▶About the Author
⦁ Giancarlo Zaccone has more than ten years of experience in managing research projects both in scientific and industrial areas. He worked as researcher at the C.N.R, the National Research Council, where he was involved in projects relating to parallel computing and scientific visualization. Currently, he is a system and software engineer at a consulting company developing and maintaining software systems for space and defense applications. He is author of the following Packt volumes: Python Parallel Programming Cookbook and Getting Started with TensorFlow.
⦁ 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. Before that, 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 several 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.
⦁ 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 Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (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 Machine Learning, Image Processing, Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics, Data structures, Essential Mathematics for Computer Science and Computer Vision. Next, he joined as a research scientist at the Industrial research and development lab at IST Networks, based in Egypt. He was involved in implementing the state-of-the-art system for Arabic Text to Speech. Consequently, he was the main machine learning specialist in that company.
Later on, he joined the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, the National University of Ireland at Galway as a research assistant working on building a Predictive Analytics Platform. Finally, he joined ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin as a research engineer. His main role in ADAPT is to build prototypes and applications using ML and NLP techniques based on the research that is done within ADAPT.