Physical & Life Sciences

Scholars dedicating their careers to the study of living organisms and non-living systems

Allen Smith

Allen Smith

Allen Smith has spent more than two decades building technology, communities, and the occasional strange career detour. He has worked in Developer Relations and open-source ecosystems at companies including GitHub, Automattic, Gatsby, and Umbraco, helping grow developer communities and adoption around open-source platforms used by millions.

Before DevRel, Allen led IT across an eclectic mix of environments—from nonprofits and manufacturing to running infrastructure for a major metropolitan crime laboratory. Even earlier, he worked in the film industry as a screenwriter and editor, taught gifted students through Duke University Talent Identification Program, and once ran cameras for professional wrestling.

Allen has been writing code and using open-source software since 1998, when installing Linux meant downloading floppy disk images and hoping for the best. Today he works at the intersection of technology, community, and storytelling. He is also a licensed ham radio operator, a record producer, and a former congressional candidate.

In short: Allen is an unapologetic dabbler who believes the most interesting ideas happen where disciplines collide.

Allen Smith has spent more than two decades building technology, communities, and the occasional strange career detour. He has worked in Developer Relations and open-source ecosystems at companies including GitHub, Automattic, Gatsby, and Umbraco, he... Show more

Dr. Konstantinos Marmagkiolis

Dr. Konstantinos Marmagkiolis

Dr. Konstantinos Marmagkiolis is a board-certified Interventional Cardiologist and Cardiovascular Disease specialist who practices at Tampa Heart & Vascular Associates in Florida. His work focuses on diagnosing and treating patients with heart and vascular conditions through interventional cardiology and structural heart procedures. As a structural heart disease specialist, he performs complex coronary interventions, structural heart valve treatments, and endovascular therapies. His clinical approach focuses on accurate diagnosis, efficient care, and treatment plans designed around each patient’s cardiovascular needs.

Along with his clinical practice, Konstantinos remains active in academic medicine. He serves as a Collaborative Associate Professor of Cardiology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He also holds an academic role as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Cardiology, Division of Internal Medicine, at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. These roles allow him to participate in educational activities and collaborate with physicians and researchers involved in cardiovascular care and research.

Dr. Konstantinos Marmagkiolis has developed professional collaborations with academic institutions and cardiovascular specialists in both the United States and Europe. Through these professional relationships, he participates in academic discussions and research initiatives aimed at advancing cardiovascular medicine. His involvement in international collaboration supports the exchange of medical knowledge and clinical experience among physicians working in interventional cardiology.

Patients at Tampa Heart & Vascular Associates receive a wide range of cardiovascular services. These services include diagnostic imaging, advanced intravascular imaging techniques such as IVUS and OCT, and specialized clinics for heart failure and lipid disorders. The practice also provides interventional cardiology procedures, including complex PCI, and structural heart therapies, including TAVR, MitraClip, ASD/PFO closure, and Watchman procedures. Additional care includes pacemaker and rhythm management, treatment of peripheral arterial disease, vein care, cardio-oncology services, and cardiac clearance before surgical procedures.

Konstantinos Marmagkiolis, MD, has also contributed to cardiovascular research through academic publications and collaborations with other medical specialists. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications related to cardiovascular and interventional cardiology. His research interests include coronary calcium modification, structural heart intervention techniques, catheter-based therapies, and long-term outcomes following complex PCI procedures.

Marmagkiolis completed medical school at Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He later earned an MBA from the Open University of Cyprus and completed the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Born in Kavala, Greece, he is married with four children and speaks Greek, English, and French, and holds both U.S. and Greek citizenship.

Dr. Konstantinos Marmagkiolis is a board-certified Interventional Cardiologist and Cardiovascular Disease specialist who practices at Tampa Heart & Vascular Associates in Florida. His work focuses on diagnosing and treating patients with heart and va... Show more

Chad Nelson

Chad Nelson

Background in physics with 15 years of experience in HP / UHP trace gas analysis

Background in physics with 15 years of experience in HP / UHP trace gas analysis Show more

Navneet Dalipkumar Magotra

Navneet Dalipkumar Magotra

Navneet Magotra builds AI systems for places where technology has to work—not just look impressive. As a Senior Generative AI Solutions Architect at Amazon, he leads the design and deployment of AI and voice solutions used in healthcare, senior living, and other real-world environments where trust, simplicity, and reliability matter every day.
With over ten years of experience across Amazon and IBM, Navneet has spent his career helping organizations move AI from experiments into tools people actually rely on. His work focuses on making generative AI and voice technology feel natural and useful for patients, caregivers, staff, and everyday users—not intimidating or fragile. Many of the systems he’s helped build now support thousands of people in moments that matter, from asking for help to getting answers quickly.
In addition to his industry work, Navneet holds a patent in data science and has published research on generative AI–powered voice technologies. He is known for bridging deep technical innovation with real human needs, working closely with leaders, builders, and frontline teams to design AI solutions that scale responsibly. He believes the future of AI isn’t just about smarter algorithms—it’s about technology that listens, earns trust, and makes life a little easier for the people using it.

Navneet Magotra builds AI systems for places where technology has to work—not just look impressive. As a Senior Generative AI Solutions Architect at Amazon, he leads the design and deployment of AI and voice solutions used in healthcare, senior livin... Show more

Clayton Ramsey

Clayton Ramsey

Clayton is a doctoral student at Rice University, researching parallelism and hardware acceleration for robot planning in dynamic environments.

Clayton is a doctoral student at Rice University, researching parallelism and hardware acceleration for robot planning in dynamic environments. Show more

Dushime Mudahera Richard

Dushime Mudahera Richard

I'm involved in open-source contributions, community leadership, and fostering diversity in tech. I believe in making science accessible and collaborative.

I'm involved in open-source contributions, community leadership, and fostering diversity in tech. I believe in making science accessible and collaborative. Show more

Adele Chinda

Adele Chinda

Adele Chinda is a PhD student at Georgia State University, he is passionate about generative AI and natural language processing. Currently building a novel approach to masked diffusion language modeling that teaches AI to prioritize important tokens.

Adele Chinda is a PhD student at Georgia State University, he is passionate about generative AI and natural language processing. Currently building a novel approach to masked diffusion language modeling that teaches AI to prioritize important tokens... Show more

Dave Bostock

Dave Bostock

Over 25 years of Software development experience in Business applications, PaaS and bespoke solutions. Dave has a long history in many different industries- computer games, personal finance, local government, resources, education, insurance, utilities and energy providers. He has enjoyed steady progression up the layers from machine code and Assembly to C and C++, finally to SQL, c#, javascript and PowerFX. He says that you learn by mistakes. Dave prefers to learn from other peoples. Having made enough mistakes of his own to learn a lot..... His epitaph would read "What's the worst that can happen.....oh...yeh... I hadn't thought of that."

Over 25 years of Software development experience in Business applications, PaaS and bespoke solutions. Dave has a long history in many different industries- computer games, personal finance, local government, resources, education, insurance, utili... Show more

Alessandra Ginsburg

Alessandra Ginsburg

Swiss-based therapist specialising in women’s hormonal and digestive health, with a particular focus on gut health and hormonal balance. I run my private practice, Nutrition-Therapy.ch, in Zurich, where I integrate clinical nutrition with advanced diagnostic testing—including hormonal, metabolic, stool, microbiome, and DNA analyses—to restore gut function, hormonal balance, and metabolic resilience. My training includes the Stanford Center for Health Education, the Institut Français de Micro-Immunothérapie, a CAS in Eating and Behaviour from the University of Geneva, and the Functional Nutrition Alliance. Accredited by ASCA and RME, I work in French, Italian, English, and German with a multicultural client base and regularly speak at conferences and professional events on women’s health, hormones, and the gut microbiome. Alongside my practice, I collaborate with Swiss online clinics on cases using an interdisciplinary approach and diagnostic testing. I have also contributed a forthcoming scientific chapter on the gut microbiome for a multidisciplinary book on health.

Swiss-based therapist specialising in women’s hormonal and digestive health, with a particular focus on gut health and hormonal balance. I run my private practice, Nutrition-Therapy.ch, in Zurich, where I integrate clinical nutrition with advanced di... Show more

Shan Zhang

Shan Zhang

Shan Zhang is a PhD candidate from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research uses prospective life cycle assessment to assess potential environmental impacts of emerging battery technologies. She holds a master degree in Environmental Sciences, from Wageningen University. Her research interests lie in prospective life cycle assessment and metal criticality assessment.

Shan Zhang is a PhD candidate from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research uses prospective life cycle assessment to assess potential environmental impacts of emerging battery technologies. She holds a master degree in Environmental... Show more

Michelle Ann Richards

Michelle Ann Richards

Michelle Ann Richards BSHA, CPC, CPCO, SHRM-SCP, CPMA, is a quality-driven transformational healthcare executive leader. She has gained respect nationwide as a speaker, educator and subject matter expert (SME) on Compliance, HR Management, Revenue Cycle Management, Business Development, Meaningful Use, DSRIP, Chart Auditing, Practice Management, Leadership training and much more.

She is the proud owner of Coding & Compliance Experts since 2009 where she provides on-site Risk Assessments, Operational Analysis, Medical Insurance Credentialing, HR Audits, Compliance Program Effectiveness Reviews, HIPAA Privacy & Security Audits, Compliance Program Implementations and much more. Her passion, drive and charisma gets others motivated on becoming proactive vs reactive with regard to health care operations. She builds HR programs, HIPAA Privacy & Security awareness and more. She builds policies & procedures that are necessary for physicians to remain viable in their communities served.

Her passion, besides her family, is building sustainable development programs for healthcare organizations, educating employees on complex healthcare topics, such as compliance and human resources, by writing educational articles, conference presentations, webinars and providing consulting services. She has been a SME for DEA, KEPRO, and FCA cases.

Michelle sits on several college advisory boards, sits on the board of directors for YWCA and is active with the Relay for Life (She has written and produced a song in 2004, which has raised thousands of dollars) http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/micheller

Michelle Ann Richards BSHA, CPC, CPCO, SHRM-SCP, CPMA, is a quality-driven transformational healthcare executive leader. She has gained respect nationwide as a speaker, educator and subject matter expert (SME) on Compliance, HR Management, Revenue Cy... Show more

S. Muhammad Hossein Mousavi

S. Muhammad Hossein Mousavi

Seyed Muhammad Hossein Mousavi is an advanced AI researcher and innovator with a strong focus on optimization, multimodal learning, and emotion recognition. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications and a Google Scholar H-index of 12, he is ranked among the top 6% of active researchers in AI globally, according to ResearchGate metrics.

Mr. Mousavi is known for his pioneering work in emotion recognition from various modalities, synthetic data generation, and meta-heuristic optimization algorithms. His research bridges theory and real-world application, from emotion recognition using body motion and physiological signals to VR-based stimulus systems, depth estimation, pose optimization, and hardware-integrated multimodal AI systems.

As the founder of Cyrus Intelligence Research, he has led several independent projects combining Kinect motion capture, Arduino-based sensors, VR protocols, and AI pipelines involving techniques like PSO, GA, GCNs, ANFIS, and GANs. He has also contributed to open-source research and published reproducible codebases on GitHub.

Mr. Mousavi’s work spans multimodal fusion, emotion-driven synthetic data, graph neural networks, and real-time optimization for health and affective computing, with datasets and frameworks designed for academic and industrial AI use.

In addition to research, he is passionate about scientific transparency, hands-on experimentation, and democratizing access to AI knowledge through tutorials, pipelines, and public datasets.

Seyed Muhammad Hossein Mousavi is an advanced AI researcher and innovator with a strong focus on optimization, multimodal learning, and emotion recognition. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications and a Google Scholar H-index of 12, he is ranked amon... Show more

Raquel Thompson

Raquel Thompson

Raquel Thompson joined Barbados Community College and completed her degree. She is 13 years experienced architecture professional with involvement across a wide range of project types and sizes. Barbados Community College Raquel Thompson has experience in planning, designing, and constructing major and minor renovation and architecture projects inclusive of Institutional, recreational, commercial, and residential facilities.

Raquel Shaheda Karimah Thompson has a background in directing all project phases, from design through completion of construction. Raquel Thompson is a motivated designer with excellent interpersonal communication skills, relationship management, and execution skills. It can be noted that Raquel works well under pressure.

Raquel Thompson joined Barbados Community College and completed her degree. She is 13 years experienced architecture professional with involvement across a wide range of project types and sizes. Barbados Community College Raquel Thompson has experien... Show more

Norbert Tschernitschek

Norbert Tschernitschek

Power Platform enthusiast / Co-founder Power Platform Mallorca User Group / Promoter of using humor at work / Optimist

Power Platform enthusiast / Co-founder Power Platform Mallorca User Group / Promoter of using humor at work / Optimist Show more

Huan Li

Huan Li

Huan Li is an accomplished technologist and innovator at the intersection of artificial intelligence and real-world applications. As a seasoned architect at Chatie.IO and a Venture Partner at Plug and Play, Huan leverages his deep expertise in coding, serial entrepreneurship, and AI to drive technological advancement and startup success, possesses a unique blend of strategic insight and hands-on experience in the startup ecosystem in Silicon Valley.

A recognized authority in machine learning, Huan holds the titles of Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning and Microsoft Regional Director. His contributions to the tech community extend beyond his roles, through his involvement with open-source projects like the ChatBot SDK Wechaty, reflecting his commitment to collaboration and innovation.

Huan is a prolific speaker, known for his engaging presentations at Google's DevFest, Microsoft's Build events, and various tech conferences worldwide. His technical prowess spans full-stack and cloud-native development, enabling him to craft scalable, high-availability solutions that address modern digital challenges.

Beyond his professional endeavors, Huan is an author of several influential technology books, including "Concise TensorFlow 2" and "Chatbot 0 to 1," where he simplifies complex technologies for a wider audience. His eclectic interests, from paragliding to salsa dancing, fuel his creative approach to technology and problem-solving.

Huan's journey is a testament to the transformative power of AI and his dedication to empowering startups, inspiring communities, and fostering a technology-driven future. Join him as he shares insights from the frontier of AI and innovation, inspiring the next generation of technologists and entrepreneurs.

Huan Li is an accomplished technologist and innovator at the intersection of artificial intelligence and real-world applications. As a seasoned architect at Chatie.IO and a Venture Partner at Plug and Play, Huan leverages his deep expertise in coding... Show more

Caio Beleza

Caio Beleza

Caio co-founded NP Digital Brazil and worked with Neil Patel for over a decade. After scaling the agency in Brazil, he moved to the U.S. to help grow NPD's SMB division as COO. Now, he leads International Growth, supporting NP Digital’s expansion across over 20 countries.

Caio co-founded NP Digital Brazil and worked with Neil Patel for over a decade. After scaling the agency in Brazil, he moved to the U.S. to help grow NPD's SMB division as COO. Now, he leads International Growth, supporting NP Digital’s expansion acr... Show more

Shawn Kyzer

Shawn Kyzer

Shawn is passionate about harnessing the power of data strategy, engineering, and analytics in order to help businesses uncover new opportunities. As an innovative technologist with over 15 years of experience, Shawn removes technology as a barrier and broadens the art of the possible for business and product leaders. His holistic view of technology and emphasis on developing and motivating strong engineering talent, with a focus on delivering outcomes whilst minimising outputs, is one of the characteristics which sets him apart from the crowd.

Shawn’s deep technical knowledge includes distributed computing, cloud architecture, data science, machine learning, and engineering analytics platforms. He has years of experience working as a consultant practitioner for a variety of prestigious clients ranging from secret clearance level government organizations to Fortune 500 companies.

Shawn is passionate about harnessing the power of data strategy, engineering, and analytics in order to help businesses uncover new opportunities. As an innovative technologist with over 15 years of experience, Shawn removes technology as a barrier a... Show more

Shruti Tiwari

Shruti Tiwari

Being actively involved with the SaaS and Open Source industry, Shruti has a good hold on everything eCommerce and has expertise in framing content, including web content, web marketing, and guest posts. Staying updated with industry activities, she delivers the right content to help the end audiences grow their ecommerce sales. Ms. Tiwari Shruti is a proud Ambassador at Women Techmakers and leads the content marketing and partner collaboration between CedCommerce and the Grow Big Initiative.

Being actively involved with the SaaS and Open Source industry, Shruti has a good hold on everything eCommerce and has expertise in framing content, including web content, web marketing, and guest posts. Staying updated with industry activities, she ... Show more

Bidyut Sarkar

Bidyut Sarkar

I am an IT professional specializing in the Life Science and Industrial Manufacturing industry. Over my 20-year career at IBM, I have developed a blend of industry experience, a comprehensive understanding of AI and Analytics, and strategic solutioning skills. My journey is marked by achievements that reflect my role in IT solutioning functions, and I have been honored with awards like IBM's 'Client and Partner Success Award – 2023' and 'Growth Award -2023'. My work has impacted large pharmaceutical companies and industrial manufacturing industries, particularly in the United States. I have been part of efforts to provide IT solutions against counterfeit drugs and implement AI/ML-powered predictive demand and automated replenishment capabilities. Through AI-driven technologies, I have contributed to solutions that enhance cybersecurity and guarantee the authenticity and safety of medications worldwide. My professional experience has taken me to various parts of the world, including the USA, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Australia. This multicultural experience has given me insights into global organizational challenges, reinforcing my commitment to addressing critical issues.

I am an IT professional specializing in the Life Science and Industrial Manufacturing industry. Over my 20-year career at IBM, I have developed a blend of industry experience, a comprehensive understanding of AI and Analytics, and strategic solutioni... Show more

Karthik Soman

Karthik Soman

Dr. Karthik Soman is an AI researcher and practitioner working at the intersection of agentic AI, knowledge graphs, and large language models. He is the inventor of KG-RAG (Knowledge Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation), a framework that combines knowledge graphs with LLMs to enable holistic, context-aware, and evidence-grounded reasoning. He currently serves as a Data Science Expert at SAP America, where he leads research and development of enterprise-scale agentic AI systems, with a focus on multi-agent orchestration, federated AI architectures, and intelligent cloud operations.

Prior to SAP, Karthik was a Research Specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, where he developed large-scale biomedical knowledge graph and machine learning systems for problems ranging from early detection of Parkinson’s disease to Multiple Sclerosis research. He holds a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from IIT Madras.

His research has appeared in leading publications including Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Aging, Cell, and Bioinformatics. His AI based work has also contributed to collaborative research initiatives involving NASA, NSF and NIH. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple peer-reviewed AI and bioinformatics journals and has been invited to speak at venues including the Knowledge Graph Conference and the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. His work spans federated AI architectures, knowledge graph-based reasoning and production-scale agentic AI, resulting in multiple patent applications across these areas. Most recently, he was featured on the ContextOps podcast discussing the evolution of knowledge graph-based reasoning in agentic systems.

Dr. Karthik Soman is an AI researcher and practitioner working at the intersection of agentic AI, knowledge graphs, and large language models. He is the inventor of KG-RAG (Knowledge Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation), a framework that combi... Show more

Lilian Nwagbara

Lilian Nwagbara

Lilian Nwagbara is a bioinformatics and computer-aided drug design (CADD) researcher working at the intersection of computational biology, data science, drug discovery, and scientific research. Her work spans bioinformatics, molecular modelling, computational drug discovery and research software, with a particular interest in using computational approaches to solve complex biomedical problems.

She is passionate about building research capacity and making scientific discovery more reproducible through better software, data and computational workflows.

Lilian Nwagbara is a bioinformatics and computer-aided drug design (CADD) researcher working at the intersection of computational biology, data science, drug discovery, and scientific research. Her work spans bioinformatics, molecular modelling, comp... Show more

Sudhanshu Shrivastava

Sudhanshu Shrivastava

Sudhanshu Shrivastava is a Graduate Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis working on medical imaging and privacy-aware AI. His research spans computational imaging, biomedical image analysis, and multi-site learning for healthcare. He is an author of a recent federated learning study on glaucoma monitoring from color fundus photographs and is interested in secure, deployable AI for real-world clinical settings.

Sudhanshu Shrivastava is a Graduate Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis working on medical imaging and privacy-aware AI. His research spans computational imaging, biomedical image analysis, and multi-site learning for healthcar... Show more

Raphaela Seeger

Raphaela Seeger

Platform Engineer at Puzzle ITC with a passion for CI/CD, automation, and cloud-native technologies.
I am committed to create scalable and secure software delivery pipelines for our customers. I love to implement modern, cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes and Dagger are driving the current innovations in software development and deployment processes.

Platform Engineer at Puzzle ITC with a passion for CI/CD, automation, and cloud-native technologies. I am committed to create scalable and secure software delivery pipelines for our customers. I love to implement modern, cutting-edge technologies su... Show more

Patrik Mada

Patrik Mada

Patrik studied medicine and worked in neuroscience research. He later moved into cybersecurity, joining Microsoft, where he worked on the Assume Breach program. For nearly two years, he has been an AI researcher at Aisle, focusing on methods for detecting Trojaned and backdoored machine-learning models. His work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, cybersecurity, and AI safety, with a particular interest in understanding and identifying hidden or adversarial model behavior.

Patrik studied medicine and worked in neuroscience research. He later moved into cybersecurity, joining Microsoft, where he worked on the Assume Breach program. For nearly two years, he has been an AI researcher at Aisle, focusing on methods for dete... Show more

Wolf Bueschgen

Wolf Bueschgen

Dr. Bueschgen received his BA in anthropology from Arizona State University and MA in biological anthropology from the University of South Carolina before completing his DMD at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2003. He has been analyzing skeletal and dental remains in both archaeological and forensic contexts from around the world for nearly 25 years and has written on topics ranging from paleopathology, genetic traits of teeth, intentional tooth modification, and forensic odontology. Dr. Bueschgen currently practices general dentistry in Charleston, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Dentistry at the Medical University of South Carolina, and is the forensic odontologist for the Charleston County Coroner’s Office and a forensic odontology consultant for coroner’s statewide

Dr. Bueschgen received his BA in anthropology from Arizona State University and MA in biological anthropology from the University of South Carolina before completing his DMD at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2003. He has been analyzing s... Show more

Elisa Cascardi

Elisa Cascardi

Elisa Cascardi leads AI for Science programming at Meta FAIR, driving open source research across the Brain & AI and FAIR Chemistry teams. She has 12+ years expertise bridging AI research, policy, and product, and specializes in scaling complex scientific programs into community-ready AI tools. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Elisa Cascardi leads AI for Science programming at Meta FAIR, driving open source research across the Brain & AI and FAIR Chemistry teams. She has 12+ years expertise bridging AI research, policy, and product, and specializes in scaling complex scien... Show more

Vyron Korpas Kamarianos

Vyron Korpas Kamarianos

Vyron Korpas Kamarianos is a Solution Architect and Senior Research Engineer specializing in edge computing and distributed systems for large-scale environmental and Earth Observation data workflows. He holds a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Electronic Automation from NKUA, where he is currently pursuing a PhD focused on edge-cloud orchestration. He is a co-founding partner at Division by Zero P.C. and contributes to major European research projects such as EO4EU, TRACE and HYPER-AI. His work emphasizes interoperable architectures, workflow automation, and user-centric platform design. He is also studying Biology to expand his interdisciplinary perspective.

Vyron Korpas Kamarianos is a Solution Architect and Senior Research Engineer specializing in edge computing and distributed systems for large-scale environmental and Earth Observation data workflows. He holds a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Electronic... Show more

Ankit Pathak

Ankit Pathak

Ankit Pathak is a Senior Data Scientist at Meta with over a decade of experience applying advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to solve high-impact business problems across startups and large-scale organizations. He currently leads data science efforts for Instagram's App Platforms team, where he has built foundational infrastructure and productivity metrics supporting a large team of engineers, driving meaningful improvements in engineering efficiency.
Throughout his career at Meta, Ankit has worked across Finance, Monetization/Ads, and Platform Engineering, delivering impactful results such as developing machine learning models for invoice anomaly and fraud detection, and pioneering geo-experiments in partnership with Google that helped justify increased investment in advertiser acquisition. His work spans causal inference, experimentation, and lifetime value modeling, consistently translating complex data science into actionable business strategy.
Prior to Meta, Ankit held senior data science and analytics leadership roles at Walmart Labs and Tredence Inc., where he managed sizable analytics teams, led major analytics initiatives for Walmart's website and app redesign, and was recognized with internal awards for his contributions. He also co-founded and served as CTO of Adferns Media, a programmatic marketing startup that he helped scale from the ground up.
Ankit holds a dual Bachelor's and Master's degree (5-year program) in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad. He is skilled in Python, R, SQL, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Snowflake, GCP), and a range of visualization and analytics tools, with deep expertise in experimentation, causal inference, and marketing/product analytics.

Ankit Pathak is a Senior Data Scientist at Meta with over a decade of experience applying advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to solve high-impact business problems across startups and large-scale organizations. He currently leads da... Show more

Mayelin Stefania Aguilar Vásquez

Mayelin Stefania Aguilar Vásquez

Final-semester Electronic Engineering student passionate about innovation, aerospace technology, and software development. Creator of a digital model of the STRaND-1 project, with an interest in artificial intelligence and interactive visualization.

Final-semester Electronic Engineering student passionate about innovation, aerospace technology, and software development. Creator of a digital model of the STRaND-1 project, with an interest in artificial intelligence and interactive visualization. Show more

Joshua Palmer

Joshua Palmer

Dr. Palmer has presented and published on psychiatric topics across the lifespan including screening for adolescent vaping use, adolescent substance use, opioid use disorder treatments, neurobiological perspectives of mental illness, and methods to reduce medication use for behavioral disturbances in dementia. Today, he continues to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment delivery of psychiatric and substance use treatment.

Clinically, Dr. Palmer currently practices as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at P.K. Mullick and Associates, treating adult patients for general psychiatric conditions, substance use disorders, and severe persistent mental illness such as schizophrenia. Currently, Dr. Palmer’s clinical interest is using esketamine for treatment resistant depression.

Dr. Palmer has presented and published on psychiatric topics across the lifespan including screening for adolescent vaping use, adolescent substance use, opioid use disorder treatments, neurobiological perspectives of mental illness, and methods to r... Show more

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