Dr. Vahid Mirjalili is a software engineer/data scientist, currently working toward his PhD in computer science at Michigan State University. His research at the Integrated Pattern Recognition and Biometrics (i-PRoBE) lab involves attribute classification of face images from large image datasets.  Furthermore, he teaches Python programming, as well as computing concepts for data analysis and databases. With his specialty in data mining, he is very interested in predictive modeling and getting insights from data. He is also a Python developer and likes to contribute to the open source community. Furthermore, he enjoys making tutorials for different areas of data science and computer algorithms, which can be found in his GitHub repository (http://github.com/mirjalil/DataScience).