Dr. PKS Prakash has pursued his PhD in industrial and system engineering at Wisconsin-Madison, US. He defended his second PhD in engineering from University of Warwick, UK. He has provided data science support to numerous leading companies in healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and e-commerce domains on a wide range of business problems related to predictive and prescriptive modeling, virtual metrology, predictive maintenance, root cause analysis, process simulations, fraud detection, early warning systems, and so on. Currently, he is working as the Vice President and Practice Lead for data science at Dream11. Dream11 offers the world's largest fantasy cricket, football, and kabaddi games of skill. He has published widely in research areas of operational research and management, soft computing tools, and advanced algorithms in the manufacturing and healthcare domains in leading journals such as IEEE-Trans, EJOR, and IJPR, among others. He has contributed a chapter in Evolutionary Computing in Advanced Manufacturing and edited an issue of Intelligent Approaches to Complex Systems.

Achyutuni Sri Krishna Rao has an MS in enterprise business analytics (data science) from National University of Singapore. He has worked on a wide range of data science problems in the domain of manufacturing, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. He is an R enthusiast and loves to contribute to the open source community. His passions include freelancing, technical blogs (http://rcodeeasy.blogspot.com) and marathon runs. Currently he works as a data science consultant at a leading consulting firm.