Subhashini Tripuraneni has several years of experience leading AI initiatives in financial services and convenience retail. She has automated multiple business processes and helped to create a proactive competitive advantage for businesses via AI. She is also a seasoned data scientist, with hands-on experience building machine learning and deep learning models in a public cloud. She holds an MBA from Wharton Business School, with a specialization in business analytics, marketing and operations, and entrepreneurial management. In her spare time, she enjoys going to theme parks and spending time with her children. She currently lives in Dallas, TX, with her husband and children.

Charles Song is a solutions architect with a background in applied software engineering research. He is skilled in software development, architecture design, and machine learning, with a proven ability to utilize emerging technologies to devise innovative solutions. He has applied machine learning to many research and industry projects, and published peer-reviewed papers on the subject. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland. He has taught several software engineering courses at the University of Maryland for close to a decade. In his spare time, he likes to relax in front of his planted aquariums, but also enjoys martial arts, cycling, and snowboarding. He currently resides in Bethesda, MD, with his wife.