Bill Inmon
Father of the data warehouse

Bill Inmon
Father of the data warehouse
William H. (Bill) Inmon (born 1945) is an American computer scientist, recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse. Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference (with Arnie Barnett), wrote the first column in a magazine and was the first to offer classes in data warehousing. Inmon created the accepted definition of what a data warehouse is - a subject oriented, nonvolatile, integrated, time variant collection of data in support of management's decisions.
Viral Shah
Inventor of Julia programming language

Viral Shah
Inventor of Julia programming language
Viral B Shah is an Indian computer scientist, best known for being a co-creator of the Julia programming language. As of 2017 he is the CEO of Julia Computing, which he co-founded with Alan Edelman, Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Keno Fischer and Deepak Vinchhi.
Kirk Borne
Top AI Influencer

Kirk Borne
Top AI Influencer
Dr. Kirk Borne is a data scientist and an astrophysicist. He is Principal Data Scientist in the Strategic Innovation Group at Booz-Allen Hamilton since 2015. He was Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science in the George Mason University (GMU) School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences during 2003-2015. He served as undergraduate advisor for the GMU Data Science program and graduate advisor to students in the Computational Science and Informatics PhD program. Prior to that, he spent nearly 20 years supporting NASA projects, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as Data Archive Project Scientist, NASA's Astronomy Data Center, and NASA's Space Science Data Operations Office. He has extensive experience in large scientific databases and information systems, including expertise in scientific data mining. He was a contributor to the design and development of the new Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), for which he contributed in the areas of science data management, informatics and statistical science research, galaxies research, and education and public outreach.
Abhishek Thakur
World’s first 4x Kaggle Grandmaster

Abhishek Thakur
World’s first 4x Kaggle Grandmaster
Abhishek is the world’s first 4x Kaggle Grandmaster and currently works as Chief Data Scientist for boost.ai. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Bonn. In his free time, he likes to take part in machine learning competitions, create YouTube videos related to applied machine learning and is currently writing a book titled: Approaching (Almost) Any Machine Learning Problem.
Johnson Poh
Head, Group Enterprise Artificial Intelligence at UOB Bank

Johnson Poh
Head, Group Enterprise Artificial Intelligence at UOB Bank
Johnson Poh is currently Executive Director and Head, Group Enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at UOB Group. He has been a practicing data scientist for the past decade, with experience spanning across finance, consulting and government sectors. His prior professional appointments include being Head Data Science / Practice Lead at DBS Bank, Chief Data Scientist, ASEAN Region at Booz Allen Hamilton and Head Data Science / Principal Data Scientist at Ministry of Defence, Singapore. He also serves as an adjunct faculty at Singapore Management University (SMU).
Johnson completed his bachelor’s degrees in Pure Mathematics, Statistics and Economics at University of California, Berkeley. He received his postgraduate degree in Statistics at Yale University.