The author would like to thank all his current and former colleagues at General Electric (GE), who have inspired and taught him so much over the years. Particularly his mentors – Ravi Salagame, Eric Haynes, Anthony Maiello, and Wesley Mukai. He would like to thank team members from several artificial intelligence projects who helped invigorate his interest in this field – Nidhi Naithani, Shruti Mittal, Ranjitha Kurup, S. Ritika, Nikhil Naphade, and Scott Nelson. Also, the excellent CTO team from GE Transportation – Aaron Mitti, Mark Kraeling, Shalinda Ranasinghe, Ninad Kulkarni, Anatoly Melamud, Ankoor Patel, Richard Baker, and Gokulnath Chidambaram. The author also thanks his friends from Goa Engineering college and Peoples High school.

The author would like to immensely thank his editor, Kezia Endsley, for all her patience and expertise. She was absolutely amazing helping structure the content of the book and making it more readable. Kezia’s attention to detail was second to none and she was able to point out key issues that helped make the writing better. The author would like to thank his technical editor, Kunal Mittal, for sharing his wealth of knowledge to greatly improve content of the book. The author would like to thank Devon Lewis at Wiley for initiating this project and providing his valuable guidance. Also, the author would like to thank all the great folks at Wiley who helped get this book to market – particularly his production editor Athiyappan Lalith Kumar. The author would like to thank his mom Ranjana for being his pillar of strength and his wonderful kids, Varada and Yug. Last but not least, the author thanks his wife Swati for being the source of inspiration for writing this book. She is the one who put the thought in his head and motivated him throughout completion of this work.