Ahmed Menshawy - Deep Learning By Example

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Ahmed Menshawy is a Research Engineer at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has more than 5 years of working experience in the area of ML and NLP. He holds an MSc in Advanced Computer Science. He started his Career as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Computer Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. He taught several advanced ML and NLP courses such as ML, Image Processing, and so on. He was involved in implementing the state-of-the-art system for Arabic Text to Speech. He was the main ML specialist at the Industrial research and development lab at IST Networks, based in Egypt.

Md. Rezaul Karim is a Research Scientist at Fraunhofer FIT, Germany. He is also a PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Before joining FIT, he worked as a Researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland. Earlier, he worked as a Lead Engineer at Samsung Electronics, Korea.

He has 9 years of R&D experience with C++, Java, R, Scala, and Python. He has published research papers concerning bioinformatics, big data, and deep learning. He has practical working experience with Spark, Zeppelin, Hadoop, Keras, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, DeepLearning4j, MXNet, and H2O.

Doug Ortiz is an experienced Enterprise Cloud, Big Data, Data Analytics and Solutions Architect who has architected, designed, developed, re-engineered and integrated enterprise solutions. Other expertise: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, Business Intelligence, Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL Databases, SharePoint to mention a few.

Is the founder of Illustris, LLC reachable at: dougortiz@illustris.org

Huge thanks to my wonderful wife Milla, Maria, Nikolay and our children for all their support.

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