Jason H.D. Cho has received an M.S. degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in computer science, and he is currently pursuing his PhD there. He is particularly interested in applying natural language processing and big data to solve medical informatics problem. In particular, he wishes to characterize what patients are concerned about in terms of their health needs in social media. He has also led a group of mentees who have been nominated for one of the top 10 teams in a national primary health care competition (CIMIT). Jason has also reviewed paper submissions in both natural language processing and big data research field.
Gururaghav Gopal is presently working in Paterson securities as a Quant developer, trader, and consultant. Previously, he worked as a data science consultant and was associated with the e-commerce industry. He has also taught graduate and postgraduate students of VIT University, Vellore, India in the field of pattern recognition. He has been a research associate in several research institutes, including IFMR and NAL.
Gururaghav completed his bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering and master's degree in computer science and engineering. He completed his course from IFMR in financial engineering and risk management, and since then, he has been associated with the finance sector. He has won a few awards and has a few international publications to his name.
He is interested in programming, teaching, and consulting. During his free time, he listens to music.
Vibhav Kamath holds a master's degree in industrial engineering and operations research from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from College of Engineering, Pune. During his postgraduation, he was intrigued with algorithms and mathematical modeling. He has been involved in analytics since then. Vibhav is currently based in Bangalore, and works for an IT services firm. As a part of his job, he has developed statistical/mathematical models based on techniques such as optimization and linear regression, using the R programming language. He has also worked as a reviewer for two other books on R, R Graphs Cookbook Second Edition and Social Media Mining with R, both by Packt Publishing. In the past, he has also handled data visualization and created dashboards for a leading global bank, using platforms such as SAS, SQL, and Excel/VBA.
In the past, Vibhav has worked on areas such as discrete event simulation and speech processing (both on MATLAB) as part of his academics. He has also worked on robotics in the past, and has built a robot that navigates through a maze, called Micromouse. Apart from analytics and programming, Vibhav has interests in reading and likes both fiction and nonfiction books. He plays table tennis in his free time, follows cricket and tennis, and likes solving puzzles (Su-doku and Kakuro) when really bored. You can get in touch with him at <[email protected]> or on LinkedIn at in.linkedin.com/in/vibhavkamath.
Hasan Kurban received his master's degree in computer science from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2012. He is currently a PhD student in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, majoring in computer science and minoring in statistics. His research is focused on data mining, machine learning, and statistics.