The Applied AI and Natural Language Processing Workshop

Krishna Sankar is an AI data scientist with Volvo Cars focusing on autonomous vehicles. Previously, he was the chief data scientist at blackarrow, where he was focusing on optimizing user experience via inference, intelligence, and interfaces. He was the director of a data science/bioinformatics startup and also worked as a distinguished engineer at Cisco. He has been speaking at various conferences as well as guest lecturing at the Naval Postgraduate School. His other passion is Lego Robotics. You'll find him at the St.Louis FLL World Competition as the robot design judge.

Jeffrey Jackovich is a curious data scientist with a background in health-tech and mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive business-oriented healthcare knowledge but enjoys analyzing all types of data with R and Python. He loves the challenges involved in the data science process, and his ingenious demeanor was tempered while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco. He is completing a master's of science in computer information systems from Boston University, with a data analytics concentration.

Ruze Richards is a data scientist and cloud architect who has spent most of his career building high-performance analytics systems for enterprises and startups. He is passionate about AI and machine learning. He began his career as a physicist, felt excited about neural networks, and started working at AT&T Bell Labs to further pursue this area of interest. He is thrilled to spread the knowledge and help people achieve their goals.