Keynote Speakers

Kayur Patel
Google Research

Kayur makes data science tools easier to use, and studies how people apply machine learning to solve problems and build software. As a researcher at Google, he spends a lot of time making data analytics accessible to more people, and has taught classes on visualization and data science, most recently the “Introduction to Data Science” course at Columbia University. 

Pushpraj Shukla
Microsoft

Pushpraj is a Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft. He has worked on large scale machine learning solutions for improving Search Quality and has built Cloud-based platforms for Big Data experimentation at Bing. These days, he finds unique social and industry applications for machine-learnt predictions from Microsoft’s Big Data assets.