About the Author

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Suman Kalyan Adari is a machine learning research engineer. He obtained a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Florida and a M.S. in Computer Science specializing in Machine Learning at Columbia University. He has been conducting deep learning research in adversarial machine learning since his freshman year at the University of Florida and presented at the IEEE Dependable Systems and Networks workshop on Dependable and Secure Machine Learning held in Portland, Oregon in June 2019. Currently, he works on various anomaly detection tasks spanning behavioral tracking and geospatial trajectory modeling. He is passionate about deep learning, and specializes in various fields ranging from video processing, generative modeling, object tracking, time-series modeling, and more. Sridhar Alla is the co-founder and CTO of Bluewhale, which helps organizations big and small in building AI-driven big data solutions and analytics, as well as SAS2PY, a powerful tool to automate migration of SAS workloads to Python-based environments using Pandas or PySpark. He is a published author and an avid presenter at numerous conferences, including Strata, Hadoop World, and Spark Summit. He also has several patents filed with the US PTO on large-scale computing and distributed systems. He has extensive hands-on experience in several technologies, including Spark, Flink, Hadoop, AWS, Azure, Tensorflow, Cassandra, and others. He spoke on Anomaly Detection Using Deep Learning at Strata SFO in March 2019 and also presented at Strata London in October 2019. He was born in Hyderabad, India and now lives in New Jersey, USA with his wife Rosie, his daughters Evelyn andMadelyn, and his son, Jayson. When he is not busy writing code, he loves to spend time with his family. He also enjoys training, coaching, and organizing meetups.