Giuseppe Ciaburro holds a PhD in environmental technical physics and two master's degrees. His research is on machine learning applications in the study of urban sound environments. He works at the Built Environment Control Laboratory, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (Italy). He has over 15 years' experience in programming Python, R, and MATLAB, first in the field of combustion, and then in acoustics and noise control. He has several publications to his credit.

Doug Ortiz is an experienced enterprise Cloud, big data, data analytics, and solutions architect who has designed, developed, re-engineered, and integrated enterprise solutions. His other expertise is in Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, business intelligence, Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL databases, and SharePoint, to mention a few.

He is the founder of Illustris, LLC, and can be reached at [email protected].

Rich Pizzo has many years of experience in the design and development of software and systems. He was a senior architect and project lead, especially in the realm of financial engineering and trading systems. He was the chief technologist at two companies. His knowledge and expertise in digital electronics left its mark in the software domain, as well in providing heterogeneous solutions to tough optimization problems. He has come up with many unique solutions for maximizing computing performance, utilizing Altera FPGAs and the Quartus development environment and test suite.