Biografisk notat

Valliappa (Lak) Lakshmanan works closely with management teams across a range of enterprises to help them employ data and AI-driven innovation to grow their businesses. Previously, he was the Director for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud and a Research Scientist at NOAA. He co-founded Google's Advanced Solutions Lab and is the author of several O'Reilly books and Coursera courses. He was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (the highest honor offered by the AMS) for pioneering machine learning algorithms in severe weather prediction. Hannes Hapke is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Digits, and has co-authored multiple machine learning publications, including the book Building Machine Learning Pipelines and Machine Learning Production Systems by O'Reilly Media. He has also presented state-of-the-art ML work at conferences like ODSC or O'Reilly's TensorFlow World and is an active contributor to TensorFlow's TFX Addons project. Hannes is passionate about machine learning engineering and production machine learning use cases using the latest machine learning developments.