Nataraj Dasgupta is the VP of Advanced Analytics at RxDataScience Inc. He has been in the IT industry for more than 19 years and has worked in the technical & analytics divisions of Philip Morris, IBM, UBS Investment Bank, and Purdue Pharma. He led the Data Science team at Purdue, where he developed the company's award-winning Big Data and Machine Learning platform. Prior to Purdue, at UBS, he held the role of Associate Director, working with high-frequency & algorithmic trading technologies in the Foreign Exchange Trading group. He has authored Practical Big Data Analytics and co-authored Hands-on Data Science with R. Apart from his role at RxDataScience, and is also currently affiliated with Imperial
College, London.

Ratanlal Mahanta is currently working as a quantitative analyst at bittQsrv, a global quantitative research company offering quant models for its investors. He has several years of experience in the modeling and simulation of quantitative trading. Ratanlal holds a master's degree in science in computational finance, and his research areas include quant trading, optimal execution, and high-frequency trading. He has over 9 years' work experience in the finance industry, and is gifted at solving difficult problems that lie at the intersection of the market, technology, research, and design.

Jiri Pik is an artificial intelligence architect & strategist who works with major investment banks, hedge funds, and other players. He has architected and delivered breakthrough trading, portfolio, and risk management systems, as well as decision support systems, across numerous industries.

Jiri's consulting firm, Jiri Pik—RocketEdge, provides its clients with certified expertise, judgment, and execution at the speed of light.