Blaine Bateman has more than 35 years of experience working with various industries from government R&D to startups to $1B public companies. His experience focuses on analytics including machine learning and forecasting. His hands-on abilities include Python and R coding, Keras/Tensorflow, and AWS & Azure machine learning services. As a machine learning consultant, he has developed and deployed actual ML models in industry.

Ashish Ranjan Jha received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from IIT Roorkee (India), a master's degree in Computer Science from EPFL (Switzerland), and an MBA degree from Quantic School of Business (Washington). He has received a distinction in all 3 of his degrees. He has worked for large technology companies, including Oracle and Sony as well as the more recent tech unicorns such as Revolut, mostly focused on artificial intelligence. He currently works as a machine learning engineer. Ashish has worked on a range of products and projects, from developing an app that uses sensor data to predict the mode of transport to detecting fraud in car damage insurance claims. Besides being an author, machine learning engineer, and data scientist, he also blogs frequently on his personal blog site about the latest research and engineering topics around machine learning.

Benjamin Johnston is a senior data scientist for one of the world's leading data-driven MedTech companies and is involved in the development of innovative digital solutions throughout the entire product development pathway, from problem definition to solution research and development, through to final deployment. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in machine learning, specializing in image processing and deep convolutional neural networks. He has more than 10 years of experience in medical device design and development, working in a variety of technical roles, and holds first-class honors bachelor's degrees in both engineering and medical science from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Ishita Mathur has worked as a data scientist for 2.5 years with product-based start-ups working with business concerns in various domains and formulating them as technical problems that can be solved using data and machine learning. Her current work at GO-JEK involves the end-to-end development of machine learning projects, by working as part of a product team on defining, prototyping, and implementing data science models within the product. She completed her masters' degree in high-performance computing with data science at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and her bachelor's degree with honors in physics at St. Stephen's College, Delhi.