Giuseppe Ciaburro - Hands-On Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform

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Giuseppe Ciaburro holds a PhD in environmental technical physics and two master's degrees. His research is on machine learning applications in the study of urban sound environments. He works at Built Environment Control Laboratory, Universit degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (Italy). He has over 15 years' experience in programming Python, R, and MATLAB, first in the field of combustion, and then in acoustics and noise control. He has several publications to his credit .

V Kishore Ayyadevara has over 9 years' experience of using analytics to solve business problems and setting up analytical work streams through his work at American Express, Amazon, and, more recently, a retail analytics consulting startup. He has an MBA from IIM Calcutta and is also an electronics and communications engineer. He has worked in credit risk analytics, supply chain analytics, and consulting for multiple FMCG companies to identify ways to improve their profitability.

Alexis Perrier is a data science consultant with experience in signal processing and stochastic algorithms. He holds a master's in mathematics from Universit Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI and a PhD in signal processing from Tlcom ParisTech. He is actively involved in the DC data science community. He is also an avid book lover and proud owner of a real chalk blackboard, where he regularly shares his fascination of mathematical equations with his kids.

Mikhail Berlyant is a data warehousing veteran. He has been a data developer since the late 1970s. Since 2000, he has led data systems, data mining, and data warehouse teams at Yahoo! and Myspace.

He is a Google Cloud expert and senior VP of Technology, at Viant Inc., a people-based advertising tech company that enables marketers to plan, execute, and measure their digital media investments through a cloud-based platform. At Viant, he led the migration of a petabyte-sized data warehouse to Google Cloud. He is currently focusing on self-serve/productivity tools for BigQuery/GCP.

Sanket Thodge is an entrepreneur by profession in Pune, India. He is an author of Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform. He founded Pi R Square Digital Solutions. With expertise as a Hadoop developer, he has explored the cloud, IoT, machine learning, and blockchain. He has also applied for a patent in IoT and has worked with numerous startups and MNCs, providing consultancy, architecture building, development, and corporate training across the globe.

Antonio Gulli is a transformational software executive and business leader with a passion for establishing and managing global technological talent for innovation and execution. He is an expert in search engines, online services, machine learning, and so on. Currently, he is a site lead and director of cloud at Google Warsaw, driving European efforts for serverless, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud UX. Antonio has filed for 20+ patents, published multiple academic papers, and served as a senior PC member in multiple international conferences.

Chirag Nayyar is helping organizations to migrate their workload from on-premise to the public cloud. He has experience in web app migration, SAP workload on the cloud, and EDW. He is c urrently working at Cloud Kinetics Technology Solutions. He holds a wide range of certifications from all major public cloud platforms. He also runs meetups and is a regular speaker at various cloud events.

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