilingual software engineer, Mohamed's professional experience spans a broad range of computing science and development activities. Mohamed has performed software application development, software testing, and even research in machine interactions designing voice recognition technologies. Some of his past responsibilities have included academic research in machine learning and lead developer. His most recent engagements have touched on a gamut of image processing for defense technologies and natural language processing models for Governance issues &amp; Risk identification. Other of his notable works include his engagements in the context of unsupervised and semi-supervised data segmentation pipelines for predictive models, and big data analysis. Mohamed was born in Nairobi, Kenya, grew up and completed his secondary education in Casablanca, Morocco, and moved to Ottawa, Canada in 2013 where he completed his bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4841,"title":"Navdeep Gill","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/navdeep-gill\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/navdeep-gill.png","featured_img_alt":"navdeep gill","excerpt":"<p>Navdeep Gill is a Senior Data Scientist\/Software Engineer at H2O.ai where he focuses mainly on machine learning interpretability and previously focused on GPU accelerated machine learning, automated machine learning, and the core H2O-3 platform.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining H2O.ai, Navdeep worked at Cisco focusing on data science and software development. Before that Navdeep was a researcher\/analyst in several neuroscience labs at the following institutions: California State University, East Bay, University of California, San Francisco, and Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Navdeep graduated from California State University, East Bay with a M.S. in Computational Statistics, a B.S. in Statistics, and a B.A. in Psychology (minor in Mathematics).<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Navdeep_Gill_"},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12006,"title":"Neema Mashayekhi","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/neema-mashayekhi\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Neema-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Neema is a Data Scientist at H2O. He has a PhD in chemical engineering from Northwestern University. Prior to joining H2O, Neema worked at Intel for 7 years. He has data mining experience in oil &amp; gas, semiconductors, manufacturing, sales, and marketing (brand, retail, social media).<\/p>\n<div>In his spare time, Neema enjoys traveling, hiking, and cooking<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4843,"title":"Nicholas Png","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/nicholas-png\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Nick.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"Nick","excerpt":"<p>Nicholas Png is a Partnerships Software Engineer at H2O.ai. Prior to working at H2O, he worked as a Quality Assurance Software Engineer, developing software automation testing. Nicholas holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and has experience working with customers across multiple industries, identifying common problems, and designing robust, automated solutions.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4844,"title":"Nidhi Mehta","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/nidhi-mehta\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nidhi-mehta.png","featured_img_alt":"nidhi mehta","excerpt":"<p>Nidhi is a Hacker at H2O. She has a background in Physics. Nidhi is an avid H2O and R user with a keen interest in large scale data analysis and machine learning algorithms.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":10058,"title":"Nikhil Kurup","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/nikhil-kurup\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nikhil-photo3-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Nikhil Kurup is a Data Scientist with a strong background in Enterprise Architecture and Integration. He works with customers to find the right combination of data, algorithm and design that can reduce complex business problems into meaningful outcomes. Prior to H2O.ai, he led a team of Data Scientists at Teradata spanning multiple industries and before that he helped build a chatbot platform at Kore.ai. With more than 18 years of consulting experience he has a mix of domain, technology and data experience. His areas of expertise include Machine Learning\/AI, NLP, Bots and Automation and Enterprise Architecture and he holds a Masters Degree in Data Science from UC Berkeley.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">When away from work, he likes to spend time with his family and enjoys traveling. Always a tinkerer, these days he is attempting to reduce his digital footprint and to setup a DIY home automation system.<\/span><\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4845,"title":"Nikhil Shekhar","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/nikhil-shekhar\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nikhil-shekhar.png","featured_img_alt":"nikhil shekhar","excerpt":"<p>Nikhil is a Machine Leaning Engineer at H2O.ai. He is currently working on our automatic machine learning platform, Driverless AI. He graduated from University of Buffalo majoring in Artificial Intelligence and is interested in developing scalable machine learning algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the Master\u2019s course, he has worked for over 4 years for companies like Impetus technologies, Cognizant \u2013 Center of Excellence, on Big data technologies like Apache Spark, Hadoop, Map-reduce, HBase, Hive, Solr to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>In his spare time, Nikhil enjoys travelling, exploring places and driving.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":9628,"title":"Niki Athanasiadou","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/niki-athanasiadou\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Niki-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p class=\"x_p1\">Niki is a Customer Data Scientist at H2O AI with a passion for data-driven knowledge.\u00a0<span class=\"x_s1\">Coming from a PhD on the microscopic universe of biomolecules, Niki is bringing scientific thinking to real-world big data<\/span>. Niki has experience in healthcare among other sectors and loves to work in interdisciplinary teams. Her proudest moments are winning the Young Biochemist of the Year award by the British Biochemical Society and the Open Data data-science project award from the Office of the Mayor of New York city.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">Niki is a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie and will never turn down an offer to explore a new art exhibit.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5041,"title":"Oleksiy Kononenko","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/oleksiy-kononenko\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Oleksiy-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"Oleksiy","excerpt":"<p>Senior Software Developer<\/p>\n<p>Oleksiy is a maker scientist and hacker at H2O.ai, focusing on highly optimized algorithms for machine learning and data analysis. He holds M.S., summa cum laude, and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from National University of Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2009, Oleksiy was selected as a research fellow by CERN and contributed to R&amp;D for Large Hadron Collider and next generation of high energy particle accelerators. In 2013 he joined SLAC and Stanford University to develop high performance simulation suite for 3D multi-physics modeling. Oleksiy authored more than 60 scientific papers, was an invited speaker at major international conferences, prominent institutions and companies worldwide. In his free time he enjoys snowboarding, playing soccer and basketball, guitar and drums, What? Where? When? and Jeopardy!<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7783,"title":"Olivier Grellier","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/olivier-grellier\/","term_categories":[{"id":219,"name":"Kaggle Grandmasters","slug":"kaggle-grandmasters"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image_2-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Olivier graduated from Supelec, France and holds a PhD in Signal Processing. He worked in the Airline IT business at Amadeus as a C\/C++ developer\u00a0then joined the London branch as a team leader. In Capgemini, he worked with clients in the public sector as a senior\u00a0project manager.<br \/>\nOlivier then moved to trading the commodity markets, building and\u00a0 backtesting trading systems, and progressively started using more\u00a0 machine learning tools. His data science journey really began on Kaggle\u00a0 where he could practice and improve his skills on various competitions\u00a0and datasets.<br \/>\nIn the last year, he worked for caring.com using machine learning and\u00a0data mining to help families find communities for their parents.<br \/>\nOlivier loves spending his spare time in the yard where he grows organic\u00a0apples, peers, grapes and strawberries. He also produces his own special\u00a0jam.<\/p>\n<p>He's really excited about joining H2O as a senior data scientist.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4847,"title":"Ondrej Bilek","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/ondrej-bilek\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ondrej-bilek.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"ondrej bilek","excerpt":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Ondrej studied Computer Science at Czech Technical University in Prague and is currently finishing his Master's in System Programming. For his thesis, he worked on processing and visualizing space radiation data from ESA's satellite in Low Earth Orbit. Ondrej's number one tool is Go, but he enjoys working with other compiled languages as well. At H2O.ai, Ondrej works on Enterprise Steam and other projects.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">In his spare time, Ondrej likes traveling, videography and sports like cycling, skiing or running.<\/span><\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":14843,"title":"Ondrej Nekola","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/ondrej-nekola\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/P1191052-256x240.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Ondrej is a software engineer who likes Java, Scala, Haskell and FP.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He developed desktop applications (tooling for mobile devices), webs and web services, and after big data programming, he finally got to AI and machine learning he'd liked in university.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His masters degree is in evolutionary and theoretical biology (mainly doing computer simulations, of course). He likes mutations in nature and unit tests but not in his data structures.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(He uses Arch, btw.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":9437,"title":"Parul Pandey","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/parul-pandey\/","term_categories":[{"id":219,"name":"Kaggle Grandmasters","slug":"kaggle-grandmasters"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Parul_Pandey-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Parul is a Data Science Evangelist here at H2O.ai. She combines Data Science , evangelism and community in her work. Her emphasis is to spread the information about H2O and Driverless AI to as many people as possible, She is also an active writer and has contributed towards various national and international publications.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4848,"title":"Pasha Stetsenko","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/pasha-stetsenko\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/pasha-stetsenko.png","featured_img_alt":"pasha stetsenko","excerpt":"<p>Pasha is a Hacker Scientist at H2O.ai. He holds an MS in Applied Physics and Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, an MA in Economics from New Economic School (Moscow), and a PhD in Economics (econometrics) from Stanford University. During his education he obtained knowledge in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics and Econometrics.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to coming to H2O.ai, Pasha was working at a stealth-level machine learning startup Machinify.com as a data scientist \/ frontend engineer; before that as an engineer at Facebook; and before as a senior quantitative analyst at a business consulting company Keystone Strategy, working on big data analysis.<\/p>\n<p>In his free time, Pasha enjoys spending time with his family, reading, and solving Project Euler problems (level 18).<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4852,"title":"Patrick Hall","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/patrick-hall\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/patrick-hall-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"patrick hall","excerpt":"<p>Patrick Hall is a senior director for data science products at H2O.ai where he focuses mainly on model interpretability. Patrick is also currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at George Washington University, where he teaches graduate classes in data mining and machine learning.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining H2O.ai, Patrick held global customer facing roles and R &amp; D research roles at SAS Institute. He holds multiple patents in automated market segmentation using clustering and deep neural networks. Patrick was the 11th person worldwide to become a Cloudera certified data scientist. He studied computational chemistry at the University of Illinois before graduating from the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5366,"title":"Patrick Moran","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/patrick-moran\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Headshot-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Patrick is a Marketing Campaign Manager at H2O.ai. Prior to H2O.ai he was at DataTorrent, a big data startup, where he drove integrated marketing and demand generation programs. In his spare time, Patrick enjoys running, hiking, watching sports (Football, MMA, Basketball) and spending time with his wife and two kids as much as possible. 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He has a desire to grow the computing world by being a contributor to the open source community.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5044,"title":"Pavel Pscheidl","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/pavel-pschiedl\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Pavel-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Pavel","excerpt":"<p>Pavel is a machine learning engineer at H2O. Holding a master's degree in Applied Informatics, his main focus during his studies was applied statistics & stochastic methods, agent-based simulations and optimization. He joined a research team as a Ph.D. candidate while working on various problems like the effectiveness of fraud detection methods in highly-distributed systems. Due to his roots in computer science, his commercial focus was on enterprise Java systems and related standards. He also wrote a book in this field. In 2017, Pavel joined H2O's awesome team, abandoning all other activities, including research at the university. At H2O, he is proud of being able to leverage his passion for algorithms and optimization while diving deeper into statistics every single day.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7786,"title":"Peter Sollimo","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/peter-sollimo\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/PJS-Head-Shot-212x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Peter Sollimo comes to H2O.ai with over two decades of Information Technology success both as a vendor and a customer. He first experienced the power of forecasting and analytics when implementing a \u201cjust in time order creation\u201d solution as the Manager of Information Systems for Acosta in the late 1990s \u2014 the first IT-based profit center for that company. Following that Peter moved into Technical Sales and Account Executive roles with Informix (and IBM, post acquisition) focused on Data Management, Data Warehousing, and Analytics. In 2007 he made a (pre-IPO) move to Netezza where he was responsible for their most strategic Channel Sales relationships including Fuzzy Logix in-database analytics and a joint venture with Accenture and SAS. Subsequent to IBM\u2019s acquisition of Netezza Peter accepted the role as EVP of Sales for Fuzzy Logix where he \u00a0oversaw all sales activity including Strategic Alliances (notably with IBM and Teradata where he achieved a resale position on both partners price lists for Fuzzy Logix offerings and with Nvidia for the advancement of GPU-based analytics).\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Peter and his immediate family live in Northern Virginia outside of Washington DC He and his wife, Michel\u00e9, have a 27 year old son and a 7 year old daughter . . . yes, you read that correctly \u2014 we dropped Alex off at college freshman year and started all over with Eden Lily. 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She is responsible for recruitment and HR agenda of Prague office.<\/div>\n<div>Prior to this, she worked for personal agency and helped H2O.ai hire their first Prague employees, after some time she joined H2O.ai to recruit new candidates internally.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Petra holds an M.A degree in Anthropology from Charles University in Prague, having major in Human Ethology.<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":13765,"title":"Philipp Singer","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/philipp-singer\/","term_categories":[{"id":219,"name":"Kaggle Grandmasters","slug":"kaggle-grandmasters"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/phillip-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Philipp has won several Kaggle competitions and is as of this writing ranked 4th on the global competition leaderboard. 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Prithvi leads the design and development of \"Q\", H2O.ai's high scale exploratory data analysis and analytical application development platform.<\/p>\n<p>Prithvi has been with H2O.ai since its early days and has been responsible for several products including Driverless AI (our flagship automatic machine learning platform), Steam (distributed cluster management, model management and deployment for H2O), H2O.js (Javascript transpiler for H2O's distributed runtime), Play (on-demand cloud provisioning system for H2O), Flow (a hybrid GUI\/REPL\/Notebook for H2O) and Lightning (statistical graphics for H2O).<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Prithvi was an early engineer at Platfora, where he was responsible for the high performance interactive data visualization engine. 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His passion lies in solving real-life problems through Machine Learning and data sciences.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":6636,"title":"Sandip Sharma","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/sandip-sharma\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sandip-e1583902622738-245x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sandip is an entrepreneur and technology leader, who has a balance of work experience in both Financial Services Industry and Government. With +20 years of experience in business IT, Sandip thrives for developing and implementing innovative AI\/ML solutions to the Whole-of-Government and Financial Services Industry on emerging digital technologies.\u00a0He has Masters. Degree in Business IT \u2013 Financial Services, from Singapore Management University (SMU).<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11451,"title":"Sanyam Bhutani","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/sanyam-bhutani\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Sanyam-B-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Sanyam Bhutani is a Machine Learning Engineer and AI Content Creator at H2O.ai.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He is also an inc42, Economic Times recognized Machine Learning Practitioner. (link to the interviews: <a href=\"https:\/\/videos.inc42.com\/webinar\/freelancing-for-students-101-upskill-for-brighter-career-prospects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/videos.inc42.com\/webinar\/freelancing-for-students-101-upskill-for-brighter-career-prospects\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570905528449000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFC-ASsNtqlr9ocoXE_W0tfV-1EJQ\">inc42<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/services\/education\/massive-open-online-courses-have-got-a-second-wind\/articleshow\/65914966.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/services\/education\/massive-open-online-courses-have-got-a-second-wind\/articleshow\/65914966.cms&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570905528449000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHw2mah-dCcCDfsCminJao8SfrHFg\">Economic Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sanyam is an active Kaggler where he is a Triple Tier Expert, ranked in Global Top 1% in all categories as well as an active AI blogger on the medium, Hackernoon (Medium <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@init_27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/medium.com\/@init_27&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570905528450000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGQp8Kjd9r0WOASWHArdkxrduZrVQ\">Blog link<\/a>) with over 1 Million+ Views overall.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sanyam is also the host of Chai Time Data Science Podcast where he interviews top practitioners, researchers, and Kagglers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You can follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhutanisanyam1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhutanisanyam1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570905528450000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEeW20MFXXeMRok06UpLoLIOwiMhg\">Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/chaitimedatascience.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/chaitimedatascience.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570905528450000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGit_ieFipTrhPp9ebZCWOwXZaY5Q\">subscribe to his podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11282,"title":"Satish Maruvada","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/satish-maruvada\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Satish-Maruvada-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":10502,"title":"Saurabh Kumar","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/saurabh-kumar\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_7C84BC675F82-1-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5053,"title":"Sebastien Poirier","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/sebastien-poirier\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Sebastien-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Sebastien","excerpt":"<p>Principal Software Engineer<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11437,"title":"Shaikat Galib","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/shaikat-galib\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shaikat-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":6390,"title":"Shanshan Wang","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/shanshan-wang\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ssw_photo-1-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":10060,"title":"Shivam Bansal","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/shivam-bansal\/","term_categories":[{"id":219,"name":"Kaggle Grandmasters","slug":"kaggle-grandmasters"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1571785-kg-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div>Shivam is a\u00a0Data Scientist\u00a0at H2O.ai\u00a0and Kaggle Grandmaster in Kernels Section. He is the three times\u00a0winner of Kaggle's Data Science for Good Competition and winner of multiple other offline AI and Data Science\u00a0competitions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Shivam has extensive<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0cross-industry and hands-on\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">experience in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">building data science products. He has helped clients in the Insurance, Healthcare, Banking, and Retail domains to solve unstructured data science problems by building end to end pipelines and solutions.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Shivam really likes to work on all aspects of a data science project which includes both technical aspects as well as business aspects.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Shivam\u00a0obtained his masters degree in Business\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Analytics from National University of Singapore in 2019 and his bachelors was in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Computer Science<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. His\u00a0<\/span>LinkedIn profile can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shivambansal1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11837,"title":"Sneha Baskaran","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/11837\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20180624_214142__02__01-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Sneha is experienced with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry, IT, and is skilled in Talent Management, End to End Recruitment and Analytics hiring. Sneha is passionate about recruitment and\u00a0 everyday given the opportunity to live the purpose- to help people become better version of themselves and be a part in their career journey.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">She believes that learning is like scaling a topless mountain; it never ends because every time you think you have learned it all, you discover that there is something new you can master.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Apart from that, Sneha loves traveling around the world, and is a music lover and movie buff.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4584,"title":"Sri Ambati","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/srisatish-ambati\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sri-Hi-Res-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Sri Ambati is the CEO and Founder of H2O.ai where he has launched a growing movement to democratize AI for everyone. Sri is regularly consulted by business leaders to help develop strategies to help them embark on an AI transformation. He has successfully combined his strong vision to \u201cMake Your Company an AI Company\u201d with impressive technical credentials to help organizations in all industries \u2013 from finance to healthcare to retail and manufacturing \u2013 maximize the impact of their data on business results, and improve day-to-day life for people around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Sri has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2019\/08\/20\/h2oai-co-founder-ceo-on-companys-72point5-million-in-funding-led-by-gs.html\">featured on CNBC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/webreprints.djreprints.com\/56708.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the WSJ<\/a> discussing his AI vision, and was named a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datanami.com\/people-to-watch-2019\/\">Datanami Top People to Watch<\/a> in 2019.\u00a0 He is a regular speaker at AI, machine learning and big data conferences such as AI4Finance, Big Data LDN and H2O World.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to founding H2O.ai, Sri co-founded big data analytics startup Platfora (acquired by Workday), and held technical and executive roles at Datastax, Azul Systems and RightOrder. His academic career includes sabbaticals focused on theoretical neuroscience at Stanford and UC Berkeley.\u00a0 He holds an M.S. in math and computer science from the University of Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/srisatish"},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7539,"title":"Sri Ambati, CEO & Founder","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/srisatish-ambati-ceo-founder\/","term_categories":[{"id":137,"name":"Board of Directors","slug":"board-of-directors"},{"id":138,"name":"Leadership Team","slug":"leadership-team"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sri-Hi-Res-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Sri Ambati is the CEO and Founder of H2O.ai where he has launched a growing movement to democratize AI for everyone. Sri is regularly consulted by business leaders to help develop strategies to help them embark on an AI transformation. He has successfully combined his strong vision to \u201cMake Your Company an AI Company\u201d with impressive technical credentials to help organizations in all industries \u2013 from finance to healthcare to retail and manufacturing \u2013 maximize the impact of their data on business results, and improve day-to-day life for people around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Sri has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2019\/08\/20\/h2oai-co-founder-ceo-on-companys-72point5-million-in-funding-led-by-gs.html\">featured on CNBC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/webreprints.djreprints.com\/56708.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the WSJ<\/a> discussing his AI vision, and was named a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datanami.com\/people-to-watch-2019\/\">Datanami Top People to Watch<\/a> in 2019.\u00a0 He is a regular speaker at AI, machine learning and big data conferences such as AI4Finance, Big Data LDN and H2O World.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to founding H2O.ai, Sri co-founded big data analytics startup Platfora (acquired by Workday), and held technical and executive roles at Datastax, Azul Systems and RightOrder. His academic career includes sabbaticals focused on theoretical neuroscience at Stanford and UC Berkeley.\u00a0 He holds an M.S. in math and computer science from the University of Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":"1","key_num":1},{"id":10056,"title":"Srinivas Neppalli","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/srinivas-neppalli\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/srini-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5056,"title":"Stefan Pacinda","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/stefan-pacinda\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Stefan.jpg","featured_img_alt":"Stefan","excerpt":"<p>Senior Software Engineer<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":13074,"title":"Stephan Koch","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/stephan-koch\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_6541-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5553,"title":"Sudalai Rajkumar","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/sudalai-rajkumar\/","term_categories":[{"id":219,"name":"Kaggle Grandmasters","slug":"kaggle-grandmasters"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SRK-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Sudalai Rajkumar (aka SRK) is a Data Scientist at H2O.ai Inc, building Driverless AI, an automated machine learning platform. Prior to this, he was with Freshworks, Tiger Analytics and Global Analytics. He has solved a lot of interesting data science problems for various customers across the globe in multiple domains including finance, e-commerce, online advertising, health care, transportation, retail. He has worked on varied problems ranging from doing simple analysis on structured data to natural language processing and voice analytics in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from his day job, he takes part in various data science competitions to enhance his knowledge and has won several of them. He is a Kaggle Grandmaster in the Competitions & Kernels section. <\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":10072,"title":"Suren Mohanathas","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/suren-mohanathas\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_3004-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Suren Mohanathas is the Senior Director and Head of Engineering for Canada.\u00a0 Passionate about building engineering teams and enabling them to innovate and succeed.\u00a0 Still a learner, coder and maker at heart.\u00a0 In free time loves to travel with the family to as many destinations as possible and enjoys spending time with his wife and two children.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5615,"title":"Taylor Marrison","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/taylor-marrison\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TaylorMarrison-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Taylor is a Sales Development rep at H2O.ai based out of Denver, CO. With over 10 years of Sales &amp; Customer Service experience in the Software and Tech industries, she's excited to focus her efforts on growing Driverless AI for all. In her spare time, Taylor enjoys yoga and running during the weekdays, and heading to the Rocky Mountains for hiking adventures on the weekends.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":null,"name":null,"designation":null,"twitter":null},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11284,"title":"Theron Fritz","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/theron-fritz\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Theron-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5333,"title":"Thomas Ott","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/thomas-ott\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ott-bio-photo-1.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Tom is a Senior Customer Solutions Engineer for H2O.ai. He started his career in Engineering working for large transportation firms around the USA before transitioning to the startup world in 2014. He comes to H2O.ai from his own Data Science consultancy and RapidMiner. A gritty and seasoned Sales Engineer, he worked across Product Marketing and Community Development and learned how to solve complex customer problems. He's a natural born tinkerer that loves figuring things out and getting it done.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7969,"title":"Tim Nguyen","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/tim-nguyen\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tim-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4587,"title":"Tom Kraljevic","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/tom-kraljevic\/","term_categories":[{"id":218,"name":"Fellows","slug":"fellows"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tom_kraljevic.png","featured_img_alt":"tom kraljevic","excerpt":"<p>Tom is VP of Customer and Pre-Sales Engineering at H2O &amp; key to the magic of engineering &amp; customer happiness.<\/p>\n<p>A quintessential team member \u2013 Tom is an extraordinary blend of technical genius, customer focus and management by example.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining H2O, Tom was Co-founder &amp; CTO at Luminix, where he and the team developed a cutting-edge offline mobile application for Salesforce users. This involved a healthy blend of focusing on the user-experience along with a deep-dive in various technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Luminix, Tom was a Principal Engineer at Azul Systems, where he worked in both the JVM and System Software teams. Tom served as the technical leader for the distributed management application team, appliance security and tools for distributed debugging.<\/p>\n<p>Tom\u2019s experience at systems and chip startup companies involved straddling the hardware-software boundary.<\/p>\n<p>Tom led pre-silicon verification infrastructure development for a terabit networking switch fabric chipset at Abrizio (acquired by PMC-Sierra). He also developed architectural CPU simulators, debuggers and toolchains at Chromatic Research (acquired by ATI). Tom got his start in technology at Intel, spending internships and co-ops in both the Portland (MD6) and Santa Clara (MD7) microprocessor design groups.<\/p>\n<p>A lesser-known fact about Tom: Finding the now-famous Pentium floating-point divide (FDIV) bug while at Intel using the testing harness and methodology he developed (several months before it was independently discovered outside Intel, and subsequently gained worldwide attention).<\/p>\n<p>Tom has an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign), and a BSE degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan (at Ann Arbor).<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7540,"title":"Tom Kraljevic, H2O Fellow","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/tom-kraljevic-h2o-ai-fellow\/","term_categories":[{"id":138,"name":"Leadership Team","slug":"leadership-team"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tom_kraljevic.png","featured_img_alt":"tom kraljevic","excerpt":"<p>Tom is VP of Customer and Pre-Sales Engineering at H2O &amp; key to the magic of engineering &amp; customer happiness.<\/p>\n<p>A quintessential team member \u2013 Tom is an extraordinary blend of technical genius, customer focus and management by example.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining H2O, Tom was Co-founder &amp; CTO at Luminix, where he and the team developed a cutting-edge offline mobile application for Salesforce users. This involved a healthy blend of focusing on the user-experience along with a deep-dive in various technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Luminix, Tom was a Principal Engineer at Azul Systems, where he worked in both the JVM and System Software teams. Tom served as the technical leader for the distributed management application team, appliance security and tools for distributed debugging.<\/p>\n<p>Tom\u2019s experience at systems and chip startup companies involved straddling the hardware-software boundary.<\/p>\n<p>Tom led pre-silicon verification infrastructure development for a terabit networking switch fabric chipset at Abrizio (acquired by PMC-Sierra). He also developed architectural CPU simulators, debuggers and toolchains at Chromatic Research (acquired by ATI). Tom got his start in technology at Intel, spending internships and co-ops in both the Portland (MD6) and Santa Clara (MD7) microprocessor design groups.<\/p>\n<p>A lesser-known fact about Tom: Finding the now-famous Pentium floating-point divide (FDIV) bug while at Intel using the testing harness and methodology he developed (several months before it was independently discovered outside Intel, and subsequently gained worldwide attention).<\/p>\n<p>Tom has an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign), and a BSE degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan (at Ann Arbor).<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":"10","key_num":10},{"id":13403,"title":"Tom\u00e1\u0161 Fryda","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/tomas-fryda\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-10-at-10.25.53-AM-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Tom\u00e1\u0161 is a curious software engineer with strong background in machine learning and data science.<\/p>\n<div>For his bachelor\u2019s he studied computer science at Czech<\/div>\n<div>Technical University. His bachelor\u2019s thesis was about neuro-evolution algorithms, which convinced him to specialise in knowledge engineering for his master\u2019s degree. The topic of his master\u2019s thesis dealt with scalability of ensemble models and their anytime performance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After graduation he worked as a data scientist in B2B pricing company and as a data scientist, ML engineer and team leader in an industrial AI startup.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He likes to spend his free time with his family and his Aussie shepherd Pixel. When he is not reading ML related papers, he is probably reading about abstract algebra, category theory, functional programming, and cooking.<\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":9723,"title":"Tom\u00e1\u0161 Pastorek","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/tomas-pastorek\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tomas-P-240x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p><span class=\"\">Tomas holds a master degree in software engineering. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">During his studies, he spent four years creating software which helps in leukemia research. After graduation, before joining H2O, he worked for a year and a half as a backend engineer on a cloud-based architecture CRM project for the German clients.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">Outside work his biggest passion is skiing, racquet sports, and strategy games.<\/span><\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11326,"title":"Tomasz Cichoszewski","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/tomasz-cichoszewski\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Tomasz-C.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<blockquote><p>Working in software development for cca 5 years. From e-learning, by security, then automotive, financial sector to AI industry. He as a BS in Computer Science in Poznan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>He is a fan of clean code and end to end testing, and likes to learn new frameworks and languages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12319,"title":"Travis Couture","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/travis-couture\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/couture_headshot-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p><span class=\"il\">Travis<\/span>\u00a0is a Solutions Engineer with undergraduate degrees in Biology and Chemistry and a Masters degree in Bioinformatics. He enjoys hiking and rock climbing and is originally\u00a0from the Pittsburgh area.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":9181,"title":"Trushant Kalyanpur","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/trushant-kalyanpur\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/trushant-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Trushant is a Data Scientist experienced at developing machine and deep learning models for a wide range of applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Prior to joining H2O, he worked at Intel as a Data Scientist in the Customer Quality team for 3 years and as a Hardware Design and Verification\u00a0Micro-Architect working on Intel Graphics for 10 years. In his spare time he enjoys taking part in Kaggle competitions and tinkering \u00a0with Raspberry Pi and Arduinos.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":5514,"title":"Vaclav Belak","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/vaclav-belak\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/profil-ck-gs-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Vaclav (or Vasek) is a Data Scientist with more than 10 years of experience in various IT roles - both academic and industrial. After completing his masters in Cognitive Science &amp; Intelligent Systems, he researched graph mining and social media analytics as a PhD and postdoc at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway, Ireland. Then he joined MSD (\u201cMerck\u201d in US) to develop analytical and optimisation models mostly in the drug safety, biological processes, and manufacturing supply chain domains.<\/p>\n<p>Vaclav\u2019s professional interests include machine learning, text mining &amp; NLP, optimisation, privacy, R, Python, and Scala. When not delving into those, he\u2019s with his wife and two kids hiking or biking somewhere or trying to persuade them that rock climbing rocks.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":null,"name":null,"designation":null,"twitter":null},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11287,"title":"Valery Dolotin","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/valery-dolotin\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/VD-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<div>-\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldscientific.com\/author\/Dolotin?target=bookTitleSearch&amp;content=bookTitle&amp;sortBy=Earliest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.worldscientific.com\/author\/Dolotin?target%3DbookTitleSearch%26content%3DbookTitle%26sortBy%3DEarliest&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572559799404000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEXzh2EUWZ8ezJsD1oyHgie-FaUQQ\">https:\/\/www.worldscientific.<wbr \/>com\/author\/Dolotin?target=<wbr \/>bookTitleSearch&amp;content=<wbr \/>bookTitle&amp;sortBy=Earliest<\/a>\u00a0<span class=\"im\"><br \/>\n-\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/front.math.ucdavis.edu\/search?a=Dolotin&amp;t=&amp;q=&amp;c=&amp;n=25&amp;s=Abstracts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/front.math.ucdavis.edu\/search?a%3DDolotin%26t%3D%26q%3D%26c%3D%26n%3D25%26s%3DAbstracts&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572559799404000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG6hUD2JxCSwCURhcPrDJnLcGt1Sg\">http:\/\/front.math.ucdavis.<wbr \/>edu\/search?a=Dolotin&amp;t=&amp;q=&amp;c=&amp;<wbr \/>n=25&amp;s=Abstracts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/327330604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/vimeo.com\/327330604&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572559799404000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEyZLDGv57-AmUb7TAfdoWrg6KDTQ\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/327330604<\/a><br \/>\n-\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/327337673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/vimeo.com\/327337673&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572559799404000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGgcvZPk9A_4blGa5Noh92vNqi8tA\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/327337673<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>-\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/327331457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/vimeo.com\/327331457&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572559799404000&amp;usg=AFQjCNENjndLKSai3JPfKw-QvTSh9NQMrQ\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/327331457<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4861,"title":"Venkatesh Yadav","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/venkatesh-yadav\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/venkatesh-yadav.png","featured_img_alt":"venkatesh yadav","excerpt":"<p>Software Engineering Leader at heart with a focus on building great teams that delivers amazing products and customer happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Venkatesh serves H2O as VP of Customer Success. He joined the company from Adobe Systems, where he held a number of positions in the Software Engineering and Leadership space including his latest role as Sr. Manager, Software Engineering and Product Management with primary focus on Master Data Management and Data Science. Venkatesh played an instrumental Engineering and Product Management leadership role as an \u201cEntrepreneur in Residence\u201d in the various key strategic programs and initiatives like Adobe@Adobe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adobe.io<\/a> and Adobe.Data.<\/p>\n<p>Experience of managing and working with teams across the globe in US, Canada, Switzerland, Romania, India with a focus on value creation. Prior to Adobe Systems Venkatesh has served technology companies in various engineering roles in companies like Philips, HP and IBM.<\/p>\n<p>Venkatesh holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mumbai University India and has successfully completed Product Management program from UC Berkeley and General Business Administration and Management program from McGill University. Connect with Venkatesh (@venkateshai)<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/venkateshai"},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7542,"title":"Venkatesh Yadav, VP Customer Success","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/venkatesh-yadav-vp-customer-success\/","term_categories":[{"id":138,"name":"Leadership Team","slug":"leadership-team"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/venkatesh-yadav.png","featured_img_alt":"venkatesh yadav","excerpt":"<p>Software Engineering Leader at heart with a focus on building great teams that delivers amazing products and customer happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Venkatesh serves H2O as VP of Customer Success. He joined the company from Adobe Systems, where he held a number of positions in the Software Engineering and Leadership space including his latest role as Sr. Manager, Software Engineering and Product Management with primary focus on Master Data Management and Data Science. Venkatesh played an instrumental Engineering and Product Management leadership role as an \u201cEntrepreneur in Residence\u201d in the various key strategic programs and initiatives like Adobe@Adobe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adobe.io<\/a> and Adobe.Data.<\/p>\n<p>Experience of managing and working with teams across the globe in US, Canada, Switzerland, Romania, India with a focus on value creation. Prior to Adobe Systems Venkatesh has served technology companies in various engineering roles in companies like Philips, HP and IBM.<\/p>\n<p>Venkatesh holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mumbai University India and has successfully completed Product Management program from UC Berkeley and General Business Administration and Management program from McGill University. Connect with Venkatesh (@venkateshai)<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":"8","key_num":8},{"id":5822,"title":"Veronika Maurerova","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/veronika-maurerova\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vmaurerova-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Veronika is Software Engineer. She likes everything about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>She finished master studies at Czech Technical University in Prague in 2017. Within master thesis, she cooperated with the Police of the Czech Republic. The goal was to prepare and analyze Czech crime data and build a predictive model. During studies at CTU, she had a part-time job in Ataccama software company as a Java Software Engineer. After she finished her studies, she had worked as a Machine Learning Engineer in Czech startup SEQENGI for nearly a year.<\/p>\n<p>In her spare time, she plays frisbee, travels, hikes, plays the ukulele, learns how to cook or bake something new, enjoys gardening and a much more.'<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":null,"name":null,"designation":null,"twitter":null},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11289,"title":"Vincent Bonnot","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/vincent-bonnot\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Vincent-Bonnot.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4863,"title":"Vinod Iyengar","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/vinod-iyengar\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/vinod-iyengar.png","featured_img_alt":"vinod iyengar","excerpt":"<p>Vinod is VP of marketing and technical alliances at H2O.ai. He leads all product marketing efforts, new product development and integrations with partners. Vinod comes with over 10 years of Marketing &amp; Data Science experience in multiple startups. He was the founding employee for his previous startup, Activehours (Earnin), where he helped build the product and bootstrap the user acquisition with growth hacking. He has worked to grow the user base for his companies from almost nothing to millions of customers. He\u2019s built models to score leads, reduce churn, increase conversion, prevent fraud and many more use cases.<\/p>\n<p>He brings a strong analytical side and a metrics driven approach to marketing. When he is not busy hacking, Vinod loves painting and reading. He is a huge foodie and will eat anything that doesn\u2019t crawl, swim or move.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11293,"title":"Vladimir Ovsyannikov","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/vladimir-ovsyannikov\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Vladimir-Ovsyannikov-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":4866,"title":"Wendy Wong","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/wendy-wong\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wendy-wong.png","featured_img_alt":"wendy wong","excerpt":"<p>Wendy is a hacker at H2O.ai devising solutions to making systems smarter. Prior to working at H2O.ai, she was building intelligent applications on mobile devices to recognize user activities from sensor data and predict user app usage from user logs at Lab126. At Intel Labs and Aperto Networks, she was a system engineer\/architect designing wireless communication systems for WiFi and cellular networks.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy obtained her bachelor in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a master and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell. She loves machine learning, swarm intelligence, mathematics and wireless communication systems. She enjoys being involved with all phases of the product development cycle; requirements analysis (what are we building and how well does it need to perform), architecture\/algorithm design, performance analysis and simulation, prototyping\/implementation, integration, test, and verification. Her diverse interests and skills are reflected in her patents.<\/p>\n<p>In her spare time, Wendy loves learning new things, being active, reading, and scuba diving. She loves the ocean and wishes she could be an amphibian someday.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":11291,"title":"William Watson","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/william-watson\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/William-Watson-256x256.jpeg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":12857,"title":"Yasuyuki Asakura","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/yasuyuki-asakura\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/yasu-profile-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Yasu is a Sales Executive at H2O in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>To establish Japan business and succeed,<\/p>\n<p>Responsible for help promote, navigate and thrive H2O.ai as a fast-paced startup environment and close big deals with a passion for innovation and translating complex technology into a high-ROI business outcome.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":8551,"title":"Yauhen Babakhin","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/yauhen-babakhin\/","term_categories":[{"id":219,"name":"Kaggle Grandmasters","slug":"kaggle-grandmasters"},{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gm-dude-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>I hold a Master\u2019s Degree in Applied Data Analysis and has over 4 years of working experience in Data Science. I worked in Banking, Gaming and eCommerce domains. I\u2019m also the first Kaggle competitions Grandmaster in Belarus having gold medals in both classic Machine Learning and Deep Learning competitions.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":6301,"title":"Yves Laurent","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/yves-laurent\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Yves_headshot-256x256.png","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Yves has over 20 years of experience in building partner and channel go to market strategies for leading technology companies. He started his career at Cisco Systems where he held various sales and marketing leadership positions across EMEA, APAC and US.\u00a0 Before joining H2O he lead partner marketing at Denodo and Hortonworks where his focus has been on ensuring partner success through partner programs that align with business objectives. During his spare time he enjoys the outdoors with his family and friends.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":7324,"title":"Zac Taschdjian","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/zac-taschdjian\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190227_105807900-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>I\u2019ve spent the past 10 years doing human-computer interaction for industrial applications at IBM, GE and a few startups and consultancies. I got into data visualization and visual analytics about 6-7 years ago via data-mining methods like dynamic time-warping of time-series data. I\u2019m really excited about the convergence of HCI and AI\/ML, especially for model interpretability, trust, fairness and transparency. I\u2019m currently getting my MS in CS at Georgia Tech focusing on knowledge-based AI. In my very limited free time, I\u2019m hiking the hills of East Bay with my two kids or making generative art using old analog appliances. Once upon a time, I played drums in a punk band.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0},{"id":9153,"title":"Zain Haq","link":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/team\/zain-haq\/","term_categories":[{"id":136,"name":"Makers","slug":"makers"}],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.h2o.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/zainHeadshot-256x256.jpg","featured_img_alt":"","excerpt":"<p>Zain is the Junior Technical Writer at H2O.\u00a0He graduated from Northern Illinois University in 2019 with a B.A. in English.<\/p>\n<p>Zain has a strong passion for writing, technology, and learning\u2014his other interests include film, literature, stand-up comedy, and astronomy.<\/p>\n","author":{"quote":"","name":"","designation":"","twitter":""},"key":0,"key_num":0}]