About the Reviewer

Oleg Okun is a machine learning expert and an author/editor of four books, numerous journal articles, and conference papers. He has been working for more than a quarter of a century. During this time, Oleg was employed in both academia and industry in his mother country, Belarus, and abroad (Finland, Sweden, and Germany). His work experience includes document image analysis, fingerprint biometrics, bioinformatics, online/offline marketing analytics, and credit-scoring analytics. He is interested in all aspects of distributed machine learning and the Internet of Things. Oleg currently lives and works in Hamburg, Germany, and is about to start a new job as a chief architect of intelligent systems. His favorite programming languages are Python, R, and Scala.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my parents for everything that they have done for me.

Kai Londenberg is a data science and big data expert with many years of professional experience. Currently, he is working as a data scientist at the Volkswagen Data Lab. Before that, he had the pleasure of being the lead data scientist at Searchmetrics, where Luca Massaron was a member of his team. Kai enjoys working with cutting-edge technologies, and while he is a pragmatic machine learning practitioner and software developer at work, he always enjoys staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and research in machine learning, AI, and related fields. You can find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kailondenberg.