Himan Abdollahpouri is currently a postdoc at Northwestern University. Most recently, he received his PhD in the area of machine learning and recommender systems from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His particular area of focus is the multiple stakeholder recommendation paradigms. 

Faraz Abidi built a bot, alongside Bryan Wang and Jon Wu, to make money on the NFT market by using High Frequency Trading techniques.

Faraz's Twitter: @fzfromcupertino

Courtney Greer is a Program Manager at Microsoft on the Commercial Software Engineering team. She is a certified Scrum Master and a Certified Product Owner.

Ardavan Farahvash is a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying theoretical and computational chemistry. His research involves the fields of statistical mechanics and machine learning applied to chemistry. 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ardavan-farahvash-512a85bb/

Zaheer Mohiuddin is the co-founder of Levels.fyi, a startup determined to empower professionals to make better career decisions. Zaheer speaks about compensation transparency, negotiating job offers, and his journey building a side hustle into a full-fledged, profitable business. 

Levels.fyi: https://www.levels.fyi/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zmohiuddin/

Akshay Agrawal is a PhD candidate at Stanford studying convex optimization. Before that, he was a software engineer at Google, working on the world’s most famous machine learning framework, TensorFlow. He also interned at a self-driving car company called Aurora. 

Personal Website: https://www.akshayagrawal.com/

CVXPY: https://www.cvxpy.org

TensorFlow: tensorflow.org

Twitter: https://twitter.com/akshaykagrawal

Shane Rosse is a senior software engineer at Emjay where he works on building the technological infrastructure for the cannabis startup. He also runs a consulting business where he helps clients build anything and everything software-related. Before Emjay, Shane helped build products at Griddy and TicketMaster. Shane graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in computer engineering. 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanerosse/

Harsheen Khandpur is a product manager at Global Data Consortium(GDC), a fintech startup located in North Carolina, where she’s helped build key product features. Before that she worked as a software engineer at the same startup after graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a degree in computer engineering. 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsheen-khandpur-621674107/

Bryan Wang is a software engineer working on exciting projects. Most recently, he was the first Machine Learning engineer at Bill.com which he joined after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in mathematics. 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-wang-564447169/