Vitomir Kovanovic is a PhD student at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. He received an MSc degree in computer science and software engineering in 2011, and BSc in information systems and business administration in 2009 from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. His research interests include learning analytics, educational data mining, and online education. He is a member of the Society for Learning Analytics Research and a member of program committees of several conferences and journals in technology-enhanced learning. In his PhD research, he focuses on the use of trace data for understanding the effects of technology use on the quality of the social learning process and learning outcomes. For more information, visit http://vitomir.kovanovic.info/
Muktabh Mayank Srivastava is a data scientist and the cofounder of ParallelDots.com. Previously, he helped in solving many complex data analysis and machine learning problems for clients from different domains such as healthcare, retail, procurement, automation, Bitcoin, social recommendation engines, geolocation fact-finding, customer profiling, and so on.
His new venture is ParallelDots. It is a tool that allows any content archive to be presented in a story using advanced techniques of NLP and machine learning. For publishers and bloggers, it automatically creates a timeline of any event using their archive and presents it in an interactive, intuitive, and easy-to-navigate interface on their webpage. You can find him on LinkedIn at http://in.linkedin.com/in/muktabh/ and on Twitter at @muktabh / @ParallelDots.
Federico Tomassetti has been programming since he was a child and has a PhD in software engineering. He works as a consultant on model-driven development and domain-specific languages, writes technical articles, teaches programming, and works as a full-stack software engineer.
He has experience working in Italy, Germany, and Ireland, and he is currently working at Groupon International.
You can read about his projects on http://federico-tomassetti.it/ or https://github.com/ftomassetti/.