DataEngConf is now Data Council

James Savage is an applied modeler and Data Science Lead at frontier markets lender Lendable in New York City. Previously he was at the Grattan Institute, La Trobe University, and the Australian Treasury. He is currently writing a book on Bayesian Econometrics in Stan.

Adam has a PhD in physics and has spent the past several years doing data science at BuzzFeed. He's now heading Barclays's research data science team, and teaching applied causal inference in Columbia's data science institute.

Gideon Mendels is the Co-founder & CEO at Comet.ml, a platform for data scientsits to automagically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history etc.

Previously he worked at Columbia University as a Researcher in Spoken Language Processing Group (GRA) where he took part in the IARPA Babel program for speech recognition technology for low resource languages. He also implemented and trained deep learning classifiers for language identification for over 500 languages. He also co-founded GroupWize, a platform that analyzes chat conversations from WhatsApp, LINE and other group messaging platforms.

Andreas Mueller is a lecturer at the Data Science Institute at Columbia University and author of the O'Reilly book "Introduction to machine learning with Python", describing a practical approach to machine learning with python and scikit-learn. He is one of the core developers of the scikit-learn machine learning library, and has been co-maintaining it for several years. He is also a Software Carpentry instructor. In the past, he worked at the NYU Center for Data Science on open source and open science, and as Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon.

Sahaana Suri is a third year PhD student in the Stanford InfoLab, working with Peter Bailis. Sahaana’s research focuses on building easily accessible data analytics and machine learning systems that scale. She holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

James H. Faghmous is an assistant professor and founding Chief Technology Officer of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine — Mount Sinai in NYC. At the Arnhold Institute, James leads both data science research and product development where he launch the ATLAS data platform to close health disparities around the world. In 2016, ATLAS was selected as winner of the USAID Zika Grand Challenge. The following year, it won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Explorations Grand Challenge. James’ research focuses on developing novel methods to combine heterogenous data to understand how social, economic, and environmental factors create health inequities.

Sam Stokes is a software engineer who can't leave well enough alone. He's compelled to fix broken things, whether they are software systems, engineering processes or cultures. After watching too many systems catch fire, he's building better smoke detectors at Honeycomb; in a past life he cofounded Rapportive and built recommendation systems at LinkedIn.

Jim Klucar is the Director of Data Science at Immuta, the fastest way for algorithm-driven enterprises to accelerate the development and control of machine learning and advanced analytics. After a dozen years of developing high performance radar processing techniques, in 2010 he switched to developing Hadoop-based data warehouse and analysis systems. Jim holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and a MS in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University.